Keira Knightley has a great film career, although it is not surprising that many people remember her for her participation in pirates of the caribbean saga. She was the relentless Elizabeth Swann in the first three installments, and she even made a small appearance in the fifth installment released in 2017, which took her to the pinnacle of international fame. Of course, this could have affected his career.
The actress made her franchise debut in the first installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Pearl Negro, playing the daughter of the governor of Port Royal who falls madly in love with a blacksmith who ends up being one of the most notorious pirates on the seven seas. He did it in 2003, with the help of a few cinema companions of the caliber of Orlando Bloom there Johnny Depp.
Now, in an interview he gave to the magazine Harper’s Bazaar, said that it was when she was in this project that she began to realize the expectations that were placed on her. And it is that, despite having played previous roles, His entry into the saga that would revolutionize the Disney of the time was a radical change.
“I had a nice coming of age, a hard landing because of the experience of stardom at a very young age. There’s a fun place for women to sit, in public, and I was never comfortable with it. It was a big shake,” reports for the media. Additionally, she points out that the roles she played displayed a femininity in ways she felt unfamiliar with and for what she felt she was being judged for projecting through her characters.
“She was the object of everyone’s lust”, account, something that can be seen in early films. Despite the fact that his arc ends as one of the fiercest and most important pirates in the saga, it is true that there are points in the film in which this is reflected: “It’s not that I don’t have a lot of difficulty. But it was interesting to go from being a tomboy to being thrown exactly the opposite. I felt very limited. I felt very trapped. the roles tried to get out of that”, confess.
According to his account, the period between 2003 and 2008—a window that includes the trilogy of Pirates of the Caribbean— considers it “very complicated”; and although he appeared in films as well known as love in fact oh Atonement, the experience of feeling this way made him feel “utterly helpless”. In fact, he says it like this: “I had no idea how to articulate it. I felt like I was locked into something I didn’t understand.”
She reveals she was “incredibly hard” on herself, because it is not considered good enough. However, she would like to recover part of her 22 years. Knightley quit the movies when she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, which she says was the cost of all the pressure she underwent at such a young age. She has since returned to acting with roles in more independent films, and was even nominated for an Oscar.