The name of Keira Knightley He was already resonating among movie fans thanks to his participation in the funny ‘I want to be like Beckham’, but it is clear that it was ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’ the film that skyrocketed his popularity to infinity. However, the actress has now revealed to Harper’s Bazaar that “I never felt comfortable“in the saga starring Johnny Depp.
Let us remember that Knightley had not even turned 18 when he began shooting the film directed by gore verbinskiso for her it was “quite an entry into adulthood, a hard landing due to the experience of fame at a very young age“. In addition, the actress has not hesitated to criticize the sexualization that her character suffered in the franchise:
Elizabeth Swann was the object of everyone’s lust. It’s not that she’s not very feisty. But it was interesting to go from being a tomboy to being projected as the complete opposite. I felt very limited. I felt very stuck. So the roles I did afterward tried to break away from that. I didn’t know how to articulate it. I felt caged in something I didn’t understand.
“I was never good enough“
This led her to feel very pressured, since she considered that she was never good enough, so she took an exhausting pace of life which ended up having its consequences:
I was incredibly hard on myself. It was never good enough. He had absolute determination. She was very ambitious. I was very motivated. I was always trying to get better and better and better, which is an exhausting way to live life. exhausting. I’m in awe of my 22-year-old self, because I wish I had a little more of her. And it’s only by ceasing to be like that that I realize how extraordinary she was. But she comes at a cost: Exhaustion.
The actress ended up leaving the franchise after ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At the end of the world’, but ended up reappearing by surprise briefly in ‘Salazar’s Revenge’. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any subsequent film that took up what was raised there, and there are serious doubts that the sixth installment, which they’ve been working hard on, will address it.