By She’s got several Oscar nominations, yet for some people Keira Knightley will always be most remembered for her breakout role at 17 as Elizabeth Swann in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
The actress has essentially avoided franchise films since those movies, one rare exception being the widely panned “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”. Part of the reason for her stance on this ties back to her time working on the ‘Pirates’ films.
Speaking with The Times, Knightley says with the fame from that franchise came a lot of criticism from the media regarding her appearance in those films, including unfounded speculation of an eating disorder. As a result she has a strange relationship with those films:
“It’s a funny thing when you have something that was making and breaking you at the same time. I was seen as s— because of them, and yet because they did so well I was given the opportunity to do the films that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for.
They were the most successful films I’ll ever be a part of, and they were the reason that I was taken down publicly. So they’re a very confused place in my head.”
The other reason is due to the work that comes with those giant films, saying that the “hours are insane. It’s years of your life” as well as the lack of any control: “you have no control over where you’re filming, how long you’re filming, what you’re filming.”
Those first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies were all major successes at the global box office.
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