Keira Knightley was simply 17 years outdated when she shot the very first Pirates of the Caribbean film. Although the movie was an enormous success, the younger actress struggled with the scathing critiques that focused her efficiency as Elizabeth Swann. While talking with Rosamund Pike for a Vanity Fair function concerning the twentieth anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, Knightley even stated that Pirates of the Caribbean made audiences view her as a “horrible actress.“
This made issues all of the extra complicated when he obtained an Oscar nomination for her work on Pride & Prejudice.
“Pirates of the Caribbean had already come out, but I think in the public consciousness, I was seen as a terrible actress,” she stated. “But I had this phenomenally large success with Pirates. And I believe [Pride & Prejudice] was the primary one which was a phenomenally large success, however was additionally critically acclaimed. So I keep in mind it popping out possibly the identical 12 months, possibly across the identical time as Pirates 2. And I received the worst critiques ever for that, after which additionally being nominated for an Oscar on the identical time—it was, in my 21-year-old head, fairly complicated.“
Knightley appeared within the first three installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and later made a cameo in Dead Men Tell No Tales. Regarding any future appearances, it doesn’t sound probably as Knighley nonetheless has a variety of blended emotions about her time on the sequence. “They were the most successful films I’ll ever be a part of and they were the reason that I was taken down publicly,” she stated final 12 months. “So they’re a really confused place in my head. The hours are insane. It’s years of your life, you haven’t any management over the place you’re filming, how lengthy you’re filming, what you’re filming.“
A sixth installment of the franchise has been within the works for some time, nevertheless it’s nonetheless unclear if will probably be a correct sequel, a reboot, or one thing in between. When it involves Johnny Depp’s involvement as Captain Jack Sparrow, a report final 12 months acknowledged that “Nothing has been ruled out.” It’s additionally been stated that franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer is creating two variations of the script: one that features Depp and one other that doesn’t.