Keira Knightley says she felt ‘caged’ after Pirates Of The Caribbean film role
ok.co.ukKeira Knightley said she felt “caged,” “constrained” and “very stuck” after being in blockbuster film series Pirates Of The Caribbean.
The 37-year-old British actress, who has been twice nominated for Oscars, starred in the first film Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl in 2003 – alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom – as Elizabeth Swann, along with three sequels.
Her character goes through a transition from daughter of a gentlemen to pirate while pursuing a romance with Bloom’s character Will Turner, a blacksmith’s apprentice, until her last outing in 2017’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
She told Harper’s Bazaar UK: “(Elizabeth) was the object of everybody’s lust, not that she doesn’t have a lot of fight in her, but it was interesting coming from being really tomboyish to getting projected as quite the opposite. “I felt very constrained, I felt very stuck, so the roles afterwards were about trying to break out of that. “I didn’t have a sense of how to articulate it.
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