Keira Knightley talks about the privacy violations and personal scrutiny she faced due to her starring role in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' while she was only 17. She acknowledges both the career benefits and personal costs of her early fame.
Keira Knightley talked about the disturbing comments and personal violations she was forced to endure following her starring role in Pirates of the Caribbean. In the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Knightley played Elizabeth Swann, the adventurous daughter of a British Governor who becomes a pirate and partakes in various adventures with characters like Jack Sparrow and Will Turner.
It’s very brutal to have your privacy taken away in your teenage years, early 20s, and to be put under that scrutiny at a point when you are still growing. Having said that, I wouldn’t have the financial stability or the career that I do now without that period. I had a five-year period between the age of 17 and 21-ish, and I’m never going to have that kind of success again. It totally set me up for life. Did it come at a cost? Yes, it did. It came at a big cost.
My jaw dropped at the time. I didn’t think it was OK at the time. I was very clear on it being absolutely shocking. There was an amount of gaslighting to be told by a load of men that 'you wanted this.' It was rape speak. You know, 'This is what you deserve.' It was a very violent, misogynistic atmosphere. They very specifically meant I wanted to be stalked by men.
Related Pirates of the Caribbean: How Old Will & Elizabeth Are In Each Movie Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner were the lead couple in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and here's how old they were through the film series.
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