Keira Knightley has said that while she is still incredibly grateful for the role of Elizabeth Swann, at the time, her newfound fame proved to be “a great curse” for her.
THE Keira Knightley forced to take a year off after starring in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Love Actually’.
THE actor he was only 17 years old when he appeared in the first film “Pirates of the Caribbean – The Curse of the Black Pearl». In the same year, he also starred in the hit movie Love Actually.
However, the star has admitted that all of this sudden fame was quite “traumatic” for her at the time.
Speaking about the trauma left by this event, Knightley told Variety in an earlier interview: “I found it quite terrifying. I’m not an outgoing person so I couldn’t handle all this fame. It’s been a strange year. It is a very precarious age, especially for women. You are still a child in a way. It was traumatic, but it defined the rest of my career.”
The ‘Boston Strangler’ actress admitted her character Elizabeth Swann was ‘cast’ as a sex object, despite her innate ‘boyish’ demeanor alongside her co-stars Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.
THE Knightley tried to escape sexist typecasting, resulting in a “very difficult five years” from 2003 to 2008, during which she starred in the films Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, which left her feeling “quite weak” about the course of her career.
“I felt very limited. I felt very stuck. So the roles that followed were about trying to get away from that.” he added.
The actress even revealed that in 2008, she had to undergo hypnotherapy to avoid having a panic attack on the BAFTA red carpet, and was later diagnosed with PTSD.
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