

But it was interesting coming from being really tomboyish to getting projected as quite the opposite. “Not that she doesn’t have a lot of fight in her. “ was the object of everybody’s lust,” Knightley continued.


“There’s a funny place where women are meant to sit, publicly, and I never felt comfortable with that. “I had quite an entrance into adult life, an extreme landing because of the experience of fame at a very early age,” Knightley said. Keira Knightley was only 17, going on 18, when she became an international star with 2003’s “ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.” But in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar U.K., the Oscar nominee said playing an object of desire like Elizabeth Swann at such a young age left her feeling “stuck” and “constrained” in the industry.
