"During a chat with Harper's Bazaar, Knightley admitted to feeling "stuck" at a young age after playing the object of male desire in the Pirates films. "[Elizabeth Swann] 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," she said. "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. It very much felt like I was caged in a thing I didn’t understand.”
"Knightley had barely turned 18 when 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl became a huge hit and made her an international star. The actor admits that the sudden fame was a bit of a shock when it all happened. "I had quite an entrance into adult life, an extreme landing because of the experience of fame at a very early age," she said. "There’s a funny place where women are meant to sit, publicly, and I never felt comfortable with that. It was a big jolt."
I think a good number of attractive young women and girls feel the same. They get more sexual attention than they feel comfortable with, and they don't feel like they're getting any other kind of attention, and feel like nobody actually understands or values them.
Of course most of them have a much easier time articulating these feelings, but I never got the sense that Knightley is all that bright.
Lol, lots of people do. That's why I said I am in the minority group with that opinion 😊😋 I think she's a fine actress though. I loved her in Atonement.
That's funny because she was the second prettiest person on screen. Say what you will, Johnny Depp outperformed everyone in those movies and he looked great.