The first film, released in 2003, was a critical and box office triumph which starred Johnny Depp as the colourful pirate who rescues the beautiful governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann – played by Keira – from the villainous Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his cohorts. “We have got these fantastic sets, it’s pretty much exactly the same crew with a couple of additions, the same cast, same director, same writers, same producers obviously, so it really is like we never finished doing the first one and we have just continued.” “It felt like the last two years had never happened and we’ve been working on Pirates the entire time,” she notes. Knightley filmed Pirates 2 back to back with much of Pirates 3 and admits that it has been a long, long haul. They have done a marvelous job and they’ve worked so hard on it.” “To be able to have such a brilliant backdrop to work with is such a help. The fantastic set is a great help for all the actors, she says, before praising the design team and the hard working crew who built it. So today, when I’m not required for a scene, I’ll be working with the swords.” “Yes, I do a lot more sword fighting these days and we have to work on them to get them perfect. And we all adore him.”Įarlier in the day, she had been working on a complex sword fighting sequence in preparation for a scene later in the week. “Including Chow Yun-Fat who is an Asian pirate and he’s absolutely wonderful.
“And on Pirates three we have some new faces as well,” explains Keira. She beams a mega watt smile and is clearly enjoying the challenge and being reunited with Verbinski, Orlando Bloom – who plays her lover, Will Turner – and indeed Johnny Depp, who returns as the lovable pirate Captain Jack Sparrow. “And without giving too much away, Will Turner and Elizabeth are being chased by a whole gang of not very nice people. “It’s part of the opening sequence of the third film,” explains Keira.
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She will be running, at full pelt, through the alleyways and across bridges in the seedy red lantern district of old Singapore which, for filmmaking purposes, has been painstakingly recreated on a massive Universal Studios sound stage in Hollywood. She may still don a corset, much like she did in the Pirates franchise, often and enjoy playing in period pieces, but the roles she is taking in them are far more involved and the characters are more interesting.As director Gore Verbinski lines up a shot which will form part of the dramatic opening of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End the eagerly awaited third film in the hugely popular series, Keira Knightley takes a brief moment to prepare for the physical challenge ahead. It was always getting to do those characters that are complicated, interesting, strange.Įven though Keira Knightley basically still looks like she did when she appeared on Pirates of the Caribbean, she has transformed from a teenager to a mature and seasoned adult actress. But it was never what I wanted from the profession.
I still say I understand how unbelievably lucky I was to be in a position to get to be in those incredibly big blockbusters. And actually a lot of the scripts that I am being sent are the kind of incredibly juicy, really interesting, multi-faceted women. You know, I’m now playing the roles that I dreamed I would be playing when I was a kid. The actress recently spoke on the podcast Chanel Connects, and revealed that although she is beyond grateful to have been in big-budget films, her actress dreams are being made now by playing more complex characters. Even though these roles would be dream parts for a lot of actors, Knightley prefers the gigs she’s getting now.
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Plus she was even in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace at 14. Keira Knightley played in some huge films at a very young age, her roles in the first Pirates of the Caribbean and Love, Actually happening when she was only 18.
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