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Actress Keira Knightley became a household name with films such asBend It Like Beckham, Pride and Prejudice,andAtonement. She also gained international recognition for her role as Elizabeth Swann in thePirates of the Caribbeanfranchise. She starred in three films of the franchise along with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.
Knightley has mentioned many times how endearing it was to work with Depp. She starred with the actor in three films of thePiratesfranchise and even made a cameo in the fifth film. However, the actress reportedly refused to work in a film that also starred Lily-Rose Depp, Johnny Depp’s daughter, unless some of her demands were met.
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Keira Knightley And Johnny Depp In The Pirates Of The Caribbean Films
While she had a small role inStar Wars: The Phantom Menace,Keira Knightleyhad her first blockbuster in the form of the swashbuckling adventure filmPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The film saw her play the role of Elizabeth Swann, the daughter of a governor, who gets drawn into the pirate world ofJohnny Depp’sCaptain Jack Sparrow.
The film was a surprising hit, earning over $654 million against a $140 million budget. The success of the films spawned two sequels that were filmed back to back, namely,Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man’s ChestandPirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. While the other two were not as well-received as the first film, they were still successful. The arc of Knightley’s Elizabeth and Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner was complete withAt World’s End.
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Knightley has mentioned multiple times about the joy she had while working with Johnny Depp in the franchise. When she starred in the first film, she was just eighteen years old and was tasting fame for the first time. In an interview with IGN in 2003, she said,
“He’s just great. It’s really weird because he’s a huge star of Hollywood, but he’s such a nice bloke. We’d be over at the craft services wagon and he’d make a cup of tea and we’d have a chat and have a giggle, and do a scene then. He’s just really, really, really lovely.”
The actress even returned to play Elizabeth in the fifth film of thePiratesfranchise,Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. She also starred along with Depp’s daughter,The Idolactress Lily-Rose Depp in the black comedySilent Night. However, Knightley did want to introduce some changes in the film before saying yes.
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Keira Knightley’s Demands ForSilent Night
Actress Keira Knightley had a reunion of sorts with the Johnny Depp family, as she starred along with Lily-Rose Depp in the black comedySilent Night. Talking about working with her, Knightley said,
“I think I met her once on Pirates as a 3-year-old, and then I met her after that because we both worked for Chanel, so I met her again at a Chanel event. She’s a great woman and I’m impressed by the choices that she’s made as far as her work. She’s making really interesting, strange films!”
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Silent Nightdeals with the concept of motherhood in an apocalyptic setting. In the film, Lily-Rode Depp plays the role of Sophie, who is pregnant and has to decide whether she wants to take the Government-issued cyanide pills as an apocalypse is about to strike. Knightley wanted to make sure that the subject matter was handled with utmost care. Hence, she made sure that a female director was part of the film. In an interview with The Guardian, she said,
“If I was making a story that was about that journey of motherhood and body acceptance, I feel like, I’m sorry, but that would have to be with a female filmmaker. I don’t have an absolute ban, but I kind of do with men.”
Knightley made sure that Camille Griffin, who wrote the film, was the director of the film. Keira Knightley has been very vocal about the representation of women in film and the harassment women face every day, especially after the #MeToo era. She has voiced concerns over how she is only offered either motherly or flirtatious roles in films and has also mentioned that she will not be performing a s*x scene if it is directed by a man.
Source:The Guardian
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
