Pirates of the Caribbean left Keira Knightley feeling like ‘an object of lust’ | Films | Entertainment

Knightley admitted in a new conversation with Harper’s Bazaar that playing Elizabeth Swann was somewhat detrimental to her career.

“She was the object of everybody’s lust,” she explained. “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.”

In previous years, Knightley had become a household name after starring in the football movie Bend it like Beckham. As a result, she was displayed as a rough-and-tumble actor. When she hit the screen as Elizabeth, she was prim, proper, and in full renaissance regalia. After that, though, she met with new problems.

Knightley said: “I felt very constrained. I felt very stuck.”