- Title: A Life in Pictures 2018: Keira Knightley on Pirates of the Caribbean
- Date: 17th December 2018
- Summary: A Life in Pictures
- Description:Keira Knightley was interviewed by Jason Solomons for BAFTA's A Life in Pictures series at their Piccadilly headquarters in London, U.K. on Friday 17 December 2018. I remember going up for Pirates of the Caribbean and again I was auditioning so it wasn?t a dead cert but obviously it very much put me on that radar. JS: Even though you?d done Star Wars and fallen in front of Ewen McGregor off a golf? KK: I don?t think anyone noticed me in Star Wars but yes I had done it. [Laughs] JS: They did notice you in Pirates of the Caribbean. KK: They definitely did, yes. JS: Which was huge. And there were four, five? KK: I think there might have been five now. I think I was in three with a tiny bit in another one, but yes?it was very much sort of I was seventeen when I did Pirates of the Caribbean. I think Bend It Like Beckham had only just come out and I auditioned and again, going back to that thing of it?s really interesting when you don?t care or you don?t think you have a chance in auditions in general; I think auditions are very strange things. I just remember being very angry at the idea that I had to go for the audition for Pirates of the Caribbean because I was never going to get a Hollywood film. It was so absurd. And I remember the day I went up for the audition I was late, there was a problem with the tubes and I was late and I?m one of those people that?s perennially early, I?ve got to be early, I can?t handle being late. So I was in a bad mood because I was late and I just thought ?well this is stupid, I?m now feeling bad and I?m never going to get it and this is really stupid,? and I think I was just angry in the audition and weirdly it worked. [Laughter] JS: Well Elizabeth Swann is quite angry. KK: She?s quite angry, isn?t she? Yes. JS: Being tied up a lot. KK: Well exactly, and in corsets. You would be angry wouldn?t you? JS: Yes. Although nice shooting location. KK: Lovely, yes, don?t be angry in the Caribbean.
- Collection: BAFTA
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:BAFTA
- Keywords: BAFTA; British Academy of Film & Television; A Life in Pictures; 2018; Keira Knightley; 195 Piccadilly; Celebrity; Event; Arrives; Showbiz; Arts; Entertainment; Pirates of the Caribbean; acting
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Transmission Date:17/12/2018
- Decade: 2010s