Yahoo Lifestyle Orlando Bloom Says He 'Understands' Keira Knightley’s Mixed Feelings About the “Pirates of the Caribbean” Films
Knightley has spoken about the complicated impact the Disney blockbusters had on her career
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Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley in 2003's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'Orlando Bloom is weighing in on Keira Knightley’s recent comments about the impact the Pirates of the Caribbean movies had on her career.
“It was such a huge moment in time that is almost like … it feels almost like another lifetime now,” Bloom, 48, said of the blockbuster Disney franchise in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “But it certainly was unique and, you know, I’m always grateful.”
Bloom starred in the first three Pirates movies as Will Turner alongside Knightley as Elizabeth Swann and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. He and Knightley sat out the fourth film, 2011’s On Stranger Tides, only returning for cameo appearances in 2017’s Dead Men Tell No Tales.
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Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom in 2003's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'“I definitely understand where Keira was coming from, and she does wonderful things,” Bloom told Entertainment Weekly of his former costar’s recent comments. “I have a lot of positive takeaways.”
Late last year, while promoting her Netflix series Black Doves, Knightley, 39, expressed ambivalence about her experience starring in the Pirates movies, telling The Times that she felt the franchise “was making and breaking” her at the same time.
“I was seen as s--- because of them,” she explained, “and yet because they did so well I was given the opportunity to do the films that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for.”
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Keira Knightley in 2003's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curst of the Black Pearl'Prior to starring in 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the then-18-year-old actress had largely appeared on British TV series and in small film roles. But the success of the Pirates franchise shot her to stardom, and in the years that followed she earned an Academy Award nomination for her starring role in 2005’s Pride and Prejudice.
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At the same time, subsequent Pirates sequels were panned by critics.
“They were the most successful films I’ll ever be a part of and they were the reason that I was taken down publicly,” Knightley told The Times. “So they’re a very confused place in my head.”
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