Keira Knightley reveals why she left the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise

Keira Knightley is out promoting her new movie, ‘Last Night’. Last night she looked gorgeous as she stopped by the Jon Stewart show.
She recently sat down with USA Today and explained why she chose to leave the hugely successful ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise.
Pirates, “was an amazing experience,” Knightley says, but, “I was 17 when I started and 22 by the time the last one came out. It was a considerable chunk of time. It was extraordinary but I think, what is that, five years of (my) life?”
And, with the rigorous shooting schedule for Pirates 2 and 3, “doing it solidly for two years at that time was definitely enough. And I mostly just wanted to do something else.”
“The thing about acting is, it does require life, because you have to have things to draw from,” says Knightley, adding that after a slew of movies including The Duchess, Atonement and the Pirates franchise, “I very much felt like I’d hit a brick wall and was regurgitating as opposed to actually finding anything new.”
After taking some time off for “travel, reading” and some normalcy, Knightley has been up to a bounty of other projects, including Last Night, co-starring Avatar’s Sam Worthington; The Children’s Hour, the play she just wrapped with Elisabeth Moss in London; psychoanalytical film A Dangerous Method with Viggo Mortenson (due later this year); a pairing with Steve Carell in dark comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and a possible upcoming turn in Anna Karenina.
That said, the willowy Brit is still excited for On Stranger Tides. “I can’t wait to see it,” she says. “I’m sure it will be lovely.”
I’m glad she’s got a lineup of movies coming out! Last movie I saw her in, ‘Never Let Me Go’ I didn’t like at all (too damn depressing!).

















































