Keira Knightley Says Her Success as a Teen Star ‘Came at a Big Cost’ Personally

Keira Knightley is reviewing her very early successes in the movie market.

In a brand-new meeting with The Los Angeles Times, released Thursday,Dec 5, the starlet, 39, discussed exactly how ending up being an outbreak celebrity in her teen years, many thanks to films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Bend It Like Beckham and Love Actually, established her “up for life.”

“It’s very brutal to have your privacy taken away in your teenage years, early 20s, and to be put under that scrutiny at a point when you are still growing,” she claimed.

“Having said that, I wouldn’t have the financial stability or the career that I do now without that period,” Knightley proceeded. “I had a five-year period between the age of 17 and 21-ish, and I’m never going to have that kind of success again. It totally set me up for life. Did it come at a cost? Yes, it did.”

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“It came at a big cost. Knowing the cost, could I, in all good conscience, say to my kid, you should do that? No,” she included. “But am I grateful for it? Yes. But then that’s life, isn’t it? Luckily, my kids are completely uninterested.”

Knightley was simply 18 years of ages when she starred in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Love Actually in 2003.

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She took place to star in 2 back-to-back Pirates follows up: 2006’s Dead Man’s Chest and 2007’s At World’s End.

Knightley played the duty of Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean, in addition to Juliet inLove Actually

Diving extra right into the individual price of her success, Knightley disclosed that she was a sufferer of tracking at a young age.

“I didn’t think it was okay at the time,” she informedThe Los Angeles Times “I was very clear on it being absolutely shocking.”

She included, “There was an amount of gaslighting to be told by a load of men that ‘you wanted this.’ It was rape speak. You know, ‘This is what you deserve.’ It was a very violent, misogynistic atmosphere.”

“They very specifically meant I wanted to be stalked by men,” she claimed. “Whether that was stalking because somebody was mentally ill, or because people were earning money from it — it felt the same to me. It was a brutal time to be a young woman in the public eye.”

The celebrity took place to claim that social media sites has actually likewise added to advertising public reproaching in the direction of girls. “A lot of teenage girls don’t survive that,” she claimed.