Total Film also spoke in detail to Daniel Craig, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, and more about No Time To Die. But when it got to 2 and 3 after that one had made like a billion dollars or whatever it was, I think that’s when it was suddenly a very different thing. No one was particularly going, “This is going to be a big hit.” So actually, relatively speaking, it was quite a chilled-out set. While Keira Knightley's Sabe only appeared in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, she went on to have more adventures on the page.Her story continued by investigating Padme's death, and eventually.
we got left quite alone, because Johnny Depp hadn’t had a commercial success, and a pirate movie hadn’t worked in probably generations, and it was based on a Disney theme park ride. That’s not where I thought my career was going to be.
I didn’t anticipate that that would mean that I then would just have an amazing career in Hollywood films afterwards. I think I just felt like I was really lucky. While Knightley has gone on to receive widespread international acclaim for her work on the screen and stage, it should be noted that she actually got her start in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as one of Padmé Amidala’s handmaids. Speaking to our sister publication Total Film. But I don’t really remember that feeling. We're talking about Knightley's role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in which she played the body double to Padm Amidala (Natalie Portman). I know I said that I felt like I was going to get fired. The problem is, I don’t really know what I remember, and what I just talked about. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a 1999 space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.It was the fourth film to be released in the Star Wars saga and the first in terms of internal chronology.
Keira previously admitted she has ''chilled out an awful lot'' in recent years, and decided to take on her latest film because she ''wanted more positive vibrations'' in her life after playing a string of troubled characters in films, such as 'Anna Karenina.The first Pirates, I was 17. There was a very long time when were all, 'Well you're a (expletive) actress and you're anorexic and people hate you' which, for a teenager or somebody in their early 20s, is a very strange thing.'' edition of Elle magazine: ''I don't regret it - I wouldn't do my life any differently, but having lived through it. Natalie Portman, who played The Queen of Naboo ended up dubbing over her lines. That's what that time of life is about and we should do that privately, one million trillion zillion percent.''īut the brunette beauty, who is married to The Klaxons rocker James Righton, insists she has no regrets about becoming an actress at a young age. Knightley played Sabé, Padmé Amidalas handmaiden and decoy in 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. You should be going out and getting unbelievably drunk, getting into ridiculous situations, making mistakes. Knightley's costume from Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999) on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts After getting an agent at age six, Knightley began working in commercials and small television roles. She added: ''Teenage years should be done privately. I would 150 million trillion percent be totally discouraging of doing anything like that.''
The 'Begin Again' actress, who landed a role in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' when she was 14, admits she would ''100 percent'' discourage her future children from following in her footsteps because she hated growing up in the spotlight.Īsked if she would encourage a daughter to carve out a career in Hollywood, the 29-year-old British star said: ''Oh, 100 percent, I'd absolutely tell her not to. Keira Knightley pities teenage celebrities that can't get ''unbelievably drunk'' and make mistakes in private.