Keira Knightley opens up on financial aspect of teenage fame

Keira Knightley is opening up about her experience of teenage fame in Hollywood.

In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Knightley talked about the financial advantage of becoming famous in teenage through Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Love Actually.

“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,” the Pride and the Prejudice star said.

“Having said that, I wouldn’t have the financial stability or the career that I do now without that period,” Knightley continued.

She reflected: “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.”

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

Keira Knightley was just 18 years old when she starred in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Elizabeth Swann and Love Actually in 2003. She also starred in two back-to-back Pirates sequels: 2006’s Dead Man’s Chest and 2007’s At World’s End.