Being a teenager is already a lot. Your brain is not fully formed, your skin is doing things nobody asked for, every emotion feels like the end of the world, and every mistake feels permanent. It is, by design, one of the most disorienting periods of a human life. Now imagine doing all of that while the entire planet is watching…
Keira Knightley knows exactly what that feels like. The British actress was just 17 years old when Pirates of the Caribbean turned her into one of the most recognizable faces on Earth overnight. This is a level of fame that most adults would struggle to process, let alone a teenager still figuring out who she was. In a candid interview, Knightley got remarkably honest about it all.