Keira Knightley opens up about her first Oscar nomination.
The 40-year-old actress was nominated for Best Actress in 2006 for her work in Pride and Prejudice, when she was just 20 years old.
In a new interview looking back at the movie with co-star Rosamund Pike, Keira shared she was confused by her nomination due to negative reviews of her in Pirates of the Caribbean around the same time.
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“It was pretty big for my career,” she told Vanity Fair of the nomination. “If people will come up to me, it’ll be about that one. Pirates of the Caribbean had already come out, but I think in the public consciousness, I was seen as a terrible actress. But I had this phenomenally big success with Pirates.”
“I think this was the first one that was a phenomenally big success, but was also critically acclaimed,” she continued. “So I remember it coming out maybe the same year, maybe around the same time as Pirates 2. And I got the worst reviews ever for that, and then also being nominated for an Oscar at the same time—it was, in my 21-year-old head, quite confusing.”
Keira was also nominated for a second Oscar in 2015 for Best Supporting Actress for The Imitation Game.
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