Keira Knightley makes hilarious admission about her ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ role

It’s not a pirate’s life for Keira Knightley.

The English actress revealed if she has any plans to revisit her role as Elizabeth Swann in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.

After Orlando Bloom said he hopes to get everyone back for a new “Pirates” film, Knightley admitted she wasn’t even sure where her character ended up.

A reporter from Entertainment Tonight asked Knightley, 40, if there had “been any conversations” about returning.

“There haven’t been any conversations. No,” she responded, to which the reporter inquired, “Where would you like to see that character next?”

“What happened to her?” she asked before confirming if she was actually in three movies. “It was a very long time ago and I also don’t remember what happened to her. So I’m not quite sure where she should go afterwards. She should be a pirate, right?”

Knightley starred alongside Bloom, 48, and Johnny Depp in the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, which were released in 2003, 2006 and 2007.

She was just 18 when the first movie hit theaters.

In August, Bloom said “the way to win” with another film is to reunite all the original players.

“Everything is in the writing, right? Everything is on the page, and I think there’s definitely, I’m sure there’s a way to create something,” he said at Fan Expo Chicago, per Entertainment Weekly. “I would personally love to see everybody back. I think the way to win on that one is to get everybody back. If they can, and if everybody wanted to go back.”

“My thing is, if the script was great and — ideally it was everybody — it’d be kind of like in for a penny, in for a pound, you know,” continued Bloom.

Knightley has previously discussed how the Disney franchise positively and negatively impacted her life while speaking with the Times in 2024.

“It’s a funny thing when you have something that was making and breaking you at the same time,” she mused. “I was seen as s–t because of them, and yet, because they did so well, I was given the opportunity to do the films that I ended up getting Oscar nominations for.”

“They were the most successful films I’ll ever be a part of, and they were the reason that I was taken down publicly,” Knightley added.

“So they’re a very confused place in my head.” 

Due to her experience, Knightley has no plans of joining a franchise ever again.

“The hours are insane. It’s years of your life, you have no control over where you’re filming, how long you’re filming, what you’re filming,” she explained.

The movies also took a toll on Knightley’s mental health.

In 2018, she opened up about suffering a mental breakdown and being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder when she was 22.

“In that classic trauma way I don’t remember it,” shared Knightley. “There’s been a complete delete, and then some things will come up, and I’ll suddenly have a very bodily memory of it because, ultimately, it’s public shaming, isn’t it? It’s obviously part of my psyche, given how young I was when it happened. I’ve been made around it.”

Meanwhile in 2022, rumors swirled that Depp, 62, was set to reprise his role as the iconic Jack Sparrow.

“Johnny is set to return as Captain Jack Sparrow and is scheduled to start filming at the beginning of February at a top-secret location in the UK,” a source told The Sun, adding that the project is in the “early stages.”

“All the other details are being kept under lock and key. The whole project is shrouded in secrecy and Disney want to keep everything under wraps as best they can,” the insider added.

Despite the first five films grossing more than $4 billion worldwide, there hasn’t been a new movie since 2017.

In 2022, Depp was asked if he would return to the franchise during his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard.

“If Disney came to you with $300 million dollars and a million alpacas, nothing on this Earth would get you to go back and work with Disney on a ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ film?” Heard’s lawyer asked at the time.

“That is true,” Depp replied at the time.