Keira Knightley Almost Wasn’t In ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 … – HuffPost

It seems it almost wasnt a Pirates life for Keira Knightley.

Brenton Thwaites, who plays Henry Turner inPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, recently chatted with HuffPost about what its like to play the son of Orlando Blooms Will Turner and Keira Knightleys Elizabeth Swann. He also shed some light on Knightleys big return.

The actor told us,Its kind of an honor to play a Turner. Ive watched all their stuff together since the first movie, and theyve always had such a great banter and wonderful chemistry with each other.

Fans were especially excited about the chance to see that chemistry again when it got out that Knightley would appear in the film. Images of the actress, which first showed up in the international trailer, instantly went viral. Since then, the cast has been pretty forthcoming about Knightleys appearance, withBloomopenly talking about sharing the screen again with his Pirates co-star on the red carpet.

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Still, her return apparently wasnt always a lock. As Thwaites remembers it, the Knightley scene wasnt in the original script.

I believe it was added after. Im not sure, but I believe it was added after, Thwaites told HuffPost, saying the part with Elizabeth Swann was shot 14 or 15 months after principal photography.

It was a long gap between finishing production and doing the reshoots was that little segment, said Thwaites. I had already shot my biggest scenes with Orlando,so we already had our moment, and our story had come to an end, and we kind of [closed] that chapter and had our climactic moment.

(HuffPost reached out to screenwriter Terry Rossio about the moment and will update this story accordingly.)

Knightley previously said she wasnt going to appear in another Pirates movie, which could explain why Elizabeth Swann supposedly wasnt included in the initial script. But what changed her mind?

Perhaps she just missed life on the high seas. Or, as we speculated before, the actress probably stole a piece of cursed Aztec gold and got pulled into the role while trying to return it to the Pirates set. Who knows?

However it happened, were glad shes back. Swanns inclusion is without a doubt one of the best parts of the movie, and it may play a role in where the franchise goes from here.

Thwaites told us hed like to see his character have a bit more material with Elizabeth Swannin futurePirates films.

I didnt really have that much with Elizabeth Swann, Keiras character, but I would like to see a bit more of that because it feels like the start of something new, he said, and theres kind of a lot of possibility at the end of the movie.It feels like it will go somewhere.

If we had a magical compass that pointed to what we wanted most, itd be more Elizabeth Swann, too.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales hits theaters Friday.

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