KEIRA KNIGHTLEY NOT HAPPY BEING WET

Keira Knightley loved everything about returning to Pirates three except the scenes where she would be drenched from pelting rains.

When we meet Keira Knightley returning as Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End she is no longer a damsel in distress, but rather on a fierce mission to save Captain Jack who was last swallowed whole by the sea monster Kraken.

Keira braves the high seas on The Black Pearl against the clutches of the British East India Trading Company which is turned completely upside down to right itself from being at world’s end. On location in the Bahamas Keira says she had mixed feelings about shooting the open ocean scenes where the cast was drenched by gallons of pounding rain and gigantic fans capable of blowing winds at 100 miles per hour.

“I really liked it. I liked the underwater stuff a lot more than just being wet in windy conditions which is what we were doing when we actually on Pismo Beach. Everything at Palmdale with the final fight is just all rain so I’m not quite as keen on that as I am on just being underwater. It’s OK because you stay warm. It’s like 80 degrees in the water, it’s great; swim down, hold your breath, swim back up again. But this whole being wet for like five weeks which is what we’ve been, it’s quite challenging.”

Above water Keira can certainly hold her own against any male pirate in the swashbuckling scenes.

“It’s been great to play the girl who’s slightly stronger which is interesting and I always think that’s quite good. You need in kids films to have that sort of female characters and I enjoy doing the fight scenes so that’s been good.”

Keira has hung up her corset for Atonement based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan defending her lover James McAvoy accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End supposedly wraps up the trilogy of Captain Jack and company but there have been some rumblings about a possible fourth adventure we can all look forward to.