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 Lynn BarkerTeenHollywood: You had a small role in the last Star Wars but you have a major role in this one. What's the difference between this and a little independent film?
Keira: They're kind of polar opposites, really. I mean, Bend it Like Beckham, there was practically no money to make it. You do a small film like that, and you become really close because it's a tiny, tiny crew. And it's all very much, we have today to shoot this. We have to get it done now before the sun sets. That's it. With a film like this, we can take three weeks to shoot an action sequence. I go in in the morning and oh, look, they're exploding another boat and this is just a normal day isn't it? I mean, it's crazy. But both great experiences.
TeenHollywood: What's your anti-drug in life?
Keira: I love watching films. I'm a movie buff. At the moment I'm doing a lot of boxing, which I'm adoring and sword fighting, and I'm being terribly physical at the moment. So I do enjoy that. That endorphin rush is great.
TeenHollywood: How did you get into boxing?
Keira: It's all in preparation for King Arthur. Apparently, it's a very good way to keep fit. And my big problem with my knife fighting is that I don't look like a fighter because I did a lot of ballet dancing growing up. So I'm very much standing up here [indicates very straight and tall]. What I need to do is get down and learn how to defend myself. So the boxing's helping with all that. Plus, it's a great way to get fit. And if you ever want to feel like a powerful woman, there's nothing like knowing how to defend yourself.
TeenHollywood: How did you like filming in the Caribbean?
Keira: It was amazing. I did start to get island fever at the end of two months. But it was really incredible. My days off I'd be sort of lying on a beach and going snorkeling and stuff. Do you feel really sorry for me? Yeah. It was incredible.
 TeenHollywood: You are the youngest cast member in “Pirates”. Was age a factor at all on the set?Keira: No, it wasn't. If you make friends with them. I don't think it matters how old people are. If you kind of click with somebody, then you click with somebody. So no.
TeenHollywood: Did you click with Orlando?
Keira: [smiling] He's great. He's a sweetheart. We'd met each other a couple of times before at various auditions and never got the parts together. Either he'd got it or I got it. So it was really great to finally get a chance to work with him. But saying that, we have maybe four scenes in the entire film together. So I didn't see much of him at all. So it kind of feels like although we have worked together, we haven't really very much. But he's a sweetheart and we had a laugh.
TeenHollywood: So that was actually you jumping off the plank into the sea?
Keira: It actually was. There were always safety divers in the water because there were a lot of people on a lot of boats. And all falling in. My stunt girl Sonja, who's wicked, she's my hero, she jumped in first. I have to admit, but I'd been standing on the plank for like two days. I don't have vertigo or anything but standing on that plank, it was only about 15 feet up, but when you're standing there it's like a diving board so it's wobbling the entire time. The whole boat's moving, because you're out at sea. It completely freaked me out. And for the first time in my life I really got scared of heights.
Everyone who sees the film is going to go, "Yeah, but it's not that high." But actually, I was completely terrified. It would have been fine if I'd just kind of run and jumped in. I think I would have been all right with that. But standing out there for two days, I got completely freaked out. But after Sonja jumped in I thought, bloody hell. I've been standing out here, there is no way I'm not going to do this. So I was like, "Gore [Verbinski, the director], can I?" And he went, "Yeah, go on, man." And actually, it's the shot in the movie, so they've used me. And I did it and it was great fun.
TeenHollywood: Was there anything else particularly difficult for you in the film?
Keira: Besides the plank scene, I think running around. There's a scene where she first sees all the skeletal pirates, which was really bizarre because there weren't any actors there [pirates are CGI]. It was just me running around the big ship, screaming a lot, completely on my own. That was kind of difficult, and it took two weeks to film as well. And by the end of it I was completely black and blue because I'd just been beating myself up, basically. Some people can get institutionalized for that. But there you go.
TeenHollywood: Did anything from this film carry over into King Arthur, which is another period piece?
Keira: It is, but this is kind of 450 A.D., so it's very, very different to Pirates of the Caribbean. It's Jerry Bruckheimer again, it's Disney again. So I know a lot of the guys. It's the same costume designer as had done Pirates, which is great. She's like my mom so that's very nice. But it's going to be a lot more rural. I don't think it's going to be a family film. I think we're just going for reality. So don't think Camelot or Excalibur. I think it's kind of more Gladiator. So it's going to be fascinating.
TeenHollywood: Will you ever wear another corset?
Keira: Never say never, but not for a good, long time.
Lynn Barker is a Hollywood-based entertainment journalist and produced screenwriter
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