Knightley: Depp makes fun of me
2006-02-14 11:32
Los Angeles - British starlet Keira Knightley revealed on Monday that her Pirates of the Caribbean co-stars including heartthrob Johnny Depp were making fun of her for winning an Oscar nomination.
Knightley, 20, the youngest 2006 Academy Award nominee after winning a best actress nod for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, said her fellow actors were not showing her any special reverence at all.
"He just laughed at me," Knightley said when asked what Depp's reaction had been when he learned of her nomination while the pair were filming the two Pirates sequels in the Bahamas.
"They've all been taking the piss out of me mercilessly," she joked at a luncheon thrown in Beverly Hills for this year's crop of Oscar nominees, referring to her cast members' poking fun at her.
"Every time I do a take, they go, 'Is that an Oscar-nominated take, then?'" Knightley quipped about her irreverent co-stars in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
Knightley is leading a pack of Oscar newcomers, including a phalanx of young actors, into this year's Academy Awards.
The actress said her mother awoke her in the Bahamas to tell her she had been nominated, revealing that she then fell back to sleep only to wake up a little later "giggling".
She said she was thrilled to attend the star-studded nominees' luncheon, especially when she ran into screen heartthrob George Clooney, but said she still had no idea what she would wear at the March 5 Oscars ceremony.
"I'm just going to go and have a nice time; people watch - it should be quite interesting," said the bubbly young actress.
- AFP