Atlanta, GA 12/6/2010 10:35:15 PM
Keira Knightley considered retiring when she was 22.
The 25-year-old actress revealed she wasn’t happy with
her career and felt she had missed out on a normal life but the chance
to work with fellow British star Carey Mulligan on ‘Never Let Me Go’
changed her mind.
She told Britain’s Vogue magazine: “I didn’t know if I was going to go
back to acting at all. I think for a long time I thought I wouldn’t. I
think I intended not to work again.”
“Carey’s a very good friend of mine and I felt if I was to start making films again, she was someone who would watch my back.”
Keira – who is in a relationship with actor Rupert Friend – explained
she considered quitting acting is because she had become disillusioned
with her privileged life but also because she was desperate to go on
vacation.
She said: “I wasn’t enjoying what I was doing and I felt terribly guilty about that.
“I remember hating the idea that I was in a privileged position and couldn’t see the point of any of it.
“I had worked solidly since I was 16, till 22, and I had not been on holiday in all of that time.”
