Keira Knightley has been
nominated for two Oscars and starred in such hit movies as the Pirates of
the Caribbean films, but it seems that not everyone is a fan.
Her Begin Again director,
John Carney — whose new movie, Sing Street, is in theaters now —
recently told the U.K.’s Independent in a very candid
interview that he became “disenchanted” after working with her on the 2013
musical film, which co-starred Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine.
“I think the real problem was
that Keira wasn’t a singer and wasn’t a guitar player and it’s very
hard to make the music seem real if it’s not with musicians,” said Carney, who also
directed the musical Once. “And I think the audience struggled a little
bit with that in Begin Again.
And as much as I tried to make it work,
I think that she didn’t quite come out as a guitar-playing singer-songwriter.
So I really wanted to work with musicians and actors that could play their
instruments properly and sing and stuff like that.”
