Keira Knightley has dropped out of an anticipated project for Apple TV+ weeks before filming was scheduled to begin due to “family reasons.” The Daily Mail reports that the 35-year-old actress was set to star in an adaptation of the novel The Essex Serpent, playing a recently widowed mother who relocates to a small English village where a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent is believed to have returned.
The drama had been set to begin production in six weeks, but has been placed on hiatus after a spokesperson for Knightley told the Mail that she “had to unfortunately pull out” of the project.
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