In October 2015, Knightley made her Broadway debut playing the title role in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Émile Zola's "Thérèse Raquin" at Studio 54. Her performance received positive reviews. Alexandra Villarreal of "The Huffington Post" wrote, "She fumes, and rages, and withdraws, and you can watch her psychological evolution from stifled wife to impassioned mistress to haunted murderer". In 2016, it emerged Knightley was set to star in a feature biopic about the 18th-century Russian empress "Catherine the Great" based on the top 2014 Black List script produced by Gil Netter and directed by Barbra Streisand. nothing has come out of these plans. Knightley then starred in the ensemble drama "Collateral Beauty" (2016), alongside Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, and Helen Mirren. The film was critically panned, and earned the cast a Razzie nomination. Despite previously stating on a number of occasions that she would never return to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, Knightley reprised the role of Elizabeth Swann with a cameo appearance in 2017's "".