Keira Knightley has left the Apple TV Plus series “The Essex Serpent” over family reasons. Due to the coronavirus, Keira could not find any comfortable scenario in which she could leave her children for a couple of months of childcare.

“Based on a 2016 novel by Sarah Perry, Essex Serpent follows a newly widowed woman who relocates from Victorian London to a small village in the county of Essex. She is intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.”