During the filming of the first “Pirates of the Caribbean”, Johnny Depp believed that he was going to be fired by Disney studios. The latter indeed seemed very doubtful about his incarnation of Jack Sparrow.
It’s hard to imagine the Pirates of the Caribbean saga without Johnny Depp in the Jack Sparrow costume. However, the actor really believed that he was never going to play the eccentric captain on screen! Disney, very perplexed by his performance during the filming of the first film, would have wanted to fire him. In any case, this is what the Hollywood star claimed in 2015 during a meeting at the American Film Institute, comments relayed by the Indiewire site.
“Yes, they wanted to fire me”declares the actor who challenged Robert Pattinson. “I remember hearing about Michael Eisner (the boss of Disney at the time, editor’s note). It occurred to me that he said something like, “Damn, Johnny Depp is ruining the movie! Is the character drunk? Is he gay?”
“So I was really expecting to be fired, and I got a call from someone very high up at Disney who had the courage to ask me, ‘What the hell are you doing?’continues Johnny Depp. “And again the questions ‘Is the character drunk?’ Is he gay?” They allowed me to come up with a great line. I answered them, ‘But don’t you know that all my characters are gay?'” (laughs)
“I really expected to be fired, but that wasn’t the case.”concludes the American actor. “They actually didn’t understand Captain Jack, they were going to put subtitles under the character.” Disney studios will eventually validate this interpretation of Jack Sparrow that they did not seem to understand. The following ? Five feature films, released between 2003 and 2017, which brought in a total of more than $4.5 million in revenue worldwide.
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