The three ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies so far released have earned Disney more than $2.7-billion worldwide. But Johnny Depp say those in charge at the mouse-house had their doubts about Captain Jack Sparrow.
“They couldn’t stand him. They just couldn’t stand him,” Depp tells Vanity Fair. “Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, was even quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie!’”
Some of the Disney suits even asked Johnny if Jack had ‘issues.’
“I had Disney-ites going, ‘What’s wrong with him? Is he some kind of weird simpleton?…By the way, is he gay?” Johnny recalls, grinning. “So I actually told one woman, ‘But didn’t you know, all my characters are gay?’…Which really made her nervous.”
Away from the ocean Johnny is also enthused by his upcoming role in ‘The Tourist,’ where he plays an American traveling through Italy who gets used by an English woman to find a man with whom she had an affair.“Meeting her and getting to know her was a real pleasant surprise,” he recalls. “You don’t know what she might be like; if she has any sense of humor. I was so pleased to find she’s incredibly normal and has a wonderful, perverse sense of humor.”
But when two major stars are away from their partners, anything can happen – or so the paparazzi were hoping. And Johnny clearly felt Angie’s pain;
“Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and Brad…and their kids,” Depp tells the mag. “There are times when you see how ridiculous this life is – you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”
And the pair had to adopt some strange ways to avoid speculation, which included;
“Having to hide, sometimes not even being able to talk to each other in public because someone will take a photograph and it will get misconstrued,” he recalls with clear regret.
He later discovered Angie shares his passion for The Monkees’ 1967 hit, ‘Daydream Believer,’ which reminds Johnny of the career he so nearly had;
“Acting was an odd deviation from a road I was on in my late teens, because I had no interest in it at all,” he tells the scribes. “I was a musician, and that’s what I wanted to do.”
And aren’t you all glad he didn’t?
But with his true calling now clear there are still things the swarthy 47-year old longs to accomplish.
“Marlon Brando once told me. ‘Go and work on Hamlet and play that part. Play that before you’re too old.’ So what he was trying to tell me was: ‘play the part, man – before you’re too long in the tooth. And I’d like to. I’d really, really like to.”
Mel Gibson played it in 1990 and got an Oscar nomination. So who’d like to see Johnny in tight pantyhose?
Let’s take a vote….
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