These days there is a lot of talk about Johnny Depp due to the bitter legal dispute that it maintains with Amber Heard. In Espinof the only thing that really interested us about her were some statements by the actor saying that he would not bring Jack Sparrow back to life for Disney not even if they offered him 300 million dollars, which has reminded us that at the time they were about to fire him from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’.
“Either you trust me or you throw me out”
The doubts were not long in coming, initially due to Depp’s decision to put gold caps on some teeth, as Depp commented: “Jerry (Bruckeheimer) was slightly uneasy, and Disney execs weren’t exactly thrilled about it.“In fact, the actor revealed years later Michael EisnerCEO of the company at the time, believed that “was ruining the movie“.
The protagonist of ‘The ninth door’ was not intimidated. since he confronted them: “I told them, “Look, these are the choices I’ve made. You know my jobs. Either trust me or kick me out.” And luckily, they didn’t.“And it is that the actor himself knows very well the problems of working with big studios: “they feel uncomfortable with certain creative decisions than everything, but if the studio doesn’t care, then I’m not doing my job right“.
That didn’t stop him from being bombarded with a multitude of questions about his approach to playing Sparrow. This is what Depp commented on it in 2010:
Disney bosses would ask, “What’s wrong with him? Is he some kind of weird goofball? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?” And I said to this Disney girl: “But don’t you know that all my characters are gay?” Which made her very nervous.
All Disney concerns were dispelled when the first installment of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ saga hit theaters in the summer of 2003 and swept the box office with worldwide receipts of 654. The sequels would not take long to arrive.