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www.stuff.co.nz recently interviewed the director, Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Fame, about the second instalment of his pirates adventure trilogy. Here’s a short excerpt…

Does Johnny Depp stay in character on set?

GORE: He turns Captain Jack on and off like a switch. Johnny’s so close to that character that there’s more Johnny Depp in Captain Jack than in any other character he’s played. I think if you’d seen him doing Ed Wood for example, you’d have seen him stay in character a lot more on set, trying to find the character and keep it and distill it. But Captain Jack is really close to Johnny. I think his other performances he’s been running away from an archetype, from being a leading man, the sort of guy who gets the girl and there’s usually a shyness and an introverted quality to those performances. But Jack is a braggart, a liar, a thief and a conman and at ease with it to. So I think there have been these floodgates with Johnny holding all this stuff back for years and suddenly with Captain Jack, Whoosh! The line I always keyed into in thinking how to direct Jack was one from the first movie: ‘You’re the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of’ – ‘Yes, but at least you’ve heard of me’.

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The UK band “Testosterone” recently recorded a song called “I wanna Be your Johnny Depp” –
the song can be heard and downloaded for free HERE

Enjoy it, it is great!

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With swords thrusting, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest features a protagonist whose mannerisms defy the stereotype of the traditional American action hero.

Most obviously, the character is morally ambiguous. That’s a given, since he’s a pirate. But the differences run more deeply. As some viewers–gay and straight–surely have noted, Depp’s performance leans a little toward the higher end of the Kinsey scale.

[While Depp] doesn’t explicitly say that situational homosexuality was a part of pirate life, but he notes that "women were thought to be bad luck on ships" and that long periods of time could separate these men from one port and the next. It’s done in a roundabout fashion, but Depp does acknowledge that, whether intentional or not, this side of Sparrow exists…

Read more of Drew Mackie’s article on AfterElton.com.

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This cool cat [Johnny Depp] is unfailingly courteous, funny, modest, candid-he answers all questions-and [is] approachable. We’ve interviewed him several times before, and we’re always reminded that the guy is dedicated to his [girlfriend], French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis (which explains why he is now fluent in French), and father to Lily-Rose, 7, and Jack, 4 writes Ruben V. Nepales of the Daily Inquirer.

Here’s an excerpt from a great interview that can be found in full on the INQ7.net website.

Can you describe the mood when you and Keira kissed?

DEPP: It is always awkward when you are kissing someone you are not romantically involved with. It is acting and it is fake. Kissing scenes are always strange to me, especially since Keira is twentysomething years younger. But she was a good sport. We did what we had to do … and moved on to the next thing. You can almost compare kissing scenes to stunts. It is a strange moment before and after. And then it is just done.

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David Hiltbrand of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the most successful pirates, from Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte to Jack Sparrow, have always employed the element of surprise, sneaking up on their prey. So what does the extraordinary success of that scalawag Sparrow mean?

‘First and foremost, that the box office is not dead,’ said Brandon Gray, president and publisher of the Web site Box Office Mojo. ‘Make a movie people want to see and they will rush to see it. This is that rare crowd-pleaser. Audiences loved the adventure, the humor, the horror, and the characters, particularly Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow.’

‘Industry observers predicted it would do well, but no one thought it would do this well,’ said Harry Medved of Fandango, the ticket-selling outlet. By Friday, Fandango was selling an unprecedented 10 tickets per second to Dead Man’s Chest…

Read more from David Hiltbrand’s significant report by following the link above.

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…I would be hard pressed to find an instance where Johnny Depp has not delivered. Even in projects where the film crumbled around him (let’s say ‘Astronaut’s Wife’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’) Depp is ALWAYS magnificent. He has created in the quirky rogue of a pirate Jack Sparrow an iconic figure that will forever be in the annals of cinematic history.

I highly recommend ‘Pirates’ to all those looking to get lost in the magic of cinema for a few hours. Parental note: while it’s a great film for the kiddos, the time is a bit lengthy so act accordingly. However, for those with a strong bladder ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ will deliver a truly magical cinematic experience that rivals any ride Disney could conjure up…

Yo-ho me Hardies, yo-hoarr.

This is an article excerpt. Article by Wilkes Barre for the PA Leader.

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According to studio estimates, the Associated Press announced today that Johnny Depp’s record-shattering blockbuster Disney sequel “Dead Man’s Chest” earned another $62.2 million in the US in its second weekend. This brings its ten day total to $258.2 million and has made it the year’s top grossing film.

“It’s really fun when you’re riding a comet like this,” said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney, which based the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on its theme park attraction. “This thing is just unbelievable. It creates its own wake.”

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There ought to be a club for weird actors. These are the actors who toy with their lines and make you laugh at their fruity mannerisms. They’re Method clowns. And I say that with awe.

But my nominee for president of the Weird Actors Club is Johnny Depp , writes CBS News Sunday Morning contributor David Edelstein for CBS News. Rounding out the membership roll according to Edelstein are such noteworthy actors as Marlon Brando, Nicholas Cage, Val Kilmer, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jon Voight.

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Johnny fans who haven’t been lucky enough to catch up with the real thing can now have their photograph taken with Johnny’s alter ego, Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest when you visit Madam Tussauds wax museum. The wax look-alike is located in Amersterdam, London, New York, and Las Vegas.

For more information on Madam Tussauds in Las Vegas visit Las Vegas Vegas .com

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In his exclusive interview for If Magazine Contributing Writer EMMANUEL ITIER talked with Johnny about playing Jack Sparrow in the Disney blockbuster sequel PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST. An excerpt follows:

iF: And how was it kissing Keira Knightley?

DEPP: Oh the smooch. Well those things are always so awkward especially because Keira and I have never been in that kind of situation together. She’s three and I’m a thousand. I’m Methuselah and she’s a toddler. There was that, but more than anything, we’ve known each other for a couple of years and suddenly it was, "Are you ready for this?" And you just kind of do it. It becomes more like a stunt in a way. "Where’s my double?" She was a great sport about it. She was really sweet.

Follow the link above to read more as Johnny talks about staying in character with his kids, Keith Richards as a dad, and French films.

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