Topix.net – People Magazine editor-at-large and The Early Show entertainment contributor Jess Cagle spoke with Depp about the new movie and his unique role.
“You’ve said that ‘Pirates’ initially came from a desire to do a movie for the kids. And I wanted to know what kind of feedback have you gotten from your kids about the movies?”
Depp: “The kids have been incredibly sort of supportive,” he says. “They enjoy the character a lot. Every now and again, very rarely, but they’ll ask me to sort of, say something like Jack Sparrow. Or do something like Sparrow. My son for example, used to think that – it was the cutest thing in the world – he always thought that the character’s name was ‘Captain Jack Sparrow Savvy.'”
Depp was practically a kid himself when he starred in the TV drama “21 Jump Street.” Director John Waters saw that Depp was capable of much more and gave him his first big-screen starring role in “Cry-Baby.”
“John Waters said he thinks Captain Jack is actually, of all the characters you’ve played, the character closest to you,” Cagle asks, laughing. “Is there, first of all, why would he say something like that, is there any truth to it?”
“I’ll never reveal the truth … I cannot and will not say. No, I think with all the characters, you know, they’re still in there, you know. Ed Wood pops up every now and again,” says Depp. “Captain Jack, certainly. Closest to me? You know, maybe. It’s hard for me to say.” [More…]
