The Star – The film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl inspired by a popular Walt Disney theme park ride; may have been an average affair if it weren’t for Johnny Depp’s performance as a likeable pirate. It is practically legendary now that Depp has loosely based Sparrow’s look and personality on rock n roller Keith Richards. Apparently, the excessive makeup on Depp’s face came to be when the crew put it on for filming in the cave so the character doesn’t look washed out on film.
Then the crew realised how cool the makeup looked on Depp, they continued to use it on him for the rest of the movie. And those gold teeth are real… Depp had his dentist implant them into his mouth for the production. The then Disney executive Michael Eisner thought there were too many and asked him to remove all but a few…
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