On the silver rings he and various other cast and crew members were sporting at the premiere There was always a sense that we might do three films, but to do four is just a great testament to everyone’s work, that they wanted to make the best films they could.
What’s crazy about this is that I never, ever thought I’d be making it. There’s something quite thrilling about knowing that Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster had played there before you. The art department could feasibly create, close to scenes like that, possibly, in a studio environment, but when you’re on location it does 90% of the acting for you, because you’re really there, and you do hear, and feel, and smell things lurking around, wildlife, that is silently nearby in the scene with you.Īgain, some of the beach locations, it was historically fun, because the shore that we shot on for the lighthouse was where they shot From Here to Eternity. In Hawaii we were often on night shoots in fantastical bamboo forests, or crawling through very murky, strange undergrowth, skulking our way into the Spanish camp. I was dancing with her on Chocolat, and I got to bite her ear on this one. Very brief on Chocolat, and very brief on this, but it was wonderful. It was the second time I’ve been lucky enough to work with Dame Judy Dench. Dropping the kids off at school, and he’ll just show up. Captain Jack, I’ve played him four times, he arrives pretty quickly. Some of them I have to work up to, and other ones come just a little bit easier. Each and every one is still pretty accessible. With all the characters I’ve played, they’re all pretty close to the surface. We’ve cherry picked the very best, most interesting quotes from both events, and presented them to you here, below this badly written, rambling introduction. It’s now a few days hence and we can still hear the screaming… Three floors of Westfield shopping centre, crowded full of fans, many of them in an absolute frenzy, waiting to catch a glimpse of the stars of the film. Last Thursday we spent a day stalking the cast and crew of the film, first at a press conference, and then at the insanity that was the European premiere. Eight years on from the release of the first movie, we’ve had two (not quite as good) sequels, more Jack Sparrow impersonators than you can shake a stick at, and Johnny Depp has gone from being the darling of indie filmmakers and horny teenage Goths, to an A-List celebrity. It’s something of a surprise just how popular the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has become.