Johnny Depp admits he’s ‘never seen’ Pirates of the Caribbean despite worldwide success – as he takes stand amid Amber Heard trial
metro.co.ukJohnny Depp revealed that he has never seen Pirates of the Caribbean, as he took to the stand during his defamation court case.The 58-year-old – who starred as Captain Jack Sparrow in the hugely popular blockbuster franchise – is suing ex-wife Amber Heard after she wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, discussing her experiences with domestic abuse.Depp is seeking $50million (£39m) in damages.
He was not named in the article, which was published in 2018, but his lawyers argued that it falsely implies that his former partner was physically and sexually abused by him when they were married.
Heard is countersuing.He testified at the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia earlier today, when he was questioned about his career – and how his life changed thanks to the first Pirates film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, which was released in 2003.‘Cartoon characters can get away with things we can’t.
Captain Jack Sparrow can do things that I could never do. He could say things that I could never say,’ he told the jury. ‘So it was for me, a way to stretch the parameters of a character and take a risk in doing that.’But if it panned out, and I felt I was on a pretty good mission, I thought that it might be a character who would be accepted by five-year-olds and 45-year-olds, 65-year-olds and 85-year-olds in the same way that Bugs Bunny is.’Recalling his first reaction to the script, he continued: ’I thought that it had all the hallmarks of a Disney film – that is to say, a kind of a predictable three act structure.
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