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Now franchise star Geoffrey Rush – Captain Hector Barbossa for the uninitiated – is sharing his thoughts on kicking off another ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise without Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp’s – Commitment To Captain Jack Sparrow Praised By Co-star
It’s not going to be easy to find a captain that carries a torch to the work already done by Depp, if you ask Rush.
“Whoever takes over from Johnny, I don’t know what’s gonna happen there,” Rush told Collider.
“He’s irreplaceable. Jack Sparrow is the new Robert Newton… Early on, we had a chat between Orlando [Bloom] and Johnny and myself, and he was already talking about pop stars like Keith Richards having that kind of visceral identity that you knew.
He said, ‘I’m just fascinated that this character, Jack, spends half his life on land and half his life on water. What if he never really gets his sea legs?’ And that’s where that whole war came from.”
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Speaking on how actors are able to wonderfully portray characters, Rush added, “Michael Chekhov, who was a Russian actor, wrote books about the defining moments of creating characters, and people studied that for decades… but I know people like Anthony Hopkins and Jack Nicholson always said, ‘Oh, we all read about Michael Chekhov.’ I went, ‘That was Johnny’s brilliant instinct.’ It’s a whole picture… [Depp] just made the essence of the character.”
At the moment, reports say two ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ reboot scripts are in the works, with Austin Butler allegedly being considered to lead one.
When it comes to having a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie without Depp, fans are nearly of one mind: they’re not watching. So it might even get more awkward for Disney down the line.
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