Disney bosses thought Jack Sparrow drunk or gay, says Johnny Depp

Actor tells Patti Smith that studio insiders asked if Pirates of the Caribbean character was drunk and if he was gayDisney bosses were initially dismayed by Johnny Depp's character in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, the actor has revealed. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Depp recalls the perplexed horror in which studio executives held Captain Jack Sparrow, the pirate loosely based upon Keith Richards."They just couldn't stand him," says Depp. "I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Di...

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