With his ability to completely assimilate himself into a role, Johnny Depp is definetely one of Hollywood's most versatile actors.
The Black Mass actor however, revealed one close call while attending the AFI Festival in L.A. on Monday, November 9, as one of the actor's most famous transformation - as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - almost didn't work in his favor.
Depp revealed during a panel at Sunday's A.F.I. Fest. "Yeah, they wanted to fire me. It trickled back to me that [former Disney CEO] Michael Eisner went on some sort of bent about how 'Goddamnit Johnny Depp's ruining the film! Is it drunk? Is it gay?' So I fully expected to be fired."
Depp recalled how producers of the now-blockbuster franchise hated how he appeared to smear his words and rumble on-screen. (The actor previously said that he was inspired by Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards and the cartoon character Pepé Le Pew while on set.)
Depp jokingly told them. "I said, 'Well don't you know all my characters are gay?' I really expected to be fired, but I wasn't for some reason. They were actually gonna put subtitles under my character, they couldn't understand Captain Jack."
Depp went on to play the naughty pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales hits theaters in 2017, since fortunately, the audience fell for Sparrow's character.
Thrice has he been nominated for Best Actor by the Academy Awards and several times has he been nominated for major acting awards.
Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
The 52-year-old, actor has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, with earnings of $75 million. Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2015.
