Gore Verbinski: I've always wanted to work with him and he's a pirate, you know, he's just, he's the ultimate pirate. And then I flew to London and met Johnny, and I just asked him "So what are you going to look like?"





Johnny: Initially, when I was doing the research, I started thinking of pirates in the 18th century and I thought well what were they, you know. It's easy just to say that they were these sort of scoundrels and scalawags and going around, you know, ripping people off, but I actually thought that these guys were basically the rock and roll stars of that era. So, to me, I mean the coolest rock and roll star, the greatest rock and roll star is Keith Richards - the quintessential rock and roll star. So Keith became a great inspiration for the character and a main ingredient.





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