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Is Johnny Depp Returning to Pirates of the Caribbean?
Johnny Depp has concisely stepped backmost into Captain Jack Sparrow's boots.
The 59-year-old reprised the iconic Pirates of the Caribbean role successful a video message addressed to an 11-year-old superfan named Kori. In a posting shared connected Dec. 11, Kori—who has received 2 bosom transplants and is presently successful palliative care—wrote that Depp made the video successful collaboration with the Make-A-Wish Foundation aft proceeding astir his precocious launched pirate-themed YouTube channel, Kraken the Box.
"Captain Kori, terribly atrocious I missed retired connected this. Meant to accidental it, forgot to accidental it, didn't accidental it, gonna accidental it now. Saying it, I'll accidental it," Depp, dressed as Jack Sparrow, began successful the two-minute clip. "I perceive tales of thing they talk astir successful the ages of present called the YouTube channel, which I don't understand, but wherefore not?"
Calling the youngster "quite the YouTube transmission man," Depp promises to tune into Kori's videos and "tell each my friends to follow" the channel.
"That, I think, volition marque for a fantastic amusement expertise momentary lapse of togetherness altogether successful 1 abstraction but acold apart—but then, astatine the aforesaid time, precise close," Depp continued, inactive successful his eccentric character. "Curious, enduring and strange."
Wishing Kori "the champion of luck" with his caller endeavor, the histrion added, "I americium your No. 1 fan, Captain Kori."
Since uploading Depp's video message, Kori has amassed thousands of caller followers. As of this story's publishing time, helium has much than 179,000 subscribers connected his channel, which launched successful November.
In a follow-up video posted connected Dec. 13, Kori shared footage from a FaceTime telephone helium had with Depp, who was inactive successful his Jack Sparrow character.
"Hello Kori, however are you?" Depp asked, prompting the young lad to gush that he's doing "really, truly good."
Depp went connected to compliment Kori connected the "wonderful chapeau" helium was wearing during the call, which happened to beryllium a brownish tri-fold chapeau akin to the 1 adorned by Jack Sparrow, earlier suggesting to "knight" the tween arsenic a pirate.
As Depp explained, "I thought it lone right."
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Depp played Jack Sparrow in each five Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the latest 1 being the 2017 installment Dead Men Tell No Tales. During his defamation trial against ex Amber Heard earlier this year, the prima said that helium had no involvement successful returning for more Pirates movies.
However, Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently hinted that the doorway whitethorn inactive beryllium unfastened for Jack Sparrow's return. "We're inactive moving connected it," helium told Associated Press. "Nothing is definitive yet, but we proceed to instrumentality small babe steps successful getting towards a screenplay."
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