Pirates of the Caribbeanin Jack Sparrow lienee se Johnny Deppin tunnetuin rooli. Hän kuitenkin menetti paikkansa Disneyllä entisen vaimon esitettyä yhtä jos toista syytöstä häntä vastaan. Menossa olevan oikeuskäsittelyn valossa näyttää siltä, että syyllinen on itse asiassa entinen vaimo Amber Heard. Vahinko oli kuitenkin jo tapahtunut. Johnny Depp kommentoi sanoen, että Disneyltä saatu kohtelu tuntui kuin joku olisi takaraivoon lankulla lyönyt.
"Hurt. Blinding hurt. It was like somebody hit me in the back of the head with a 2x4... Captain Jack Sparrow was a character I built from the ground up and was something that I, of course, put a lot of [myself] into the character and also having worked on these films with these people and added much of myself, much of my own re-writing of the dialogue and scenes and jokes. I didn't quite understand how, after that long relationship and quite a successful relationship certainly for Disney, that suddenly I was guilty until proven innocent."
Johnny Depp piti työstään Jack Sparrow'n roolissa, sillä hän pitkälti loi hahmon itse. Depp olisikin halunnut tehdä roolinsa kunnialla loppuun saakka.
"My feeling was that these characters should be able to have their proper goodbye, as it were. A franchise can only last for so long and there's a way to end a franchise like that and I thought that the characters deserved to have their way out, to end the franchise on a very good note. I planned on continuing until it was time to stop."
Oikeus jatkaa edelleen paksun jutun lusikoimista Johnny Deppin ja hänen entisen vaimonsa Amber Heardin kesken. Heardin ura sen sijaan ei tunnu liiemmin kohusta kärsineen ainakaan toistaiseksi.
Kiitokset, Toofab.