Johnny Depp visits children's hospital dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow
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— -- Patients at the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver were treated to a swashbuckling good time Monday when Oscar nominee Johnny Depp showed up as Captain Jack Sparrow, his character from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.
Video taken of the special day shows Depp shaking hands with and hugging children currently being treated at the British Columbia hospital. A "Pirate Party" was also held in celebration.
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"I have no sword, I come in peace," Depp jokes in the clip while greeting fans.
Depp, 54, never broke character during the five-hour visit.
Hospital spokeswoman Pamela Smith said her team got a call from Depp's reps a few weeks back, seeing if he could swing by in between filming a movie in town.
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"We got the wheels in motion," she said. "And wanted to make it as quiet as possible ... Some of the people on my team didn't even know about it."
But what stood out for Smith was Depp making an effort to visit each room and trying to meet all the kids, including those "in isolation."
"He took the time to really engage with them and make them smile and laugh," she added.
"I didn't wake up in the morning, knowing I was going to see Johnny Depp today!" one fan gushed.
This isn't the first time the actor has surprised children at a local hospital. While filming his last "Pirates" movie in Australia in 2015, he stopped by the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane, hugging and meeting the children there as well.
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Johnny Depp Visits Children's Hospital in Australia Dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow
Johnny Depp may sport gold teeth to play Jack Sparrow, but it’s the actor’s gold heart that really makes him shine.
Johnny Depp with patient Max Bennett (Twitter)
Taking a break from filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Queensland, Australia, the movie star made a surprise visit to the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital on Tuesday — in full buccaneer garb — to visit some of the young patients. Over the course of three hours, the 52-year-old actor and his co-star Stephen Graham, who plays Scrum, made a slew of new mateys.
The Children’s Hospital Foundation shared photos from the “special surprise visit” by the “two very famous pirates” during which they made “a real difference to sick kids and their families in hospital.”
The pictures showed the elated patients on the 11th floor of the hospital getting up close and personal with Depp’s dreadlocked and guylinered Sparrow, a character he modeled after a combination of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and cartoon character Pepé Le Pew. One girl had her hands over her mouth in delight as she met the actor.
Max Bennett, a 7-year-old with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological disorder, was one of the youngsters to rub elbows with the Hollywood star. His mother, Rachel, told Australia’s ABC News that Depp “was going from room to room seeing all the kids who couldn’t get out of bed. We waited out of the front of one of the rooms, and he came up to us and had a really good chat to Max.” That included giving Max some “gold coins,” which were engraved with pirate heads. He handed out the coins to several of the patients.
Depp made ‘a real difference to sick kids and their families,’ according to the hospital. (Facebook)
Rachel added, “It was really beautiful. Everyone kept on trying to move [Depp] on, but he kept on coming back. He came on the condition that he wasn’t pushed along and crowded by adults and he could spend as much time as he wanted with the kids.”
Depp, who recently married Amber Heard, is known for making visits to sick kids in his Sparrow ensemble. For instance, in 2009, he wore his costume to visit children at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He has a special fondness for the hospital — it was there that his daughter, Lily-Rose, was treated after she had E. Coli food poisoning, which led to kidney failure when she was 10.
Another patient, and his mom, with some 'gold coins’ Depp handed out. (Facebook)
Depp has said that even when he’s not shooting a Pirates flick, he brings his costume with him wherever he goes — just in case.
“Sometimes you go to kiddie hospitals and things like that,” the actor said in 2013 . “I’ll just sneak in and go and surprise a bunch of kiddies through the different wards… It basically turns into a two-, three-hour improvisation and it’s really fun. So I travel with Captain Jack.”
Depp and Stephen Graham (Facebook)
While Depp charmed the locals this time, his trip Down Under hasn’t been without drama. In May, he found himself in hot water after flying into Australia on a private jet with his Yorkshire Terriers, Pistol and Boo, and breaking the country’s strict quarantine laws. The dogs were subsequently put on a flight back to the U.S., but he faces fines and other sanctions .
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Johnny Depp visits kids in hospital dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow
Actor Johnny Depp delighted kids at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane on July 7 by showing up in costume as Captain Jack Sparrow. The actor is currently filming the fifth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in Australia. While the visit was reportedly kept under wraps, some images and video have emerged. App users click here to watch YouTube clip
Cleared video from Juiced TV and the Children’s Hospital Foundation, the in-house TV channel for the hospital, is included here along with a Twitter picture from an uncle of one of the children. Additional, cleared, images are available on the Juiced website and on the Facebook page of the organization, below. We will update with additional footage once it is released.
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IT WAS the meeting of a lifetime for Ula Pryce-Davies.
The young Leukaemia patient met Johnny Depp at the Lady Cilento Hospital in South Brisbane on Tuesday night.
The 13-year-old said she was ecstatic to meet the star, even getting a peck on the cheek and a very special gift — directly from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie set.
“I got five coins but I gave a couple to a little girl going into surgery,” she said.
“She didn’t get to meet him and knowing he had given her that would have been special.
“You would be nervous if it was the first time you were having surgery.”
Ula said that Depp, for a character who didn’t shower much, smelt pretty good.
Miss Pryce-Davies was one of the many patients and staff who got a brush of fame with the visit from Johnny Depp.
Her mother Caitlin Pryce-Davies repeatedly thanked the Hollywood heavyweight for his visit.
“He was smiling and said ‘you’re so welcome’,” she said.
“Apparently it was all his idea ... That just makes me love him even more.”
The hospital visit came after fans got an insight into filming on the Gold Coast yesterday, when Hollywood and holiday-makers met in the middle of the Broadwater as Captain Jack Sparrow took a bow from the bow of a ghostly pirate ship beached at The Spit.
After almost six months of cloak-and-dagger filming on sets locked down by security patrols, fans of the multi-billion dollar Pirates film franchise finally got a birds-eye view of what goes on when cameras roll on the set of the most expensive movie ever shot in Australia — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
While police on jetskis discreetly patrolled in front of the film set, boaties circled to cast a curious eye over proceedings.
Day 83 of Pirates 5’s 93-day shoot saw Johnny Depp’s pirate character Captain Jack Sparrow front and centre for scenes filmed around the now-familiar pirate ship The Dying Gull at “the finger” — a strip of sand bordering the area of The Spit known as Bum’s Bay.
Cranes and tractors, graders, screens, ropes, pullies, trolleys and hoists have been trucked on to the sandy point to turn it into latest set of the $300 million Pirates 5 movie.
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Johnny Depp Dresses Up as Captain Jack Sparrow for Virtual Visit to Children's Hospital
Johnny depp paid a virtual visit to the patients of queensland children's hospital dressed as his pirates of the caribbean character captain jack sparrow..
Johnny Depp is giving back.
On Friday, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor suited up in his pirate best to surprise the patients of Australia's Queensland Children's Hospital. Done in collaboration with Juiced TV to boost spirits in the wake of the pandemic , Depp reprised his famous character from the Disney film franchise Captain Jack Sparrow for his virtual visit, joining the event from a pirate-themed room and even made sure to speak with the character's accent.
"It's been a couple of years since I've been there and I miss it and I wanted to say hello," he said. "It's a wonderful facility. I'm with all of you and I send you all my love, and all my irreverence and all my ignorance because it's fun to be ignorant and irreverent sometimes. And you deserve to be if you feel that."
"I'm with you always. I love you," he continued. "Thank you for sticking with me through all these very strange years."
While connecting with patients Gabby , Asha and Thomas , Depp answered questions and played games. And in true Captain Jack fashion, there were some hilarious antics that ensued along the way.
"These three beautiful young people I've spoken with this evening…[this] is one of the finest and most beautiful experiences that I've ever experienced," he gushed. "And that is because of all of your commitment to this project and to also just taking care of one another, to helping out when times are curious and confusing."
Depp also took a moment to praise the hospital staff.
"I must thank everyone who's made this virtual visit possible," he said. "But to be able to see Asha, Thomas and Gabby…and I have been there and I've seen the amount of forward motion and instant movement that goes down in your kind of facilities. You guys work—all the nurses, the healthcare workers , the doctors—you work like absolute heroes."
Before signing off, he added, "But I thank you all for allowing me to have this time with you—either as Johnny or as Captain Jack."
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According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. , the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star took a break from filming the latest movie in the franchise to cheer up patients at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital. The 52-year-old actor, decked out in full pirate gear, even took selfies with many of the young fans.
"[Depp] was going from room to room seeing all the kids who couldn't get out of bed," Bennett told ABC .
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1010 WINS -- Johnny Depp is the nicest pirate we know!
The actor got into his iconic character of Captain Jack Sparrow to surprise patients at the BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star spent five and a half hours joking around with kids by handing them coins, having sword fights and even took the time to get to know them.
This isn't the first time that Depp brought smiles to kids in the hospital.
Back in April 2015 he surprised children at a hospital in Australia.
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Johnny Depp paid a visit to a children’s hospital in Vancouver, Canada dressed as his character from Pirates of the Caribbean , Captain Jack Sparrow.
The actor was in Vancouver filming for a new comedy drama, Richard Says Goodbye, when he took time out to meet the young patients.
Depp wore his full costume and reportedly remained in character for his entire visit to the BC Children’s Hospital. He was there for nearly five hours.
The 54-year-old spent his time posing for photographs and entertaining children and their families, and having foam sword fights with some of the patients.
BC Children’s Hospital foundation shared photos of the event to their Facebook page.
The hospital wrote: “Patients at BC Children’s Hospital were delighted by a visit today with one of the world’s most famous pirates, Captain Jack Sparrow. Actor Johnny Depp showed he has a heart of gold by spending more than 5 hours meeting one-on-one with every patient, from newborns to teens.”
BC Children’s Hospital is the province’s only full-service, paediatric acute care hospital. They care for children who are seriously ill or injured. Last year, more than 86,600 children were treated at the Children’s Hospital.
This is not the first time Depp has visited children in hospital as Captain Jack Sparrow.
In December 2016, the Hollywood star visited children staying in Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London ahead of Christmas. The actor’s daughter was previously admitted there in 2007 with kidney failure, and Depp claimed he returned to the hospital in character because it is ‘a gift’.
Speaking on the Graham Norton show then, Depp said “kids [in hospital] are so courageous but to be able to bring a smile or a giggle to the parent’s means everything in the world to me".
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Johnny Depp lifts spirits as he dresses up as Captain Jack Sparrow for virtual children's hospital visit
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Published: 12:22 EDT, 19 June 2020 | Updated: 13:32 EDT, 19 June 2020
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Johnny Depp dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow for a virtual visit to a children's hospital.
The 57-year-old actor donned his costume from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in order to entertain the patients at Queensland Children's Hospital, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the Juiced TV virtual visit, which was streamed live through the hospital, Johnny said: 'It's been a couple of years since I've been there and I miss it and I wanted to say hello.
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'It's a wonderful facility. I'm with all of you and I send you all my love, all my irreverence and ignorance, because it's fun to be irreverent and ignorant. Thank you for sticking with me through all these very strange years.
'These three beautiful young people I've spoken with this evening and having heard from people who sent videos in, like little Ula, is one of the finest and most beautiful experiences that I've ever experienced and that is because of all of your commitment to this project and to taking care of one another and to helping out when times are curious and confusing.'
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Johnny has always been a regular visitor to Great Ormond Street hospital in London, but the visits took on a new meaning in 2007 after his daughter Lily Rose, now 21, was treated there when she contracted e-coli poisoning.
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It was said to be 'touch and go' for Lily Rose for a while after the illness - which is commonly caused by improperly cooked meat, unpasteurised milk or water contamination - resulted in temporary kidney failure.
After her recovery, Johnny said on the Graham Norton Show : 'When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life. I'd always done these visits but after that experience the visits became more and more important.
'The kids [at the hospital] are so courageous but to be able to bring a smile or a giggle to the parents means everything in the world to me.'
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Johnny Depp -- Captain Jack Sparrow himself -- paid children at the BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver a surprise visit on Monday, dressed dread to toe as h...
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The young Leukaemia patient met Johnny Depp at the Lady Cilento Hospital in South Brisbane on Tuesday night. The 13-year-old said she was ecstatic to meet the star, even getting a peck on the ...
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Sick children at a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, hospital got a heartwarming surprise visit Tuesday from Capt. Jack Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp visits a young patient at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver. BC Children's Hospital The Kertcher family, as well as dozens of others, had no idea the actor was going to make the trip.
Johnny Depp Visits Children's Hospital Dressed As Captain Jack Sparrow. August 17, 2017 / 11:10 AM EDT / CBS New York. 1010 WINS -- Johnny Depp is the nicest pirate we know! The actor got into his ...
Patients at BC Children's Hospital were delighted by a visit today with one of the world's most famous pirates, Captain Jack Sparrow. Hollywood actor Johnny ...
Yes, dad-of-two Johnny Depp, 52, is melting our hearts in the headlines today. The star of the latest instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean , Dead Men Tell No Tales, delighted kids at the Lady Cilento children's hospital in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday (Tuesday, July 8), when he visited in full character of—you know it—our favourite ...
The hospital wrote: "Patients at BC Children's Hospital were delighted by a visit today with one of the world's most famous pirates, Captain Jack Sparrow. Actor Johnny Depp showed he has a ...
Actor Johnny Depp made a group of kids at B.C. Children's Hospital very happy on Monday.Depp, who is in Vancouver to film Richard Says Goodbye, morphed into ...
Johnny Depp dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow for a virtual visit to a children's hospital. The 57-year-old actor donned his costume from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in order to entertain ...
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