VARIOUS: Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz and stars of latest in series of "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, are joined by other members of the cast at the UK premiere

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  • Title: VARIOUS: Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz and stars of latest in series of "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, are joined by other members of the cast at the UK premiere
  • Date: 14th May 2011
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MARCH 12, 2011) (REUTERS) WIDE OF RED CARPET AT WESTFIELD, SHOWING GIANT PIRATE SKULL VARIOUS OF FANS HOLDING POSTERS, BOOKS AND PICTURES ACTRESS ASTRID BERGES-FRISBEY ARRIVING ON RED CARPET GEOFFREY RUSH SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS SAM CLAFLIN SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS JERRY BRUCKHEIMER SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS VARIOUS OF JOHNNY DEPP ARRIVING (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHNNY DEPP, WHAT BRINGS HIM BACK TO THE FILM, SAYING "What brings me back to the role is just that -- you know the mere fact and I mean -- the magnificent people like here -- who ask me to come back you know. -- If they wanna see the film, if they wanna see the characters (indistinct) then I'm -- obliged to do it, you know."
  • Embargoed: 29th May 2011 13:00
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  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA9QJ0LXKRLETL3D8F4WB2137QT
  • Story Text: Stars of the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' attended the UK premiere of the fourth movie in the francise at Westfield centre in London on Thursday (may 12) evening.
    The moviethe story line for some of the earlier characters, and introduces others.
    Director Rob Marshall, who won an Oscar for his film "Chicago", took over in the directing chair from Gore Verbinski who was in charge of the three previous movies. Marshall said he wanted to make sure that we would add his own touch to the franchise.
    "It was great that the whole story line was completely new, so I felt very like we were beginning," he told Reuters Television. "I like to bring pace and rhythm to a film. I also like to bring a clear narrative and exciting ride. It is a lot of action in the film so it's a lot of really fun things. There's a great exciting sequence with mermaids, which you know is not your normal mermaids. They're sort of, you know, killers. So that's really scary and really fun. So it's an exciting new adventure," he added.
    Another character newly introduced to the franchise is pirate lady Angelica, a woman from Captain Jack Sparrow's past, and, so it seems, the only one who won his heart. Johnny Depp, who plays the part of Jack Sparrow in the movie, said he enjoyed working with Penelope Cruz.
    "She's amazing, we did a film together many years back ... and she's a wonderful actress, very talented, super sweet, very funny."
    Cruz, who looked stunning in a white Givenchy dress at the London premiere, was back in perfect shape, after giving birth to son Leo in January. The actress was pregnant at the time of filming but continued working on set.
    "We trained for two months before the movie and that really helped to know all the choreographies, all the fights", Cruz remembers. "And then we did what we could, being very safe, doing nothing dangerous ever. But they were so helpful and so supportive and protective of me."
    Director Rob Marshall even suggested jokingly the pregnancy might have helped her with the role.
    "It's kinda nice in retrospective that it was a boy. Cause she had to play a tomboy so I think there was some masculine energy in there."
    In this latest "Pirates of the Caribbean" adventure Jack Sparrow finds himself on a journey to the so-called Fountain of Youth, on which he doesn't just come across a lot of obstacles, but also an old flame.
    The movie is shown in 2D as well as 3D and is out in cinemas on May 18.
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