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Johnny Depp revealing which of his movie characters are gay?

”I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie [Pirates of the Caribbean].’… Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What’s wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?… And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite… ‘But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?”

Johnny Depp talking with Patti Smith about his role as the pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow, in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie series. Depp says his interpretation of the character was disliked by Disney Studio’s leaders at the time. (Vanity Fair)

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