Johnny Depp made a shock particular go to whereas attending the San Sebastián Movie Competition.
Dressed as his Pirates of the Caribbean character Captain Jack Sparrow, Depp visited the youngsters of the Donostia College Hospital in San Sebastián, Spain, on Thursday, Sept. 26, in accordance with the hospital’s social media. The 61-year-old actor is in Spain for the San Sebastián Movie Competition, and through his time away from the occasion, he slipped into his previous costume.
On the hospital, Depp spoke and performed with sufferers admitted to the Pediatrics and Oncology ward. Whereas there, he laughed with the youngsters and by no means broke character, the native newspaper El Diario Vasco studies.
The hospital posted pictures of the actor’s go to on X (previously often called Twitter).
“From all of the workers of the Donostia College Hospital, we wish to specific our infinite gratitude to Johnny Depp for his time, his assist and his power, in addition to to @sansebastianfes for having facilitated this go to,” the hospital’s submit learn.
Depp has beforehand visited hospitals’ kids’s wards as Jack Sparrow world wide, from Vancouver, Paris, London, and Brisbane, Australia, to a number of cities within the U.S., per El Diario Vasco.
Depp starred within the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise alongside Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Lifeless Man’s Chest (2006) and At World’s Finish (2007). He additionally starred within the following two movies, On Stranger Tides (2011) and Lifeless Males Inform No Tales (2017).
The franchise started with the romance between Will Turner (Bloom) and Elizabeth Swan (Knightley). They develop into caught up in bigger conflicts between Jack Sparrow, varied pirate teams and factions related to the British Empire.
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Depp’s go to follows the debut of Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness, a new film he directed, on the 72nd San Sebastián Worldwide Movie Competition in Spain. Throughout a Sept. 24 press convention, Depp explained how he personally related to the film’s subject, Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
“Every has their story. Positive, we are able to say that I’ve been by way of quite a lot of issues right here and there. However, you realize, I’m alright,” he stated with fun in a video from the convention shared on Instagram by The Hollywood Reporter.
“I believe we’ve all been by way of quite a lot of issues, in the end. Perhaps yours wasn’t, didn’t flip right into a cleaning soap opera, televised, the truth is,” he added, seemingly referring his 2022 Virginia defamation trial with Amber Heard, which had its proceedings live-streamed to hundreds of thousands every day.
After the trial, Heard, 38, paid Depp $1 million in a settlement to conclude the defamation lawsuit after a jury sided largely with Depp. She now lives a quiet life in Madrid with her 3-year-old daughter.
In the meantime, Depp has remained busy. After the San Sebastian Movie Competition, he’ll open an immersive and experiential exhibition called A Bunch of Stuff in New York Metropolis on Friday, Oct. 4.