Johnny Depp Welcomes The Gay Pirate Question
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/430616p-363038c.html
Johnny Depp has turned Capt. Jack Sparrow into a bit of a swishbuckler in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Depp says he was intrigued by a scholarly work titled "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition." "I liked the idea of [Jack] being ambiguous," he tells Mark Binelli in the new summer double issue of Rolling Stone. "Because women were thought to be bad luck on ships. And these pirates would go out for years at a time. So, you know, there is a possibility that one thing might lead to another. You're lonely. You have an extra ration of rum. 'Cabin boy!'"…
Johnny Depp has turned Capt. Jack Sparrow into a bit of a swishbuckler in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Depp says he was intrigued by a scholarly work titled "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition." "I liked the idea of [Jack] being ambiguous," he tells Mark Binelli in the new summer double issue of Rolling Stone. "Because women were thought to be bad luck on ships. And these pirates would go out for years at a time. So, you know, there is a possibility that one thing might lead to another. You're lonely. You have an extra ration of rum. 'Cabin boy!'"…
I like the idea of Jack being ambiguous too, lol.
So funny that "Captain Jack" Harkness is so flamingly bi, too. I wonder if they were having fun with that name?
Here's a link to an interesting article:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200510/msg00246.html
And a quote from that article:
>>>Captain Jack has been described as Doctor Who's "first openly gay companion" and a "hunky bisexual".
Davies told Doctor Who magazine earlier this year: "It wasn't me sort of dying to get a bisexual character on screen. Yes, I'm a gay writer, but I was thinking: Jack's from the 51st century so of course he's going to go out with men and women. To get hung up on it is almost too sad for words, frankly."