One cool pirate

WHEN Johnny Depp thinks about what it is he does for a living and how well he’s paid for it, he has to laugh.

Currently starring in the fourth instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which will ironically be screened at Cannes this year, Depp was paid somewhere between $32m and $35m (€22.2m-€24.3m) for this film alone.

“To an outsider standing around watching this going on, it’s ludicrous. I mean it’s really an insane thing,” he says, laughing. “I mean, there are moments where I go, ‘alright, you’re someone’s Dad and this is what you do for a living!’ There you are bouncing around and making strange noises for a living and you’re someone’s father! It’s a strange realisation.”