Round of applause for Mr Greg Ellis and Mr Kevin McNally, from Pirates of the Caribbean, for standing up for Johnny Depp. Thank you!!
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Some of Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean co-stars have been coming to his defence since he lost his libel case, in which he strongly denied allegations of domestic abuse. Greg Ellis – who played Lieutenant Commander Theodore Groves across three Pirates movies – has vocally supported the 57-year-old and his character. And now Captain Jack Sparrow’s sidekick Mr Gibbs star Kevin McNally has rallied around Depp too.
McNally, who played Joshamee Gibbs in all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies alongside Depp, appeared on Ellis’ video podcast The Respondent this week.
The full two-hour interview is released at 9pm GMT on Sunday, but in the meantime, a clip of McNally voicing his support for his Jack Sparrow co-star has been shared.
In the video, McNally said: “Who knows what goes on behind closed doors.
“But I have never in 22 years of working with Johnny Depp seen anything that would indicate to me he is anything other than a beautiful human being.”
McNally went on to comment on cancel culture and pointed out that Depp’s trial was a libel case and not a criminal conviction.
Earlier this month, Ellis appeared in a YouTube conversation with Stevie J Raw in which he recounted shooting Pirates with Depp in Hawaii.
The 52-year-old remembered how Depp went out of his way to show kindness to his co-star. “He was professional, friendly.
I remember while filming one day, without me knowing during a scene, he had [his bodyguard] Jerry Judge move my chair next to his. It was a subtle way of him bringing me in to get to know me, just to have a conversation. [He is] so down to earth.”
He said of Depp’s inner circle: “They were really wonderful people, as were those around him"