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"A recreation of the St. James&amp;#039;s Palace dining room is the venue for an afternoon of filming. It&amp;#039;s a vast set that brings to mind the meticulous detail of Stanley Kubrick&amp;#039;s Barry Lyndon. Body doubles and stand-ins - including a dead-ringer for Jack Sparrow - run through the scene, hitting marks and making sure they&amp;#039;re in the right places for the camera. &amp;#039;Blocking&amp;#039; in filmmaking lingo. Richard Griffiths (King George II) is sat in the make-up chair, while Geoffrey Rush, wearing a green sock to help digitally paint out his leg in post-production, is milling around chatting to crew. A monitor plays back scenes filmed earlier in the day, and 3D glasses allow a glimpse at what the scene will look like when it&amp;#039;s been dimensionalised. Johnny Depp arrives, strolling across the set (giving us a quick nod!), then takes up his position across the table from Griffiths. A bell rings and a red light illuminates to signal the first take and the camera tracks Rush from behind as he greets the King and Jack Sparrow. The takes are brief, but it appears that Sparrow has been hauled in front of the King&amp;#039;s guards and this is Barbossa&amp;#039;s entrance into the movie. A few more takes are needed before the scene is completed and then, out of nowhere, Jack Sparrow himself materialises behind the journalists and crew huddled around the monitor. It&amp;#039;s a surreal moment witnessing Depp half-way between himself and his character. A stray hair from his wig falls across his brow and instead of quickly plucking it, he contorts his face, zeroes in on it then yanks it out theatrically. It&amp;#039;s pure Captain Jack. Coming back to his iconic role has been &amp;quot;a gas&amp;quot;, he confesses: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s not a bad thing you can say about it.&amp;quot; The recent filming in Greenwich has required him to do some stuntwork, leaping between two carriages. &amp;quot;I prefer seas myself!&amp;quot; he jokes. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a physical language to the character that I think is important and even though the stunt double Chris [Leps] has got it down to a fine science, there are still times you&amp;#039;ve got to see Captain Jack&amp;#039;s head in there now and again.&amp;quot;  He&amp;#039;s clearly relishing having more input into his character this time around, describing the writing process with Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot as like being in &amp;quot;a think tank, throwing ideas around&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;If something sparks, it sparks. If they accept it, they accept. Thankfully they did, hopefully for the better,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;They were very receptive to throwing ideas around just to make it different and keep it very fresh as opposed to just &amp;#039;here comes another sequel&amp;#039;.\u00E2\u20AC&#157;  New director Marshall, who he calls &amp;quot;a wonderful man&amp;quot;, has brought on board his Nine star Penelope Cruz for a reunion with Depp. Her character Angelica, it seems, is more than a match for his rouge swashbuckler. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a serious force to be reckoned with, Penelope. We did a film together years ago called Blow\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6&amp;quot; he pauses for a second, &amp;quot;I could&amp;#039;ve said we did Blow together years ago! So we did this film Blow together and she&amp;#039;s wonderful, really a treat. She&amp;#039;s a heavy hitter, you can throw all kinds of things up into the atmosphere and she&amp;#039;ll snatch up something and throw a curve ball back at you. She&amp;#039;s very stimulating, she&amp;#039;s someone I adore, one of my best friends. It&amp;#039;s been great having her.&amp;quot; Will there be any drastic changes to the character? &amp;quot;Well there&amp;#039;s a sex change!&amp;quot; Depp laughs. &amp;quot;No, I honestly think this whole thing about characters and character arcs and finding themselves and this and that, I honestly think ol&amp;#039; Captain Jack found himself a long time ago. He can&amp;#039;t go any further, I think he&amp;#039;s hit a wall.&amp;quot; Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens in cinemas on May 18, 2011. &amp;gt; Sam Claflin &amp;gt; Astrid Berges-Frisbey &amp;gt; Designing POTC: On Stranger Tides &amp;gt; Jerry Bruckheimer and Terry Rossio  Leave your comments on our Jack Sparrow encounter in the space below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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