Johnny Depp has taken to the high seas as Captain Jack Sparrow once more, and it’s for the most heartwarming of causes. Depp tied on the bootstraps once more, reprising his most famous character, to film a video message for a young fan as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Depp filmed the video for an 11-year-old fan named Kori, who runs the YouTube channel “Kraken The Box.” Kori has been in palliative care after undergoing multiple heart transplant surgeries and watched the Pirates of the Caribbean movies as a source of comfort and support during long periods of recovery.
Depp is no stranger to donning the Captain Jack garb off-camera. He has famously made visits to an English school while on a break from shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, after receiving a letter from a young fan asking for his assistance in performing a mutiny against the teachers, while he has routinely made trips to hospitals to lift the spirits of sick children, having started the tradition when his daughter Lily-Rose Depp fell ill during the shooting of an early Pirates film, and ending up donating $1 million to the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
