She got the brush off yesterday, but Sunrise reporter Michelle Tapper's perseverance paid off.

Johnny Depp a.k.a Captain Jack Sparrow is currently in Queensland, halfway through filming the fifth movie in the popular Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Tapper waited for hours in the cold with a sea of fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the 51-year-old star before he was ferried away for a day of filming.