1/18. Robert De Niro was originally offered the role of Captain Jack Sparrow. However, he turned down the role because he thought that the film would do poorly in box offices.





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2/18. Keira Knightley admitted that she constantly had to pad her chest in order to make it appear as though there was something there.

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3/18. Davy Jones tentacles were partially real and partially created by special effects.

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4/18. When Orlando Bloom was filming Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Rings in 2001, he got an elvish tattoo on his right wrist. It is covered during most of the Pirates films, but is mistakenly revealed when he raises his right arm in the sword fighting scene in Curse Of The Black Pearl. You can also see it later in the movie when he reaches out to grab the medallion from Elizabeths chest.

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5/18. Keira Knightley felt very under-qualified for the role of Elizabeth Swann. She packed as little as possible when she left to start filming because she was convinced that she would be fired within the first few days of production.

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6/18. During filming, Johnny Depp wore contact lenses that acted like sunglasses so he wouldnt have to squint while facing the sun.

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7/18. In At Worlds End, the scene where Jack the Monkey is shivering was accomplished via a joint effort between animal trainers and the special effects team. Animal trainers taught the monkey how to sit with her arms crossed, while the special effects team made a small wooden barrel with a vibrating plate on top.

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8/18. In Curse Of The Black Pearl, chocolate powder was used to replicate dirt on William Turners face during the sword-fighting scene.

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9/18. During the filming of On Stranger Tides, Johnny Depp spent over $60, 000 out of his own pocket to buy waterproof jackets for 500 crew members to protect them from the cold, wet weather.

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10/18. Geoffrey Rush was afraid that people wouldnt notice him on screen when he and Keira Knightley were in the same scene. He came up with a solution, however. He thought that viewers watched films the same way they read books - from left to right - and thus, tried to be on the left side of the shot as much as possible so that people would notice him before they noticed Keira.

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11/18. The names of the three main characters are all related to birds: Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann, and William Turner, who was a famous ornithologist.

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12/18. Johnny Depp based his performance on Keith Richards because he thought that pirates were just 18th century versions of rockstars.

(Richards would later make an appearance as Jack Sparrow's father in the film series)

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13/18. The screenwriters who wrote Aladdin were the same screenwriters who wrote Pirates Of The Caribbean. After Aladdins production, not a single production company picked it up until 2001, when Disney wanted to make a film based on their Disneyland ride, Pirates Of The Caribbean, which had opened in 1967.

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14/18. Keira Knightley was only 17 years old when they started shooting the first Pirates Of The Caribbean. Because she was a minor, her mother had to accompany her to all of the shooting locations.

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15/18. If you pay attention throughout The Curse Of The Black Pearl, there is a scab on Jack Sparrows chin that gradually gets bigger and bigger. This was a prank he and his makeup artist had thought of together.





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16/18. In Curse Of The Black Pearl, when The Black Pearl is sieging the town, the last cannon shot billows into a Mickey Mouse-shaped cloud as an homage to Disney.

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17/18. The moment when Elizabeth kissed Jack Sparrow in Dead Mans Chest was purposefully cut out of Orlando Blooms script so that the cameras could get a genuine, shocked reaction from him.

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18/18. In Curse Of The Black Pearl, Johnny Depp improvised some of his last lines including the notorious, bring me that horizon.

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