“There’s a great elegance and a great wit in this script”–Geoffrey Rush talks about PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4: ON STRANGER TIDES
October 29, 2010
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Posted by Part-Time Poet
Movie City News recently did a lengthy interview with Pirates of the Caribbean stalwart Geoffrey Rush, who plays Captain Hector Barbossa in the series. Rush speaks with great fondness of the POTC family: “I mean, we are now an 8-year-old team. It’s a very substantial family. We have had the same operators, the same DP, the same principal cast, the same makeup team. In all departments there is a great familiarity . . . we’ve had children born, we’ve had deaths, we had an extraordinary kind of thing going on.”
As for the current installment, On Stranger Tides, currently filming around London, Rush sees a kinship with the first Pirates film, The Curse of the Black Pearl. “For this one, I think they have gone back to the feel of the first one,” Rush says. “There’s a great elegance and a great wit in this script, and a simpler narrative. But it’s still got what I hope audiences will find intriguing. It’s got some big set pieces, like mermaids. I thought, ‘We haven’t done mermaids yet.’ Sailors were always being lured onto the rocks. The take on that is dramatically quite compelling,” Rush promises.
The Zone thanks RumLover for sharing the Geoffrey Rush interview. You can read much more about Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides on the Zone’s News & Views forum.
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