PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:
AT WORLD'S END
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You are shooting PIRATES 2 and 3 at the same time. Isn’t that confusing?

Hugely, yes.

Can you tell us just a little bit about that?

Well before the hiatus we were really only doing number two. In fact I didn’t do anything for three so that was great. We are now doing three at the moment and for the next couple of days and then we’re swapping back to two. So it does get a bit confusing and trying to talk about it here and trying to separate both of them is even more confusing. But we have been doing it in chunks, it’s not like we have been doing one day on two, one day on three. Like the last three weeks we have been on number three and then the next month as soon as we get to the Bahamas we will be on number two and then we will go back to number three. So it hasn’t been too bad. But it is a bit weird at the moment coming to the end of the number three chunk to suddenly try and get your head back in to number two. So in a funny kind of way it seems like one big long film as opposed to two separate films, which I suppose is a good thing, but it is a little strange.

Do you enjoy the time you film in the Caribbean or do you prefer being here in LA?

I prefer being here in LA. We go to some very beautiful places and we go to some not so beautiful places, I think you do end up getting island fever and especially if you are going to touristy islands. They are great for a couple of weeks and you go ‘oh look there’s the beach, this is lovely.’ And then you go ‘OK, what else? I’ve done the beach, I’ve done the sea, I have read all my books, I can’t do anything else!’ So it gets a bit difficult but in saying that it is beautiful and there are definitely much worse places. But I’m enjoying being in LA - I am a city girl so I like cities.

Does your mum come out here with you?

She is out here with me at the moment because I am doing so much press. I don’t have a weekend off for the next six weeks.

Does she manage your career?

No she has never done that since I started actually. She’s a writer, so she writes. She really is only there to hand me a cup of coffee occasionally. And be a mum (laughs) and tell me off!

A lot has happened in your career since the first PIRATES film.

Yeah, I’ve got a bigger trailer! (Laughs). That says a lot doesn’t it.

But does it feel like things have changed?
 
We made it in 2003 and yes stuff has changed. I mean I have been working non-stop for one thing, so that’s changed. But to tell you the truth the banter on set is exactly the same, so that hasn’t changed. You are working with the same people and it doesn’t matter if you have done a lot of films in between or not, they are going to treat you the same as they did. And know, that’s cool, that’s the way it should be. So the work hasn’t changed but the trailer has (laughs).

Do you have a personal assistant these days?

I do, he is over there.

You said in the past you didn’t want to get one because you are old enough to handle life yourself.

No I said I didn’t want to get one because I wasn’t old enough to handle my life and I wanted to learn how to. The answer to that is that I only have him when I am working. I don’t have him when I am not working, but it gets to the point if you are working back to back and you don’t have any days off. I have bought a flat, I have done stuff, I have got movies coming out at the moment, I can’t be on the phone all the time trying to co-ordinate everything and be doing my job in there. So I have got somebody who can co-ordinate stuff and so I don’t have to think about that he can just say ‘right go in this direction…’

But how do you keep in touch with real life if you are making movies all the time?

This is my real life. I don’t know what’s going on in your real life, I am sorry, but yes, I know what’s going on in mine.

Real life, meaning like what’s happening in politics, in the world.

Yes, some of it. I read newspapers if that’s what you mean, I don’t watch television, but yes, I think so. I have been waiting around in my trailer for hours so I have got to do something.

What else did you do when you had time off in The Bahamas?

I read a good biography on Lucrezia Borgia, I read a good book Hitler’s Bunker. I read a lot of scripts.

How do you choose a film?

I don’t know, it’s just whatever catches my fancy. If it is a film I think I would want to see and then that’s kind of a good way to judge it. And if you meet the director and you like them then that’s even a better way to judge it. But it just depends. I don’t pick it by genre, if I read a good comedy and I go ‘oh yeah, I’d really like to be a part of that,’ but equally it could be a drama. I don’t really have a plan; it’s just what jumps out at me.

Is there a sense that because the first PIRATES was such a big hit that you have to match it or better it this time?

For me personally, no. I mean I think there is a certain amount of pressure because it was so loved and you kind of want to make it as good as you possibly can. But I think that is really the same with any film. What’s nice is the level of excitement around PIRATES is huge and normally there isn’t that bigger level of excitement around anything you do until it comes out. But it’s quite nice to be in something where people go ‘so come on, what’s going to happen? Tell us what’s going to happen?’

What’s it like acting alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom?

It’s amazing, I mean, they are very beautiful. (Laughs) Yes it is very easy on the eye. And they are really great as well, they are lovely and watching Johnny work, you know it’s masterful really, it’s taking an acting master class, so that’s always enjoyable. And Orlando I have known for a very long time. We used to go up to things in London together so it’s really nice you know to spend time with him as well. He’s my mate, which is nice.

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