Beatrice Delap, a nine-year-old student from south-east London’s Meridian Primary School, wrote to Captain Jack Sparrow asking for help staging a ‘mutiny’ against the teachers. Any guesses what happened next? The letter did reach Johnny Depp, who is currently filming scenes for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the nearby Royal Naval College, and he actually turned up at the school in Greenwich, south-east London, dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow!
Heat Magazine reports,
Delivered to the film crew by Pat, ‘from the school office’, the letter was quickly forgotten about. However, the letter did indeed reach the right hands. Days later, and with only 10 minutes warning of Johnny Depp’s arrival, the teachers found themselves quickly frog-marching the kids into Meridian primary school’s main hall for a special assembly, which Captain Jack Sparrow and four of his crew members duly invaded!
“Johnny Depp walked in dressed as Captain Jack,” explained wee Beatrice, “there were gasps and screams. He pulled my letter out of his pocket and said he was going to frame it. Then he called me down and gave me a hug.” Depp then spent another 15 minutes or so jigging about the school stage with his piratey pals for the school kids, “he said the pirates were going to take over the school and only eat candy and our teeth would turn black and fall out,” added Beatrice, “but he said we shouldn’t mutiny against the teachers because there were police outside and we might get in trouble.”
Now, this is one amazing piece of news! I’ve been a huge fan of Johnny Depp since his Edward Scissorhands days – long before he donned Captain Jack Sparrow’s costume for the first time – and now I feel like patting my own back for the wise choice. Depp is a real gem. And that little girl has to be the luckiest girl in the world!
