“My version of Dead Men Tell No Tales was set aside because it featured a female villain, and Johnny Depp was worried that would be redundant to Dark Shadows, which also featured a female villain.”
Bringing back alumni like Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, Dead Men Tell No Tales adds Javier Bardem to the fray as the swashbuckling villain Armando Salazar.
It turns out that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales was originally going to feature a female villain, before the idea was rejected by Captain Sparrow himself.
Find out what you think of the male Captain Salazar when Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales arrives this week.