I almost got fired from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’: Johnny Depp

“They wanted to fire me. I fully expected to be fired, and I got a call from the upper echelon at Disney who were courageous enough to ask me, ‘What are you doing?’,” he said.

Amused, Depp recalled how producers of the now-blockbuster franchise hated how he appeared to slur his words and mumble on-screen.

“The questions came up, ‘Is (the performance) drunk?’. I really expected to be fired, but I wasn’t for some reason. They were actually gonna put subtitles under my character. They couldn’t understand Captain Jack,” Depp said.