How Sir Paul McCartney act in film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

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Co-directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg explain all the details on Sir Paul McCartney's transformation to a pirate.
I've been waiting all morning in here for a beating, but the service is terrible.
Shame.
And cut.
Paul McCartney is an icon, he's one of the greatest musicians, songwriters, performers
alive, and we're very fortunate that he is friends with Johnny, and Johnny has done favors
for him, and so he's returned a favor to Johnny by being in this movie.
Don't listen to a word he says, it's not true.
I think we actually met in Hebrew school, wasn't it?
Yeah.
I am actually his rabbi.
And I'm a mohel.
You do a little bit of acting on the side?
Yes, sir.
I do a bit of music, you know, Friday nights.
Yeah, only on Friday nights.
I've known Johnny a while, you know, I always admired him as Jack Sparrow, and he said,
you know, I'd love you to be in the next one.
I said, what, me?
Pirates?
He says, yeah, you could do it, have a lot of fun.
So he wrote me in.
It was great.
Jack!
Jackie boy!
How's it going?
I'm loving it.
Yeah, I'm loving it.
I mean, you know, it's great songs.
He's done me a lot of favors in the past, he's been in some of my music videos, so,
you know, this is a way of repaying him.
Paul McCartney was a dream to work with.
He knew all his lines, he was funny.
Very used to cameras.
Yeah, I mean, and it was such a sacred moment, almost, you know, playing with him.
I think I could win with this one.
My character is Jack's uncle, who he was named after.
And I'm an old pirate awaiting execution, just like he is.
It runs in the family, I'm afraid to say.
The oceans are turned to blood, best to stay on dry land where it's safe.
I'm about to be executed on dry land.
Good point.
I started telling him about my Liverpool relatives, and I centered on this Uncle Jack of mine.
He said, well, yeah, channel Uncle Jack, you know.
So I told him a few stories, I said he always used to tell jokes.
Jack was the family joke teller.
And then last night before filming, we had a little meeting, a little bit to eat, and
a bit of wine.
And he kicked it around, Johnny come up with a load of ideas, I, you know, spun off it,
and I thought, okay, he's going to bed, he must be tired and everything.
But he immediately went back and typed the whole thing up, and he had it all as a script
this morning.
I'm very impressed.
Did I ever tell you the one about the skeleton?
Yes, you have.
Many times you've said it.
A skeleton goes into a bar, orders a beer and a mop.
Funny as ever.
Come on, let's go.
Oh, if they disembowel you, ask for Victor.
He's got the softest hands.
Thank you.
And mention my name, they won't cut your feet off.
He's killing it.
He's killing it and he's killing me.
I don't belong in the scene anymore.
How much singing do you want me to do?
The most emotional moment of that day, shooting with him, was that in the scene, in the beginning
of the scene, he sits and he sings a song.
Yeah, a little old Liverpool song.
Maggie, Maggie May, they have taken her away.
So great.
And at the end of the day, we needed what is called a wild take of that.
Here we go, guys, quiet, as quiet as we can.
Now the stage, please.
So basically everyone goes quiet in the studios.
It's a couple of hundred people, but it's all quiet.
And, you know, we sit with our headsets, and then we have Paul McCartney singing his song.
So we're basically recording Paul McCartney.
Oh, Maggie, Maggie May, they have taken her away.
And she never walked down Lime Street anymore.
To judge the guilty founder for robbing the homeward founder.
That dirty, no good robbing Maggie May.
It's just part of this adventure for us as filmmakers.
And, you know, Jack Sparrow's family tree is pretty cool, you know,
having Keith Richards as his dad and Paul McCartney as his uncle.
