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Last week, however, pupils at a school in south-east London experienced the kind of assembly they didn't have in my day.
Students were shepherded quickly into the gym as two cars with blacked-out windows parked in the playground, where a passerby reported hearing "screams of joy" as Depp, in full, leathery, dreadlocked, swaggering costume, entered the building, in response to a plea from nine-year-old Beatrice Delap.
"Captain Jack Sparrow," she'd written, in a note delivered to the Pirates of the Caribbean set, filming down the road at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. "At Meridian primary school, we are a bunch of budding young pirates and we were having a bit of trouble mutinying against the teachers and we'd love if you could come and help
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/10/johnny-depp-at-school-assembly
Last week, however, pupils at a school in south-east London experienced the kind of assembly they didn't have in my day.
Students were shepherded quickly into the gym as two cars with blacked-out windows parked in the playground, where a passerby reported hearing "screams of joy" as Depp, in full, leathery, dreadlocked, swaggering costume, entered the building, in response to a plea from nine-year-old Beatrice Delap.
"Captain Jack Sparrow," she'd written, in a note delivered to the Pirates of the Caribbean set, filming down the road at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. "At Meridian primary school, we are a bunch of budding young pirates and we were having a bit of trouble mutinying against the teachers and we'd love if you could come and help
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/10/johnny-depp-at-school-assembly
