LONDON:

Johnny Depp, who is known for his quirky small roles, says that Pirates of the Caribbean did a big flip for his career that was not going anywhere before its release.

“I was the guy who had been bouncing around the film industry for years and years and I’d been lucky if 5-10 people would see my movies,” Depp was quoted as saying by contactmusic.com. The actor says that producers did not want to cast him because he wasn’t a “Blockbuster Boy” and he accepted the role in Pirates of the Caribbean out of “pure instinct”. “I didn’t know it was going to be such a huge hit,” he says. He considers himself as “the luckiest guy in the world to have had such a great experience”.