Why does geoffrey rush wear a hat

Audiences will delight at seeing another side to the greedy Barbossa, where his taste for opulence and gaudiness knows no bounds. The arrival of a new villain, Captain Salazar played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem , gives Barbossa a fresh rival to square off against. So, being on set with him is fantastic because he created a very intricate physicality for his character, who you have to believe has been imprisoned under the sea for 25 years.

Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Follow Us. In this film, he was given "two of the best props you could ever have been given. The other prop was in a sound stage 2 at the Walt Disney Studios , where an entire massive underground cavern with a lake was built. Rush was used to do the low-budget films and didn't get that spectacular, and felt the world around him and seeing it filmed with forty or fifty mean pirates was really thrilling.

Of the animal actors, Rush worked with by two identical Cabochon monkeys, a female and a male, whose naturally white faces had to be darkened with vegetable dye to make them look more evil and spooky.

Everyone else has human frailty and betrayal and jealousy and vanity; but the monkey knows we need to get each and every last medallion back into that case. Watching the actor at every stage as he got into his costume so that the animal understood that he was still working with Geoffrey, but just in character, was just one part of a very specific training process.

I thought, great, my co-star is difficult! On the subject of Barbossa's role in the film, Geoffrey Rush said, "I suppose if I stand outside and look at it, I go, 'Well, yes, you're playing the villain.

Because his dream was that we will lift this curse, I will have a fabulous prize pirate bride, and I will live happily ever after as a very rich rogue. Doesn't work out like that, for the villain. Since The Curse of the Black Pearl was such a huge hit during its release, Geoffrey Rush wasn't surprised to learn that Disney and Bruckheimer were planning on making more Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

But then came the call from director Gore Verbinski , who told Rush that they're shooting the second and third films together and that Barbossa was going to be brought back, "partly voodoo magic, partly movie magic. The actor was quite pleased to bring Barbossa back to life in Dead Man's Chest , particularly since he sees the films as considerably more than just popcorn entertainment, especially for younger viewers. The payoffs become even richer in At World's End when even more characters are introduced.

With Barbossa's return, you have a complex series of adventures. In At World's End these pirates have had their Golden Age of being free spirits, where they're not beholden to any government or national boundaries. And there is a definite awareness among them that this world is changing, becoming a much more mercantile environment.

With characters like Captain Jack and Barbossa, there's a sort of reluctant, mutual admiration society because they both realize that they're survivors. And in order to repay that debt, Barbossa had to gather the nine Pirate Lords and convince them to release Calypso. Because Barbossa was no longer the villain of the Pirates franchise, additional characters had to be invented, including Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones.

Geoffrey Rush also praised Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio for the idea of expanding the world by adding a sea monster and including Singapore and Asia ," Rush said. Exploring the mythology of pirate folklore. Rather than just sticking with the swashbuckling, drinking-rum-on-the-high seas end of the spectrum. Vincent and Capucine Point on Dominica , where the very first scenes shot on the re-designed and re-built Black Pearl —which had sailed almost 2, nautical miles from the Steiner Shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Alabama—were filmed, re-uniting Depp and Rush.

One of the last scenes filmed was the Maelstrom battle , "The Maelstrom is like the biblical whirlpool from hell, and we're shooting it the way Cecil B. DeMille probably would have," says Geoffrey Rush. Rush said, "They're waiting for the screenplay writers to put together something that's beyond the trilogy, take it off into a new direction so that it's fresh and hopefully really interesting for an audience, that they're not going to just sausage-machine out something else, which wouldn't be so good.

She's fiery, very feisty and very precise in her work. And I have to admit that I find those scenes fun to play too. Jack bobs along the river of life, improvising, taking huge daring risks which always pay off for him, even if he's being blown from one ship to another. He always lands and ends up looking like Bugs Bunny leaning against the mast. And it will ever thus be so, so that's a really fantastic actorial dynamic to engage with.

When Geoffrey Rush got the script for On Stranger Tides , he was pleased to see that the screenwriters had not only continued to grow the Pirates world but also extended Hector's journey. And in 'On Stranger Tides,' by the very fact that, deep in his nature, Barbossa is a very calculating survivor, he's got himself onto what he thinks is a very satisfying pension plan: because he's not getting any younger, he's joined forces with King George and has become a privateer.

In the third film, he had already revealed more of his devious, self-serving politician-type qualities, and not just being a mangy, old pirate. By 40, 50 years into the golden age of piracy, the various crowned heads of Europe were starting to look around, wondering who were the go-to guys. The pirates who can bring in the booty which we can then take, rather than having them taking it from us. I mean, just look at this character's costume. His pirate uniform was that of a gentleman from 50 years before.

I had the King Charles the Second look with the big hat and frock coat," Rush laughed. He's doing "Diary of a Madman" in Sydney. When I watched the awards with my Mom the other night she asked me why Geoffrey Rush was bald and if he had cancer.

I actually had a very vivid dream last night that he did have cancer but it had nothing to do with his recently shaved head. He had hair in my dream. I woke up distressed because I love and respect him so much as an actor and a person and it really got to me.

I dreamt I was preparing his house for a dinner party for his birthday and saw some test results sitting on a table in his lounge, which said he had between 6 days and 6 weeks to live. I went into the kitchen where he was standing, staring out of a window, put my hand on his shoulder and he just broke down in tears. I really hope this dream meant nothing but it scared the hell out of me. I've never met him and don't know him personally but I would be heart-broken if it were at all true I would too r12 if your less talented co-star was getting all the accolades.

Colin Firth plays the same character over and over and he's pudgy, pasty and not attractive at all. Geoffrey Rush was much better than Firth. Well he did not wear his hat to the Oscar so maybe that upset him. Oh no wait he did not win the award maybe THAT is what it was!!!!! Yes indeed, we too use "cookies. Otherwise, you'll just have to find some other site for your pointless bitchery needs. Become a contributor - post when you want with no ads! Does Geoffrey Rush have cancer?

Doesn't make sense.