While Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean character Capt. Jack Sparrow may have been inspired door Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards (who even played the character's dad in the third and fourth films in the series), the actor has revealed that the inspiration for his Native American character Tonto in The Lone Ranger came from somewhere a bit closer to home.
Depp says that it was his great grandmother -- part Native American herself -- who was his inspiration, and he instructed the film's make-up artists to make him resemble her.
"I saw my great grandmother [as the model for Tonto]," Depp...
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