In an interview that will appear in the January issue of Vanity Fair, Johnny Depp says Disney “couldn’t stand” his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He tells the interviewer, rocker Patti Smith, that one Disney executive even asked him if Captain Jack was gay. He replied, “All of my characters are gay,” and claims his answer “really made her nervous.” Ironically, the portrayal earned Depp his first Academy Award nomination, as well as a number of awards including one from the Screen Actors Guild for “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.” Depp recently completed work on a fourth Pirates movie entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which will arrive in theaters May 20, 2011.