Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow delights hospitalized children

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THE BLACK PEARL — Let it never be said that Jack Sparrow is a blackhearted pirate. For would a blackhearted pirate visit kids with cancer at an Australian hospital?

Children in the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, recently got a surprise from Johnny Depp in full costume and character as Captain Jack Sparrow, complete with his dirty pirate companion Scrum, played by actor Stephen Graham.

The main focus of the surprise was a young girl named Ula, who says in the video that she’s in the hospital getting treatments after she was diagnosed with cancer for a second time. As she waits for her surprise, she makes all sorts of off-the-wall guesses, but she’s strangely afraid that those in charge of the surprise are only going to scare her with spiders.

Depp was clued in on her fear, and when Ula comes face to face with him, he quips, “Hello, we’ve come to take you to the room of spiders,” the perfect opening line for a pirate.

Of course her shock and surprise are sweet and complete, and she beams during the video as she leads Sparrow and Scrum along the corridors to greet other children. It becomes obvious that Depp is just as delighted to see and interact with the children as they are to meet Jack Sparrow.

The video was produced as a sneak peek for an interview Ula does with Depp for Juice TV, a TV program created by children in the hospital for other young patients.

The interview will be posted Monday on Juice TV’s YouTube channel. Depp and Graham are in Australia filming the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, “Dead Men Tell no Tales.”