Geoffrey Rush reveals his thoughts on the Barbossa twist in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The fifth installment in the long-running Pirates of the Caribbean franchise arrived this weekend, and it has already run up quite the take at the global box office, though it?s domestic gross hasn?t quite lived up to expectations. turns out, Rush loved the twist. He told Cinemablend that it was a proper way to tie into his backstory.
It?s a bit like the Dickens novels that, episode by episode, happen over a long period of time and the readers have a contribution to it. I liked that there was a kind of surprising secret from the past that he?s obviously been sitting on and I kind of looked back on the other four films to go, if I had that knowledge, if the writers hadn?t come up with that surprise background secret in his life, it all made sense. And I thought ?gee maybe that?s where Jack the monkey came from? it?s a repressed memory that?s found a substitute. Everything made sense.?
