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Theme Park Jack Sparrow Recalls Arrrduous Gig

Disney actors face Kafkaesque maze of employment policies

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(Newser) – Salacious proposals from drunken damsels and stalkers equipped with Disneyland annual passes dot the treacherous seas an actor playing Disneyland's Jack Sparrow must navigate. A pirate who had some issues with Disney's innumerable rules, including forbidding the swashbuckler to mention rum or grow the signature Johnny Depp goatee, spills to Los Angeles magazine.

Costumed Jack Sparrows are indoctrinated with Disney regulations, including the proper approach to wannabe wenches: “See women as trouble.” One rule forbids being visually linked to another Disney character; a MySpace pic of the actor kissing the park's Little Mermaid got Sparrow into hot water, and he was eventually forced to walk the plank.

Pirates, ahoy!
Pirates, ahoy!   (KRT Photos)
Musician Keith Richards, the inspiration for the Jack Sparrow character, is shown here arriving for a screening of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
Musician Keith Richards, the inspiration for the Jack Sparrow character, is shown here arriving for a screening of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.   (Getty Images)
In this photo released by Disneyland, actors perform in the all-new interactive
In this photo released by Disneyland, actors perform in the all-new interactive "Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island" at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, May 25, 2007.   (AP Photo/Disneyland)
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