FROM THE SET OF DEAD MAN'S CHEST

Check out the pictures at International Entertainment News at PaulKorda.com Palos Verdes, California, International Entertainment News by Paul Korda It was an interesting couple of days on the set of the sequel "Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest, seeing Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Jonathan Pryce after two years, since I worked on the first production. Since then my song "Pirates of the Caribbean" was No.6 in the UK MP3 pop charts and No.1 in the Europop charts, so it was good to be back with a source of inspiration. The Palos Verdes peninsular location, being the fort set on the first movie, had been converted from a fort to the scene of a wedding. I'm not going to give the story away, but I can tell you that it continues on from the first movie in a spectacularly dramatic and gut-renching manner, that makes you want to support the heroes again, in the trials and tribulations of these primaeval pirate times. Los Angeles, having seen three times the usual amount of rain and mud-soaked hillsides this year, just happened to be drenched once more in perfect time for the scene, which was a wedding in a tropical downpour. Keira, doing take after take in her long, rain-soaked dress had a gruelling time in the manufactured and real rain and mud. One of the redcoats handed me his jacket, at the end of the first day, and it was so heavy with water that I had a hard time lifting it up! I was again playing Governor Swann's dignatory, and was wardrobed in an even more campy, dandiesque outfit than in the first movie, an outfit that Adam Ant would have been proud of. Jonathan Pryce, who played the Governor, in his most gentlemanly British manner greeted me with my name, shaking hands, and remaining steadfast to his human nature. Gore Verbinsky, the director, dressed in raingear was busy plotting the jail scene for the evening shoot with Johnny Depp, while still shooting the current scene, and, in between takes of the current one, set construction was knocking down the doorway and replacing it with bars. No time wasted here. One movie started and one more to go. So stay with it!