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Brenton Thwaites discusses Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales role as Will Turner’s son

April 6, 2017 by Robert Kojder

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is still over a month away from its Memorial Day release, but Brenton Thwaites recently discussed what we can expect from his character Henry Turner, who has been revealed as the son of the returning Will Turner, once again played by Orlando Bloom.

Speaking to USA Today, Thwaites described Henry Turner as “a guy who wants to do good and help people. Us young men are always trying to break the curse of our fathers. It will never end.” While not a direct quote from the actor himself, the character is also said to have “belief in the supernatural and mythologies [that] gets him in trouble”.

SEE ALSO: Orlando Bloom’s Will Turner featured in new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales TV spot

Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazer (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea – notably Jack. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifully small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has never faced.

SEE ALSO: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales gets a batch of new images

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning (Kon-Tiki) and features returning stars Johnny Depp , Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Stephen Graham and Martin Klebba alongside new additions Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, David Wenham, Kaya Scodelario, Golshifteh Farahani and Paul McCartney. It is set for release on May 26th 2017.

Originally published April 6, 2017. Updated November 30, 2022.

Filed Under: Movies, News, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Brenton Thwaites, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

About Robert Kojder

Robert Kojder is Chief Film Critic at Flickering Myth. He is a Rotten Tomatoes–approved critic and a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association, and Online Film Critics Society.

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