8 h, sep 10, 2020 y - DAILY EXPRESS Gana Bayarsaikhan Johnny Depp ‘really HUMBLE on set’ – His Waiting for the Barbarians co-lead on ‘KIND’ star

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Johnny Depp ‘really HUMBLE on set’ – His Waiting for the Barbarians co-lead on ‘KIND’ star

JOHNNY DEPP showed great humility on set, reveals his Waiting for the Barbarians co-star Gana Bayarsaikhan, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.

By GEORGE SIMPSON

Johnny Depp is best known for playing Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, but also shows off his eclectic acting chops across many movies. The 57-year-old most recently starred in Waiting for the Barbarians opposite Robert Pattinson, Mark Rylance and Gana Bayarsaikhan. And now the latter has shared just how humble and kind Depp was to work with, in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.

Depp stars as Colonel Joll, one of the film’s cruel villains, who inspects Mark Rylance’s Magistrate at a frontier outpost of an unnamed Empire.

Gana plays The Girl, a beaten colonised native, who the kind Magistrate takes pity on and cares for.

While most of the Mongolian star’s scenes were with Rylance, she shared one with Depp, which takes place with lots of extras after a torturing.

Gana described how Depp was “really humble” and “kind” on set.

She added: “Off camera, he talked to everyone, he was really nice.”

Gana’s role opposite the three Hollywood stars came about almost by chance.

The actress and model said: “My agent was with the casting director Leo Davis when she mentioned she was looking to cast a Mongolian actress.

“I had a meeting the very next day and then did a self-tape and met with the director Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald. I was told afterwards that JM Coetzee the author of the novel Waiting for the Barbarians wanted to cast me.”

On the 1980 novel of the same name, Gana recalled: “I started reading the book immediately before my first meeting with the casting director and used it as a reference for my character The Girl in both my audition and throughout the filming process.”

Asked, how she prepared to play a character who had been through so much pain, the star said: “The Girl is a victim of brutal torturing and imprisonment by oppressors in her own country.

“Even through all her suffering, she retained her dignity and strength.

“She is a survivor and her spirit is unbreakable.”

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