With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
My family were from Jamaica.
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.
I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.
'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!
So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.