Earning a living by resembling someone famous is a strange business. Here Madonna, Michelle Obama, Prince Charles and Johnny Depp offer some insights into what it’s like to look like someone else
It’s not always easy being Johnny Depp. That’s certainly the impression I get after an afternoon at the South Ayrshire home of Andy Macdonald: artist, musician and Scotland’s premier Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator. Depp’s recent legal entanglements mean Captain Jack didn’t carry quite the same pull he used to for a while. And no, the chaos of the pandemic years hasn’t helped either, slowing a once busy sideline even further down to zero.
Macdonald began his unusual career at a fancy dress party in the late-2000s, which he attended in his ordinary clothes. He hadn’t seen a single frame of a Pirates of the Caribbean film, but the other guests wouldn’t shut up about his likeness to Depp’s lead character.
