"He means an enormous amount to me. He is one of very few actors on screen today, who's truly a star. Everything he does has a meaning. He's a joy to work with, an actor's dream and certainly a director's dream."
- Christopher Lee on Johnny Depp
While filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Australia in 2015, Johnny Depp sponsored and bottle-fed an orphaned baby red flying fox bat named βJackie Sparrow.β After visiting the Australian Bat Clinic & Wildlife Trauma Centre, he became fond of the tiny bat and helped fund its care until it was healthy enough to be released back into the wild.