Before they became the greatest pirates on the big screen, they went to school—Pirates School. And their teacher was the man who taught Darth Vader how to fight. That's Bob Anderson, an actual Olympic fencer who spent five decades choreographing Hollywood's best sword fights. He trained everyone from Errol Flynn to Viggo Mortensen for Lord of the Rings. On Pirates, he spent weeks with the entire cast—Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush—turning them into swashbucklers. Rush later said, "Bob understood acting with the sword". Oh, and that lightsaber duel between Luke and Vader? That was Bob in the suit. The man who taught pirates how to fight was the same man who fought Mark Hamill in a galaxy far, far away. The receipts are in the credits—and they're sharper than any cutlass. ⚔️