Anthony De La Torre – the guy who plays young Jack Sparrow in Pirates of Caribbean 5

The guy you see in the picture below isn’t Johnny Depp during his younger years, although it looks very much like it. This is Anthony De La Torre – a second generation Cuban-American from Bowling Green, Ohio, who a budding actor and musician and will soon be seen in the latest installment of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Source: Anthony De La Torre/Facebook

Anthony announced his involvement with the project through his Facebook page after being selected by Walt Disney Pictures to play the role of a young Jack Sparrow in the new sequel of the franchise.

“The word is out… I am the young Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Collaborating with Johnny Depp in creating this character was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life,” the young actor wrote on his Facebook page

Pirates of the Caribbean 5, which stars Johnny Depp playing the usual grown-up version of the good-old Jack Sparrow, will also feature the return of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reprising their respective roles of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, after their absence from the previous installment of the film-series.

Dead Men Tell No Tales is releasing in US theaters on the 26th of May.