At the World Premiere of the second Pirates movie, McNally alternated between signing autographs & posing for pictures for fans with talking to reporters on the media line which stretched the length of Disneyland's Main Street.
Kevin R McNally on Playing a Pirate: "It’s the best fun in the world. I just turned 50 but I realized as I turned it that I never grew up, so there’s nothing better for me to be doing than to be a pirate."
Trying to Top the First Pirates Movie: The first film hit it out of the ballpark so how difficult is it to live up to that standard? "Well, I like you saying that the first one hit it out of the ballpark," answered McNally. "We’re going to blow that one out of the water. ...I really feel that it’s [better]. Everyone is so into making the Pirates movies. We’re all so committed to making them as good as possible, once we got a chance to come back and do another one you thought, ‘Well, the world is our oyster now. We can do what we want and we can really make a good Pirate film.’ Hopefully we can do that again next year too."
The Freedom of Participating in a Sequel: Having The Curse of the Black Pearl to examine to determine what worked and what didn't really helped the cast and crew. "I think so because also the writers and director and Johnny had a very clear vision of what they wanted to do, even if other people didn’t see it, and they were proved absolutely right. So this time it was like, ‘Go and do that. Go and do that again,’ and we’ve done it 100%."
Never Mind the Stress: McNally says you don't even think about the stress of competing with the first film while doing the second and third. "You don’t think about that when you’re making it but certainly after we finished and I started thinking about building up to coming tonight, I thought, ‘Is it going to work?’ But the feedback I’ve had and the little bits I’ve seen when I’ve been working post-production I’ve got absolutely no worries that this is going to be even better than the first one."
Up Next - Scoop for Filmmaker Woody Allen: "I can’t tell the story because I don’t know the story," laughed McNally. "He only shows you your scenes. But I am very disappointed because I did have a scene where I ended up having to kiss and seduce Scarlett Johansson and then it got cut. How bad did I feel?"
The cut scene won't even make it onto the DVD. "It got cut before we shot it. I wouldn’t have minded if we shot it and they didn’t show it. I wouldn’t care (laughing). But I didn’t even get to kiss her."
McNally's Scoop Character: "I play a really sleazy film director. I’ve known plenty of them so I had plenty of people to think about." McNally didn't base his character on one director in particular. "No, I sort of melded about three of them together."
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