Holby's Luke wins role in Pirates of the Caribbean

Holby's Luke wins role in Pirates of the Caribbean
Holby's Luke wins role in Pirates of the Caribbean (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Holby City's Luke Roberts is quitting his role as surgeon Joseph Byrne to sail the high seas in Pirates Of The Caribbean 4. The soap hunk - who joined the BBC medical drama in 2005 - has landed a role alongside Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane and Geoffrey Rush in Hollywood blockbuster sequel Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Sun reports. Luke recently revealed he'd love to have more action scenes. Speaking about a Holby storyline in which his character had to perform surgery during a flash flood, he said: "It's fun for me, because my character's pretty starchy. I mean, I love Joseph dearly, but he's quite suit-wearing and nothing's out of place." It isn't known what kind of character Luke will play in Pirates 4, but the film is shooting on location in Hawaii for 10 weeks, as well as in Los Angeles and the UK. The film sees Depp's character Captain Sparrow set out on the hunt for the legendary fountain of youth.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.