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The Entertainers with Byron Allen

Byron Allen: Johnny. (shakes his hand)
Johnny Depp: Hey
BA: It’s good to see you. How are you doing?
JD: Great
BA: You know, you did a good job on ‘Pirates’. Did you have a good time doing that?
JD: Oh, unbelievable.
BA: Yeah
JD: Such a ball.
BA: Did you have a clue it would be so big?
JD: No, no, no…I had no expectations at all. I mean I hoped, but uh, You can never, you can never guess what it‘s going to be like…and I was really shocked. I’m still shocked.
BA: How’s the music coming along?
JD: I still play (Johnny just seemed to glow when Byron asked him that)
BA: Yeah
JD: Yeah, yeah. I still play.
BA: You’re writing?
JD: Uh, A little bit, I wrote, I did a piece for this, Mexico. I wrote one of the, um, I wrote a theme song for my character.
BA: Is that right?
JD: Yeah, Robert was really great. One day on the set He just asked me why don’t you write a theme, you know, a piece, for your character? So I kind of did just as a fun little side project
BA: Yeah
JD: and, uh, I sent it to him and he put it in the film and had it orchestrated and stuff, you know?. Yeah, it was really fun. (rolls to trailer)
BA: Well tell us about your character in this film.
JD: Agent Sands, uh, not a, not a nice guy. Not a nice guy at all. Uh, I think he’s a guy that’s very, very bitter having been, um, sent very far away from his other, his fellow agents in the CIA. A guy whose, yeah, sociopathic, you know, psychopathic, just , um, yeah, very, very damaged. And a guy who wants nothing more than to, uh, yeah, to wreck havoc and hurt people. (rolls to clip)
BA: How’s fatherhood treating you?
JD: Great (seems to start glowing again)
BA: Yeah. Anything you imagine it to be?
JD: Oh, beyond. I mean, way, way beyond. So much fun.
BA: How old now?
JD: My daughter’s 4, and my boy is, uh, 16 months.
BA: getting a full house?
JD: Oh yeah man. Yeah, he’s, he’s moving.
BA: Holidays? What are the holiday’s like for you?
JD: um I don’t know if parents ever get vacations, really. You know what I mean? (Laughs) um, because you know, There’s that, there’s that, part of you, you know, that says yeah, vacation is lying on the beach or on a deck of a boat, you know, with a stack of books next to you. You know, you don’t get that. You don’t get that. You’re chasing, you know, you’re chasing tiny drunks around.
BA: (laughing)
JD: Much more satisfying and much more fun. (rolls to the rest of the trailer)
BA: What’s next?
JD: Um, I’m working a thing right now called Secret Window, uh, which is a Steven King, uh, story, written and directed by David Koepp whose really great. And uh… um, next year there’s a thing called Neverland coming out, uh, with director Marc Forster and Kate Winslet.
BA: Alright man, I’ll let you get back to chasing those little drunks around. (shakes his hand)
JD: Yeah. (laughs)