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REEMI - Long Johnny Silver: Depp says ahoy to a `Pirates' life
By DAVID GERMAIN LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Admit it. You always knew Johnny Depp was a pirate at heart. A mutineer on the good ship Hollywood, Depp always has rowed to a different beat, bucking magazine-cover stardom in favor of challenging roles and full-blooded, fringe-dwelling characters. Off screen, Depp had a party-animal reputation early in his career and has maintained a buccaneer's defiance toward the type of parts big studio movies generally had to offer. Just the sort to relish playing a hooligan of the high seas in an 18th century pirate flick. But one based on a Disney theme-park attraction and produced by blockbuster baron Jerry Bruckheimer? "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" has more straight-ahead Hollywood sheen than anything Depp has tried before, an action-packed summer adventure for parents and kids alike. And for all Depp's standoffishness about big Hollywood, the filmmakers had him in mind from the start. "Weird," Depp said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I was completely shocked. It came out of nowhere. A Disney-Bruckheimer thing, big budget. You wouldn't think, or at least I didn't think, that they would be thinking of me first." "Pirates," directed by Gore Verbinski, felt "kind of like infiltrating the enemy camp," said Depp, though he added that he never consciously avoided big Hollywood productions. "It was more, I think, I've made it pretty clear in terms of the work that I've done what it is I do and what I like to do with characters," said Depp, who turned 40 in June. Seemingly just the latest TV pretty boy when he emerged in the late 1980s on the youth-culture cop series "21 Jump Street," Depp soon rebelled against what he called assembly-line entertainment. He had stumbled into acting a few years earlier with a small part in "A Nightmare on Elm Street," which came up as he and his rock band were struggling to make ends meet in Los Angeles. Near the end of his "Jump Street" gig, Depp signed on for cult-flick maestro John Waters' "Cry-Baby," a half-serious, half-satiric revival of '50s rock 'n' roll rebel melodramas. Depp then jumped into a string of films playing idiosyncratic outsiders, including "Edward Scissorhands," "Benny & Joon," "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "Ed Wood," "Don Juan DeMarco" and "Dead Man." "Donnie Brasco" in 1997 caught Depp a wave of praise that most actors would have tried to parlay into bigger paychecks in ever-bigger movies. Instead, Depp plowed on with his resume of weirdoes, playing gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"; crime solver Ichabod Crane pursuing a headless horseman in "Sleepy Hollow"; a gypsy guitarist in "Chocolat"; a '70s cocaine kingpin in "Blow"; an opium-addicted detective hunting Jack the Ripper in "From Hell"; and two roles in "Before Night Falls," a South American cop and a transvestite. Coming this fall is a role as a corrupt CIA agent -- "a real slimeball," Depp calls him -- in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," which stars Antonio Banderas and completes the gunslinger trilogy writer-director Robert Rodriguez began with "El Mariachi" and "Desperado." "The best-written part was that character. It was amazing to see how he took it to another 10 levels," Rodriguez said of Depp. "If he'd just come in and played it right off the page, it would have been a great part, but he really gave it another life." Depp "is one of the few actors of his generation who has made a concerted effort not to be a movie star. He's an artist," said Dustin Hoffman, co-star of next year's "Neverland," a film biography in which Depp plays "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie. Even on a big commercial picture such as "Pirates of the Caribbean," Depp managed to put his eccentric stamp on his character, Jack Sparrow, a pirate captain seeking to regain his ship, which has been commandeered by a crew of blackhearts doomed by a supernatural curse. Sparrow could have been the typical dashing rogue. But imbued with Depp's quirks and tics, he's a pirate who sashays instead of struts, with a cobbled-together fashion sense that includes dreadlocks and loads of trinkets in his hair. For the filmmakers, Depp brought not only a willingness to hurl himself into the swashbuckler's role, but also a depth and integrity that helped lift "Pirates" above its Disneyland roots. "We felt it needed an actor whose presence would tell you it's not just a movie about a theme-park ride," producer Bruckheimer said. "Johnny Depp does that. He has such an interesting body of work behind him that you know you're getting something more." MORE INTERVIEWS FURNISHED BY THE FANS - Vicki - Entertainment Weekly article 7/25 DEPP PERCEPTION In Hollywood, Johnny's considered an idiosyncratic talent Up until its No. 1 opening, Disney's ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' had all the markings of this summer's biggest potential flop. The first bad omen was right there in the title -- it was a freakin' pirate movie. And not just any pirate movie, but one that cost $135 million. Hadn't we learned anything from ''Cutthroat Island,'' the 1995 Geena Davis-Matthew Modine shipwreck that cost nearly $100 million and barely grossed $10 million? Warning sign No. 2 was that the project appeared to be another cynical bit of corporate synergy, a movie inspired by a theme-park ride -- the same Mouse House strategy behind the wince-inducing ''Country Bears.'' And if that wasn't enough, doomsayers could simply point to the name on top of the marquee: Johnny Depp. Long regarded as one of Hollywood's most talented and idiosyncratic actors, Depp's box office history has featured more plank walking than booty plundering. Aside from 1999's ''Sleepy Hollow,'' Depp has never starred in a film that cracked $100 million. It's no accident. Depp may be the only A-list star who seems to deliberately hide behind angora sweaters (''Ed Wood''), unintelligible mumbles (''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''), or movies so hapless and weird they never even get released (like Depp's own notorious directorial debut ''The Brave,'' which was hissed so loudly at Cannes in 1997 that it never even bowed Stateside). ''He's not interested in stardom,'' says Robert Rodriguez, director of Depp's next film, ''Once Upon a Time in Mexico.'' ''I don't think he's ever needed it or ever wanted it.'' Depp's been working nonstop for nearly 20 years. To sustain that kind of longevity, most actors aim to establish box office clout. But while Depp's A-list contemporaries like Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage have rigged their careers with the help of blockbusters, Depp -- a Hollywood outsider who lives in France -- has careered from oddball role to oddball role, cherrypicking parts based on whim and instinct. Says director Marc Foster, who cast Depp as Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Miramax's upcoming ''Neverland,'' ''He's one of these very rare individuals who tried really hard not to be a movie star. He does whatever he's passionate about and he really doesn't make his decisions based on money or anything like that.'' It's a quality that gives Depp street cred with other actors and makes him a role model as well. ''I think he's brave and completely willing to do things other actors wouldn't do because of vanity,'' said ''Sleepy Hollow'' costar Christina Ricci. ''He won't hold anything back because of ego. He's interested in doing a good movie and a good character and doesn't care how he comes off.'' Now, given the $70.6 million ''Pirates'' took in during its first five days, will big-time producers embrace -- rather than run from -- Depp's unique weirdo charm? ''Pirates'' producer Jerry Bruckheimer may have just given them a map for how to use the actor. ''I wanted to send a message to the audience that this is not your typical Disney movie,'' he says. ''When you see Johnny Depp you think of 'Edward Scissorhands,' you think of 'Blow,' you think of 'Donnie Brasco' -- they're not mainstream movies. They're edgy. That's what I wanted, that sense of 'Wait, what the hell are they doing?''' The result of all this? Box office bankability for a star who's never sought it. Says Depp's longtime agent, UTA's Tracey Jacobs, ''I think that with this movie and this opening he gets his props, to be real blunt about it.'' Bruckheimer agrees: ''It tells the Hollywood community that he can get a big movie opened. And that's very important for an actor.'' The question is, does it even matter to Depp? In a summer marked by superhero fatigue and sequels nobody asked for, the sweetest irony of all may be this: Right now, in the south of France, America's No. 1 star probably couldn't care less. (With additional reporting by Daniel Fierman, Jeff Jensen, and Dave Karger) Emma -
Secret Window Johnny Depp caught in a artifical snowstorm in Sainte-Catherine
Francis Higgins Sainte- catherine – Sainte-Catherine rediscovered a little of its winter colours shooting a snowstorm for a film staring Johnny Depp. During the nights of Wednesday and Thursday, Grand Slam Productions shot winter sequences at the Frandy motel, on road 132. For the occasion, the establishment was covered with artificial snow and was renamed Irv' s Lakesider motel. The American actor Johnny Depp was on the spot for interior and external scenes of the full-length film Secret Window. The star of Donnie Brasco, ED Wood, Don Juan de Marco and Edward Scissorhands worked all night long. After sunset, Wednesday evening, the crew shot scenes in a car and at the motel reception. A small crowd had gathered together around the well guarded set. However, fences and trucks harmed the visibility. The storm remained light. Large fans pushed a little artificial snow in front of the cameras. White fabrics and crushed ice had been put on the ground.
From a Stephen King short story This story is based on the short story ‘ Secret Window, Secret Garden’ from American writer Stephen King, taken from his collection 2 past midnight. The film is written and directed by David Koepp. The latter scripted Spiderman, Misson Impossble, The Panic Room and Jurassic Park. Mr. Depp was the only actor present in Sainte-Catherine. The other known actors from the film are John Turturro (Quiz show), Maria Bello (Ugly Coyote) and Timothy Hutton (The General’s Daughter). With this film, he returns to the kind of eerie thriller that he knows well since The Ninth Gate, The Astronaut’s Wife and From Hell.
The biggest shoot at the Frandy One month ago, all the rooms were reserved from the 15 to July 18. In addition to the snow covering the ground, the motel sign was replaced, the doors repainted, the reception room redecorated etc. The owner Georgette Ferland-Girard was a little discouraged by of all these transformations. Besides, she did not know if the deal would be profitable, even if the producers had assured her that all will return to normalcy as before. She preferred to wait for the end of work to tell how much money this shoot will bring her. Ms Ferland-Girard appreciates that this film will not give her great visibility since the name of the business was changed. Besides, she added not to need any advertising. In spite of everything, she understood that her motel constitutes a good place to film. " Where are they going (the producers) to find a more beautiful place than here?, she ask. We are located in a beautiful place and we have beautiful large grounds." She adds that stars hardly ever impress her. Besides, she does not know Johnny Depp. The producers offered the motel’s neighbours a night in a hotel during filming. They also covered their swimming pools so that the artificial snow didn’t fill them. Several of these neighbours preferred to stay at home in spite of the hubbub. "I have lived here 30 years and nothing has ever happened. I will not go away now! ", one of them uttered. MacFluff - Found this in the UK London Times for 7/27: Truly madly Depp: The taming of Johnny Depp, from wild man to doting dad He's the rock'n'roll movie star who has veered between sanity and self-destruction, trashed his hotel room and attacked the paparazzi. So why is Johnny Depp giving up his hard-man image? Interview: Chrissy Iley Johnny Depp enters the room, a walking urban myth, a bad boy with confusion in his soul and love tattoos all over his eloquent torso, a legacy to many love bonds. His most terrifyingly intense love seemed to be with Kate Moss. It began with him filling a room full of daisies, but ended with her in rehab - and was quickly followed by first-sight passion with Vanessa Paradis. Three months into that relationship, Paradis was pregnant. Now, two children later (Lily-Rose, five, and Jack, one), he's full-on with fatherhood, saying that the birth of his little girl was 'not just the greatest thing that's ever happened to me - it's the only thing that's ever happened to me. I helped give our daughter life, and I feel she gave me life'. He's warm, but not soft. He has a rip in his jeans that reeks rock'n'roll hero, and we're sitting in a smart hotel room in Los Angeles that must be similar to the room at The Mark hotel in Manhattan that he famously trashed. 'I was having a bad day. Those days happen. Some guys hit things, bust something up, or go to the gym and take it out on the hitting bag. Had that hotel installed a bag, we'd never have had a problem,' he says, with a very sweet smile revealing four glittery gold teeth that he had fitted for his role in Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl. There are many myths about him that turn out to be true, such as the one about him chasing some paparazzi down a street with a large block of wood. 'I asked the cops if I could have the block of wood back at the end of my little stint in the custody suites. They wouldn't let me have it. It was well worth it, going to jail that night. I didn't mind.' He settles into telling the tale of that night. He tells it like a bedtime story. 'It was an invasion. To make a long story short, my girl and I were in London. I was doing Sleepy Hollow. We had some friends who'd come in from Texas. My girl was six months pregnant and we were celebrating the fact that we were going to have a baby. Somebody recommended this restaurant [Mirabelle], so we went there, and there was wine and we drank the wine. We were about to leave, and someone came up and said, 'Listen, there's a gaggle of paparazzi outside, so if you go through the kitchen, we can take you out of a side door.' And I said, 'Let's do that.' But they were waiting for us, so I said to Vanessa, 'I'm going to keep them busy. You guys go around to the front and get in the car and I'll stop them getting a photograph of the belly,' because that's what they wanted, that's where the money is. 'I told them, 'Listen, I know the photograph you want. You're not going to get it. Not tonight. Just let it go tonight. I don't want to be a novelty tonight.' They were really rude and said, 'We're going to get the picture. You can't escape,' and it just happened that there was this block of wood on the ground. I guess it was a doorjamb, so I grabbed it, and the guy who was trying to pull the door open, I smacked his hand with the wood. He recoiled, and I said, 'Now I want you to take a picture. I'm going to cave in your skull with this hunk of wood,' and miraculously, no one took my photograph. It was becoming more surreal. I made them walk backwards down the street because I wanted to humiliate them. So they walked backwards, they looked really stupid, and I guess one of them had made a call to the cops. As soon as the cops arrived, they started taking photographs again, but it was worth it. Surreal, poetic, fun.' All this because he didn't want to be a novelty, a product. He's said that before, many times. When he first got into acting, it was something that he did while he was trying to make his rock'n'roll band, the Kids, work out, but he never got a deal. He got a part as a clean-cut cop, the good guy, sexy and cute, always very clean, in the TV series 21 Jump Street. He hated being this cutesy. He wrote later that he felt 'plastered, postered, postured, patented and plastic, stapled to a box of cereal, novelty boy, franchise boy, no escape'. He wrote this in the foreword to Burton on Burton, the autobiography of Tim Burton, who directed Depp in the lead roles of Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, and was his way out. 'Well,' says Depp now, rolling up another cigarette in brown liquorice paper. 'I haven't had so many bleak periods lately. Becoming a dad, you don't. It was something that was frustrating when it mattered.' And now it doesn't matter so much, being a product? 'Not so much. Kids give you that kind of perspective, that kind of strength. It mattered before, the idea that whatever you do, you were just this thing.' The contradiction of doting daddy and wild man sit very comfortably within him. He's part Cherokee Indian, 40 years old, but looks about 30. In the movie, he has decorated dreadlocks and a very fancy goatee. In real life, he has longish hair, below chin-length, one of those knitted fez hats, dark-rimmed glasses, trimmed-up facial hair, a few raggedy layers of shirt, and skull-and-crossbones rings. His childhood was more gypsy than pirate; the youngest of four, born to working-class parents in Kentucky, eventually shimmying down to Florida, not making friends easily because he preferred to be weird. He saw a fire-eater at a circus and, at 12, he almost set himself ablaze trying to emulate the act. He has often said he's really only a musician and everything else about his career was an accident. 'When I was a little kid, that was always my dream. I remember when I was 12 years old, puberty kicking in. You start to get interested in girls and things are going on in school and there's weirdness in your home life and you're embarrassed to be seen with your parents. That's when I got a guitar and everything else disappeared. It saved me. I locked myself in my room and taught myself how to play. Of course, that 12-year-old kid is enthusiastic about rock'n'roll, but it was really just about the playing. That was the great escape for me.' He was 15 when his parents split up, and he says: 'I was pretty much ready to leave myself, and did so not long after that. They'd had a fairly prickly relationship for a number of years, so on the one hand it was a relief, and on the other hand it was a radical change for my mum and she got very ill, so there was never any time for that kid to feel bad about his parents splitting up because the kid in me had to go straight for the mum, to look after her, to make sure she was going to be okay. But that happens with me, wanting to take care of people, make sure that everybody's okay.' Johnny Depp got married when he was 20, to a make-up artist called Lori Allison. 'Yes, it just kind of happened. It seemed the right thing to do at the time, but at 20 years old, you're kids.' And was that such a bad experience that it turned you into the serial fiancŽ, that you can never go through the actual ceremony again? 'No,' he says. 'Once again, this is a myth, the serial fiancé. I was engaged a couple of times to a couple of different girls. Every time I had a girlfriend, it was, 'They're engaged.'' Most commonly attributed fiancées are Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Tally Chanel, Kate Moss and Winona Ryder. And what about the myth of the Winona Forever tattoo? 'Yes, I have a tattoo on my arm that now says 'Wino Forever'.' He peels back his denim shirt to reveal the botched tattoo with the last two letters erased. His and Kate's love was perhaps more indelible. He says wistfully: 'She's a good girl. I'm really happy for her that she has a kid.' Do you talk? 'No. I haven't seen her. It's been quite a while. But someone told me she had a kid and I was ecstatic for her. I think she'll be a great mum.' I remind him that after he and Kate split up, he said there was a part of him that really missed her and he kept wondering why they weren't together and starting a family. 'I don't remember saying that exactly.' There's a silence, but it's more sad than awkward. He's not trying to avoid the issue, but it's obviously causing him pain and he says very slowly: 'I don't know. At a certain point, I don't think I was very good for her. I don't think I was very good for Kate, so we did what was right and walked away from each other. She went on to bigger and better things,and I went on and fell in love and had kiddies.' Do you believe in love at first sight? I ask, providing him with a crossroads: he can segue into Vanessa now. 'I believe in something at first sight, absolutely,' he says. 'But you can never truly love a person till you know them. You have this feeling, but you can't really explain it. I had that when I first saw Vanessa. When I met up with her again, I saw her across a room, just her back, and it was an instant sort of, 'Oh my God, what's happening?' But then I had no way of knowing how great a person she was, and how great a mother she would turn out to be. She's unbelievable.' I get the feeling that Vanessa becoming a mother really does clinch it for Depp. He loves his own mother very deeply, has a tattoo for her too, in that full bad-boy tradition. Vanessa also gave him the opportunity to be a father, which seems to be the biggest hero role he ever wants to play. You said that becoming a daddy completely changed you. How did that manifest itself? 'I think that the poor bastard who was stumbling around for many years shed outer layers of bullsh--, and finally I was able to see clearly, to see the truth, to understand, at least on some level, what it's all about. People talk about career, success, money, and equate that with happiness, and it never made any sense to me.' And you felt forced to go along with it? 'I did and I didn't. I kept doing movies, but I wouldn't say that I'd made the wisest choices in terms of career from a businessman's point of view.' There are a slew of multi-million-dollar blockbuster parts he turned down, such as career-breaking stints in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise, and Coppola's Dracula. 'Yeah, there were some things that might have made a whole lot of money - sick money. That's not what I was after. Money's a good thing and a bad thing, but to do something just for the money - I haven't arrived at that place yet. The beauty is, I don't have any regrets about the stuff I've done. There might have been things that I could have done better or smarter.' Are we talking business or relationships? 'Just in life. I could have done things differently. I made mistakes, but that's how you learn.The years that I went through life existing without living, poisoning myself, trying to numb and medicate myself, were really just a great waste of time. It was never about recreation. It was about numbing.It feels good to finally be away from that now,' he says, his pirate's gold teeth glinting with irony. Was there a final straw that made you say you didn't want to be numb any more? 'Yes, I think things happen in life that you experience. Either you're at the centre of a storm, or you're on the outskirts and you feel a cold wind. But it's later on that everything starts to make sense. The things that happened over a lot of years were awful, devastating, hideous. I lost a lot of friends.' He's mumbling softly. He lost his friend River Phoenix to a drug-overdose death outside the Viper Room, the LA club he owned. 'I wanted to escape and now I want to survive and experience things. Having kids certainly changed me.' Do you do total sobriety? 'No I don't. But no substance abuse. No drugs. No hard liquor. My whisky days are pretty much over. I have a glass of wine now and again. I have Irish and Indian blood,' he says, like he can't help himself. He can't be a really good boy, but he perks up and says: 'Hence, the 'Wino Forever'.' I tell him that I once downed a very rare bottle of port, only three bottles left in the world, and the owner of the vineyard said Johnny Depp had just paid £2,000 for one of the other two. 'Quite possible,' he says. 'I was with a friend, a photographer; we used to draw together and paint. One night we bought a 1908 port, a Taylor. We bought it and drank it that night in an hour. It was perfect and amazing, like drinking history. It actually made us paint better, which is nice.' Depp still likes to paint, and as he still likes wine, it's fortunate that he's based no longer in Hollywood but in the south of France. 'I went to France to do the Roman Polanski movie, The Ninth Gate. That's when I met up with Vanessa again, and three months later she was pregnant, so it was like, 'Okay, what do you want to do? Raise kids in that violent, weird atmosphere, or a place where there's world culture, quality of life, simplicity?'' Everything changed in those few months. A lot of people have met the right girl, but at the wrong time. Do you think Vanessa was the right girl at the right time? 'I don't know. I can remember thinking the last thing in the world I wanted was a relationship, but it was impossible to escape. I was gone.' Are you romantic when you're in love? 'I don't know. You'll have to ask her, but certainly I do things to make her happy, feel good. I want to do that with my mum, my sisters, my friends - so certainly with Vanessa, yes.' So why do people think Depp is a troubled bad boy? He doesn't seem bad to me. He's probably the most charming person I've ever touched the tattoos of. He's funny, kind, and gives himself totally in every moment. So tell me about the bad-boy myth? 'That's so strange. I really don't get that. Another one about myself was that I rented a room in London at a hotel and filled the bath with champagne, and I thought, 'Man, that's a good one. I'll let that one be.'' I tell him that that particular urban myth has a part two. The champagne was Cristal, and when you and your inamorata - who at that time was Kate Moss - went to have a drink in the bar, the maid came in and let the bath water out. 'Mmm. You'd think we'd just kind of lean in and lap it up, wouldn't you? I like that story. That would be good if it had happened. I wish it had. I'd like to fill a bathtub with Cristal,' he says. MacFluff - For those of you not in the UK, here's the Movie Insider stuff: When was the last really good pirate movie? If you say Hook I'm going to hunt you down and punch you in the pelvis. Regardless of whether you fell for Roman Polanski's overblown Matthaw epic or feel like Captain Blood was the last flick worth its rotgut, the bottom line is that it seems the harder a filmaker tries to give the genre a burst of vitality, the more underwhelming the results. Actually, last year's The Count of Monte Cristo had some really good pirate moments but Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski's new film is so head and shoulders above its competition that I felt I needed to pinch myself afterwards. Thankfully going above and beyond the concept of its admittedly entertaining theme park counterpart, The Curse of the Black Pearl centres around a mythic ship of supernatural pirates, a vengeful stack of treasure, and a trio of attractive people whose lives and fates hinge on the former. Channelling his Hunter S Thompson performance one more time, Johnny Depp chews the scenery with gusto as the not-so-dreaded pirate Jack Sparrow. Seemingly a few rocks short of a quarry and on the tail end of a Captain Morgan binge, Depp's character is as fun a scoundrel as we've seen in many a moon and the presence of an actor of his skill goes a long way towards giving the film credibility. His performance is a blast and any fears I had of him phoning in his role were quickly dashed. Orlando Bloom does an admirable job in his first big role not wearing elven ears and while he's often the straight man to Depp's wonderful ham, he's a stabilising force. Keira Knightley is a convincing modern woman (for the time) and is fully believable as a lady that men would risk their lives for. Surprisingly and thankfully, she's given more to do than personify the generic damsel in distress. Geoffrey Rush, like Depp, is wonderful. With good actors doing good work, a film like this stays buoyant even if the spectacle fails. The spectacle far from fails, but honestly ... once I saw the name Gore Verbinski attached as director I knew it wouldn't. Mouse Hunt and The Ring were exceptionally shot films, and it was unlikely that Bruckheimer muscle and Disney firepower would go unused for a film this big. Broadsides and boarding parties, pirate crews that bounce from human to ghastly skeletons under the moonlight, ship-to-land sieges, and tons of clashing swords are the order of the day - and it is seamless. Rarely do storytelling and entertainment override the pretty pictures and breathtaking stuntwork, but this is a seamless film. It moves along at its own pace tossing in a twist or two, and while it may be a little longer than some would expect (two ladies who lunch leaving the theatre couldn't help saying how long it seemed, but there's a reason they don't review films), it never wears out its welcome. Also, the film is definitely not for little kids, which allows it to have fun with the seedy and violent pirate nature, resulting in what is almost the Star Wars of pirate movies. It's just about as solid a summer film as we can ask for. Verdict: A thrilling, swashbuckling blast of a film. Entertaining, loaded with spectacle, and anchored with some terrific performances, this Curse is anything but. Our favourite film of the summer so far. Score: 9 out of 10. Nelson Deppfan Translation of an article at Hola Hoy.
July 11/2003 The actor has managed to summarize an enviable career in Hollywood. Later if there it is stolen the heart of millions of adolescents with the series "21 Jump Street", Johnny Depp did bits their image of gallant dedicating the following years to do as much as project risked put it for before. Nevertheless, to the forty recently polite years, the protagonist of "Edward Scissorhands" and "Mr. Juan of Framework" continues occupying a place of preference among the Hollywood stars, as it shows its role protagónico in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Study of the Black Pearl", the superproducción of hundred forty million dollars in which interprets to a nice one bucanero called Jack Sparrow. Why it was important for you to create this personage? Because that is my way to be. Do a point arrives in which is stronger than I, I cannot remain me quiet expecting that they tell me how has to light up and to be moved the personage. I have it to invent I. Herself that there was people that did not be very happy with my characterization, that thought that was very exaggerated, but I felt that had to be thus, and I could not control me. Thus went as arose.. The executives of the study said you that they had problems with that characterization? Clear that's true, and we were negotiating this theme during a good time. I had two teeth of gold more than the ones that I have in the movie, and there were various executives that wanted that removed them me all. Even they wanted that the beard removed me and the hanging that carries this personage in its beard. I said them that respected them a great deal, that I could accept some suggestions, and that until could come to remove me two teeth of gold, but if I removed something more was going to feel that was compromising the integrity of the personage, and that did not be willing to do it. I said them that they had to trust in my. That they had to leave me to do my work because for something they had hired me, and that if they did not be willing to do it, that the best that could cause I was to replace me.. Why did you decide this man had to walk thus? By a pair of reasons. On the one hand, I thought that this man should have passed a lot time in the ocean, fighting against the adversity. It is a man that has passed himself too many hours under the rays of the sun, for which probably it has been cooked a little bit one the brain. Sure it is felt a great deal more comfortable on board of a ship, because is more usual al rhythm of the ocean that to the firm land. Besides it is a person that knows to use that way to be moved to try to hypnotize her enemies. Therefore it moves all the time, forward and backwards, as a cobra when is trying to hypnotize her victim. Those were my reasons. This man hates to be in firm land. You have managed to maintain certain distance of the industry of the movies, ¿is this the ideal form to carry a career? Yes. I managed to do that once I could finish with the series of television, which a great blessing went to a certain extent. To work in the television was a good education, to have to be set against the chamber five days for week, from seven to nine months during the year. But al same time felt me like part of a line of assembly in a factory of trash. Creatively me did not it satisfy in it more minimum. Is more, was enough frustrante. It felt that was complying a severe sentence in prison. I is sounded that this a little extremist, but felt me condemned. Once I managed to free me of the series and I began to do movies, I promised myself to my same one that beyond which the consequence went, was going to do only the movies that wanted to do. Today I feel very fortunate if there is been able to carry out, if there is been able to work in those movies and if there is interpreted those personages. Therefore feel very proud of everything that I have done in the movies. As for my work as actor, I cannot think, that has it to judge the audience.. Your daughter understands with what earns the life? Not totally. Has not realized that his father is actor. In the facts, she believes that daddy is a pirate. The other day in a restaurant a lady asked him they did what his dads and Lily Rose said: "my mom is singer". And when the woman asked him that he was what did his dad, she it responded: "my daddy is pirate".
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