Johnny Depp covers the new issue of Vanity Fair's January 2011 magazine. I'm just thrilled to see Johnny on the cover of Vanity Fair! Or any cover for that matter. One of thee most brilliant and powerful actors of my generation is spilling lots which is sometimes quite unusual for the normally reclusive man.
In this issue, he talks about having to bring down Captain Jack Sparrow's eccentric ways. He says, "All my characters are gay," leaving the head of Disney and the rest of his team "nervous."
I love it kiddas! He continues...
On the media attention on his co-star Angelina Jolie... “Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and her husband, Brad…all their kids. There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”
Comparing Angelina to a legend... “I’ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she’s hilarious. Angie’s got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach.”
On the appeal of his character in The Tourist...“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.”
On Disney executives not liking his interpretation of Captain Sparrow..."They couldn't stand him. They just couldn't stand him. I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, 'He's ruining the movie.'
"Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What's wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?... And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite... 'But didn't you know that all my characters are gay?' Which really made her nervous."
On his many eccentric roles over his career..."They're all still there, which on some level can't be the healthiest thing in the world.... I always picture it as this chest of drawers in your body--Ed Wood is in one, the Hatter is in another, Scissorhands is in another.... They're still very close to the surface."
On the music career he almost had..."Going into acting was an odd deviation from a particular road that I was on in my late teens, early 20s, because I had no desire, no interest, really, in it at all. I was a musician and I was a guitarist, and that's what I wanted to do."
What he’d still like to accomplish...‘[Marlon Brando said,] ‘Why don’t you just take a year and go and study Shakespeare, or go and study Hamlet. Go and work on Hamlet and play that part. Play that part before you’re too old…. So what he was trying to tell me was: play that ****ing part, man. Play that part before you’re too long in the tooth. Play it.’ And I would like to. I’d really, really like to.’
Check out a hilarious interview with Johnny along Tim Burton over this past summer on the always funny Jonathan Ross show.
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Johnny Depp 2010-02-26_BBC_ONE_Jonathan_Ross Part 2.
Johnny Depp 2010-02-26_BBC_ONE_Jonathan_Ross Part 3.
Johnny Depp 2010-02-26_BBC_ONE_Jonathan_Ross Part 4.
Johnny Depp 2010-02-26_BBC_ONE_Jonathan_Ross Part 5.
Johnny Depp 2010-02-26_BBC_ONE_Jonathan_Ross Part 6.
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