Johnny Depp looks simply dashing as the latest cover boy for Aspen Peak magazine's Decemeber issue. The iconic actor shares what his most recent film, 'The Rum Diary' signifies to him and why he plans on leaving a mighty good-looking corpse behind with all his meaningful tattoos.
On what making The Rum Diary really meant to him... “Making The Run Diary was a fulfillment of a promise I had made to [author Hunter S. Thompson]. I had found the novel before it was published at Owl Farm. Hunter had it in his basement archive - The War Room - just lying around. I was floored by the elegant prose. I couldn’t believe he wrote it when he was only 22! And together we decided to make a motion picture of Rum. From the start it was collaborative. Now I’ve fulfilled the deal.”
Depp, who just finished making Dark Shadows with Tim Burton in London, is for the time being all about The Rum Diary. His hope was to make a film about Hunter’s early reportorial years that was true in spirit but respectful to the family. Thompson’s widow Anita, a resident of Woody Creek, went to the screening in Los Angeles and fell in love with the film... “Depp really knows how to put together a first-rate team. I can watch it over and over again.”
On what his tattoos mean to him... “I consider tattoos my diary. I received my first tattoo as a teenager. My skin is a record of my life. Recently, right before coming to Austin, I went to Disneyland with Damien (Echols) of the West Memphis Three. He had just gotten out of jail. He wanted to see Disneyland so I took him. Afterwards we went and got tattoos together. That’s my way of documenting things in my life.”
Scoot over to AspenPeak-Magazine.com for thee rest of the article!
The official 'Rum Diary' trailer.
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