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I took a Johnny Depp quiz once, to figure out what charater I was, who I was most like or something.

I don't fantasize about him, per say, but I can accept it when girls do. He's not a loser :up:


I saw "secret window", and I thought it was great, how he'd go from being a very timid writer, and then confronting the bad guy, and then unleashing his powerful , booming voice. A complete 180, heh, it made me laugh....


"and I'll show you the magazine WITH MY NAME ON THE CONTENTS PAGE!!"

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He has a new movie coming out in December, I saw the trailer on one of those entertainment shows :drool: John Malkovich is in it too, that is far too much sexiness in one movie..

'The Libertine' follows the adventures of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. He has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry, and he writes a scurrilous play which lampoons the monarch who commissioned it, Charles II, leading to the Earl's banishment and eventual downfall.


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For Honor said:
I admit, I respect Johnny Depp. He has good values, from what I know about him.
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I think he is on the right side of the political spectrum.
I do wonder about two things when it comes to Johnny.
1. Why did he decide to live in France permantley?
2. How long did him and Kate Moss stay together.

Does anyone know?
 
NY Daily News

Raking over the ratings

Harvey and Bob Weinstein are trying to tame "The Libertine," the naughty Miramax movie in which Johnny Depp plays 17th-century rake the Earl of Rochester. But not too much.

The MPAA was so scandalized by the "graphic sexuality and nudity" in the flick that its ratings board spanked it with an NC-17. That meant that many newspapers wouldn't accept ads for it.

After sitting on the shelf for much of a year, it has now been sanitized to the point where it's earned an R. But, with the movie set to open Friday, the Weinsteins have come up with a poster that shows Depp being pleasured by actress Samantha Morton. Theater owners certainly won't be hanging it next to the display for "Chicken Little."
 
elevation2u said:
dont get your hopes up,
if it's like the majority of movies

the nudity & graphic sexuality= naked women

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Women are beautiful :shrug:
Though I can see, considering the nature of this thread, why one might be dissapointed


~Captain Obvious
 
Johnny Depp May Star In Michael Hutchence Film

04/26/2006 9:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Ben Gilbert - LAUNCH U.K. & Ireland

Johnny Depp is being lined up to play Michael Hutchence in a movie biopic about the INXS star, it has been claimed.

Depp is among the names apparently being considered for the lead role in the film, which is being put together by Hutchence's brother, Rhett.

Although plans to make the movie are understood to have been met with some opposition from the family of the star, who committed suicide in 1997, Rhett Hutchence is said to be heavily involved.

He is working alongside British filmmaker and former INXS promo video director Nick Egan on the project.

According to reports in the U.K. press today, Siena Miller, Eric Bana, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Griffiths are being considered for the roles of Paula Yates and Bob Geldof.
 
I think he'd be great in that role. He's always been able to do a wide spectrum of roles which is why he's one of the best actors around. :yes:
 
I can see him playing Michael. I agree with MsGiggles that he is one of the best actors around because of his ability to play such different roles. I hope he goes for this one, it would be very interesting to see his take on playing Michael Hutchence.

I heard that Angelina Jolie is rumoured to be starring opposite him in Wuthering Heights. Johnny with an english accent,:drool:.

Who am I kidding, for me it's Johnny with anything and everything. Along with U2 he is my other sickness (as my husband likes to call it). :lol: He knows that I have been "sick" with Mr. Depp for 19 years and with U2 for 22 years, there is no cure for me. :D


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Can you blame me for having JD sickness? Look at that tan line. :drool:
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It's funny but for ages, i've never really fancied Johnny Depp, but i kind of have a little bit of a thing for him after watching Pirates, which someone posted further back (Can't recall who) as being strange, you know to get into him when he's being camp n' all! :ohmy:

However, i have always thought he seemed a really nice, decent guy as well as being a talented and fabulous actor :applaud:

I reckon he'll be great at playing Michael Hutchence :up: He has the right look for the role i reckon :wink:
 
he's on the cover of the new Newsweek

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A Pirate's Life
He wasn't looking for superstardom, so superstardom came looking for him. Johnny Depp on family, 'Pirates of the Caribbean 2'—and how he got a chest of gold without selling his soul.
By Sean Smith
Newsweek

June 26, 2006 issue - Fatherhood has a way of changing people, even iconoclasts. "When I became a dad for the first time, it was like a veil being lifted," Johnny Depp says, as he leans forward, rolling loose tobacco into dark brown paper and using his knee as a table. "I've always loved the process of acting, but I didn't find the occupational hazards particularly rewarding." Occupational hazards like being stalked by paparazzi, mauled by strangers, packaged to sell bubble gum and other side effects of fame. "I can't use the word 'fame' with myself, but yeah," he says. "I just ... there was a long period of confusion and dissatisfaction, because I didn't understand any of it. There was no purpose to it." He leans back, lights the cigarette, exhales. "I was never horribly self-obsessed or wrapped up in my own weirdness, but when my daughter was born, suddenly there was clarity. I wasn't angry anymore. It was the first purely selfless moment that I had ever experienced. And it was liberating. In that moment, it's like you become something else. The real you is revealed."

The Real Johnny Depp. How long have we searched for him? No one in Hollywood, it's fair to say, has worked harder at not being a movie star than Depp has, and yet he has evolved into one of the most adored actors of his generation not in spite of that persistence but because of it. "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" may have grossed $653 million worldwide, made Depp a $20 million man and earned him an Oscar nomination, but he still seems an unlikely addition to the A-list. Top-tier stars, even those who are great actors, stay on top by being true to their personas. We pay $10 to see Will Smith or Julia Roberts precisely because they don't surprise us. It's not that they're playing themselves. It's just that the force of their personalities swamps everything else. They're more than actors. They're brands. Depp, 43, is almost pathologically unpredictable. He can be bizarre, hilarious, unsettling—even annoying. But he is never the same. He's the anti-Tom Cruise. "Nothing against Tom, but Johnny may be a bigger star now," says director John Waters, who cast Depp in 1990's "Cry-Baby." "Nobody is sick of Johnny Depp."

"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," which opens on July 7, will likely be the highest-grossing movie of the summer. And judging from NEWSWEEK's first look in the editing room, it also promises to be a welcome blast of sunshine in a season when Cruise has crashed and burned, and "The Da Vinci Code" has proved to be a joyless blockbuster. In this second leg of the "Pirates" trilogy—the third installment will be released next summer—lovebirds Will (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) are arrested on their wedding day for aiding the escape of Depp's louche Narcissus, Capt. Jack Sparrow. To win freedom for his bride and himself, Will must find Captain Jack, get him to hand over his mysterious compass and give it to the wormy Lord Beckett, who plans to use it to rid the world of pirates forever. Jack, meanwhile, has more immediate problems. He owes his soul to undersea Capt. Davey Jones, is in danger of being destroyed by a giant sea creature called a kraken and has landed on an island of cannibals who have made him their god. Which would be great if the natives didn't make a habit of eating their gods.

Returning director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and team have cranked up the action this time around. One huge set piece includes an elaborate three-way sword fight on a massive water wheel that has snapped off its frame and is rolling at top speed through the jungle. ("It's those moments when you realize how absurd your job is," Depp says. "It's great fun, but it was a bastard to shoot.") Luckily, they've also given Depp plenty of playtime, too. Even more than in the first film, Depp's exaggerated expressions and unexpected line deliveries turn "cute" moments into hilarious ones. At one point, Elizabeth tells Jack, "You're a good man." Depp replies, sloppily, under his breath, "All evidence to the contrary."

Sitting in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Depp flashes a bit of Captain Jack every time he opens his mouth. Those gold pirate teeth are bonded onto his own. With the shoot for the third "Pirates" resuming in August, Depp figured it was just easier to keep them. "They don't come off until the ride stops," he says, and smiles. "It's a horrible process. I didn't want to go through yanking them off and putting them back on. And it leaves some residue of the character behind." Time slows down when you're with Johnny Depp. He seems like a man who has never rushed to, or from, anywhere in his life. He is chronically late for interviews—sometimes four or five hours, sometimes days—but this time around just a gentlemanly 50 minutes. And once he's with you, he never seems in a hurry to leave. His voice is a soft, low mumble. His body is in almost constant motion—rolling those cigarettes, rubbing an elbow, reaching for a glass—but the rhythm is tranquil and fluid, like a cat licking its paw. He's a calm, almost hypnotic presence. "He's always been true to who he is," says director Tim Burton, who has made five films with Depp, including last year's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." "He's never been ruled by money, or by what people think he should or shouldn't do. Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are."

Depp arrived in Hollywood in the early '80s. Despite a physical beauty that had studio executives slobbering to make him into a Romantic Leading Man and hordes of teenage girls (and a few boys) dreaming of touching his hair just once, Depp escaped from the Hollywood star machine around 1990, and managed to elude capture for almost two decades. He hid out in strange, sometimes beautiful films, playing unforgettable characters—Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Hunter S. Thompson, Gilbert Grape—in movies that rarely made a dent at the box office. Of the 20 films Depp starred in before 2003, only one, Burton's "Sleepy Hollow," squeaked past the $100 million mark. Depp got a reputation for being outré and unbankable. "Oh, yeah," he says, then rolls off the list of his crimes: " 'That guy can't open a film. He does all those weird art movies. He works with directors whose names we can't pronounce'." He smiles. "But there are worse things they could say."

When news hit years ago that Depp was going to make the first "Pirates," the buzz around town was that he must be broke, and that after years of taking the artistic high road, he had finally sold out. Depp says he never worried about that. "Never, not once, and I don't know why, because one would think that I would have," he says. "I suppose it's because I feel like I have a voice. The idea of commercial success never bothered me necessarily. What bothered me was striving for that, and lying to get that. If I was going to do something, it had to be on my terms—not because I'm some hideous control freak—but because I don't want to live a lie. You really don't want to look back on your life and go, 'I was a complete fraud'."

That battle to remain authentic has been long and bloody, and it made Depp an angry young man for most of his 20s. Born in Kentucky, the youngest of four kids, and raised in Florida by parents who fought and finally divorced when he was 15, Depp's dream was to play guitar in a band. By 16 he had dropped out of school and was doing just that, his group opening for acts like Iggy Pop. "It was wonderful," he says. "I couldn't have been happier." But after the band arrived in Los Angeles, Depp found himself broke. A musician he was briefly married to at the time introduced Depp to Nicolas Cage, who suggested that he give acting a try. On little more than a whim, he did, and ended up with a supporting role in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and a small part in "Platoon." Still struggling financially, he signed up for "21 Jump Street," a slick TV series about young cops going undercover in high schools. It made Depp a teen idol, and made him miserable just as fast. "Everything flips," he says. "Suddenly, you go into restaurants and people are pointing at you and whispering. You feel spooked by it because that freedom of anonymity is gone. You never get used to that. You'd leave the hotel to go to dinner and there'd be tons of cameras and flashbulbs. " 'Smile, Johnny! Smile!' " He looks annoyed by it, even now. "I thought, 'Jesus, I just want to go home.' But there was no home."

Depp was locked into a multiyear contract with the Fox network. "They turned me into this product, and I didn't have a say in it," he says. "You have no voice, you know? I felt like I was a captive." So he lashed out, becoming a disruptive force on the "Jump Street" set in the hope that the network would fire him. "I was the only one who confronted him on what an a--hole he was being," says costar Holly Robinson Peete. "I totally understood his position, but I was over the moon to be a part of this show, and it's hard to come to work every day with someone who is p---ing all over it. So I went into his dressing room and told him how I felt, and right after that he trashed his Winnebago." Peete doesn't have any hard feelings toward Depp, and chalks it up to youth and inexperience. "He's got a really great heart, but he was frustrated," she says. "He just hated the idea of being on a lunch box or some teenage girl's wall."

Finally freed from "Jump Street," Depp played a succession of iconic loners and dreamers for visionary, unconventional directors, such as Waters, Burton, Jim Jarmusch and Terry Gilliam. But the anger, which Depp calls his "hillbilly rage," never quite dissipated. He was famously arrested for trashing a New York City hotel room in 1994, and while Depp says the incident was blown out of proportion—"I wasn't the Wild Man of Borneo"—he still believed that his fame and success lacked a point, meaning. "I had these sort of self-destructive periods," he says. "We all go through times where we poison ourselves a bit. Looking back on it now, it was simply a waste of time, all that self-medicating and boozing."

Depp was rescued, in part, by Marlon Brando. The two worked together on 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco," and hit it off at the first rehearsal. "Within minutes, Johnny was in Marlon's lap with, I think, a bottle of gin," says director Jeremy Leven. "And I think he stayed there the whole time." It's easy to imagine the bond between the two men, both actors with unconventional visions, talent to burn and a disdain for art compromised by commerce. "Marlon was a pioneer," Depp says, quietly. "So I wouldn't even put myself in the same thought bubble with him, but he understood a lot of things about me, and was incredibly generous and helpful and caring. Very rarely did we talk about movies or acting, so it wasn't that. He saw me going through stuff that he had been through—my weird hillbilly rage—so yeah, the connection was strong and deep."

But it wasn't until Depp met and fell in love with French actress-singer Vanessa Paradis that everything seemed to fall into place for the actor. After a series of highly public, long-term romances—Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder, Kate Moss—his relationship with Paradis seemed to anchor him. The couple's daughter, Lily-Rose, was born in 1999; their son, Jack, in 2002. Being a father released him from the pressure of finding meaning and identity exclusively in his work. "I think it softened him on one level, and then invigorated him on an artistic one," says Burton. "It's an interesting juxtaposition." Depp himself puts it more directly: "Now I know where home is."

It was Depp's desire to make a movie for his kids that led him to "Pirates." In a visit to the Disney lot about five years ago, he mentioned to studio chairman Dick Cook that he'd been watching a lot of Disney movies with his daughter, loved them and was hoping to voice a character in a Pixar movie. Cook mentioned that the studio was developing a movie based on the theme-park ride "Pirates of the Caribbean." "And he got very excited," Cook recalls. "He said, 'Like a real pirate movie? With swords?' And I said, 'Yeah—with swords.' And he said, 'I'm in'."

As is now well known to "Pirates" fans, studio executives were nonplused when they began to see the footage of Depp in character. Whereas Capt. Jack Sparrow was initially conceived as a young Burt Lancaster, Depp had re-imagined him as a debauched, vain, slightly fey rock star, inspired by Rolling Stones icon Keith Richards and cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew. "The studio was, like, 'Is he gay? Is he drunk? We don't know what he's doing!'" says producer Bruckheimer. "It took a little while to calm everybody down." For his part, Verbinski, the director, loved it. "You know, there's a lot of conspiring that goes on between actors and directors that I think is very healthy," he says. "You should be a little concerned as a director if you're not making the studio nervous."

Depp's off-kilter performance, of course, was the very thing that catapulted "Pirates" into a cultural phenomenon. "First of all, Johnny is a pirate in real life," says John Waters. "It's the closest part he's ever played to his real self, but the fact that he played it kind of nelly was a big risk." Pause. "If only real gay pirates were that much fun." After decades of being daring and unexpected in daring and unexpected little films, Depp was now staying true to himself in a big summer blockbuster. He didn't have to be an outsider on the outside. He could be an outsider on the inside. "You feel like you have infiltrated the enemy camp, like you got in there somehow and chiseled your name in the castle wall," he says. The huge success of the film "made perfect sense to me on the one hand, and at the same time, it made no sense at all, which I kind of enjoyed." He takes another drag, exhales. "Yeah, it just felt right. Even now, with the dolls and the cereal boxes and snacks and fruit juices, it all just feels fun to me, in a Warholian way. It's absurd. It doesn't get more absurd." Depp's not ready to let go of Captain Jack just yet. "He's a blast to play," he says. "I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him." He laughs. "I'll keep the costume and just prance around the house, entertain the kids." Or the rest of the world. "Maybe 'Pirates 4, 5 and 6'," he says. "If they had a good script, why not? I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done."

These days, Depp and his family divide their time between homes in Los Angeles and France, when they're not on some movie set or other. He says the media perception of him as an expat and wanna-be Frenchman has been overstated. "But, yeah, I love it there," he says. "I've always loved it there. The phones don't ring as much. Movies are never brought up in conversation. I'll take the kids and we'll go out to the trampoline and the swing set, and we'll stop by the garden and see how our tomatoes are doing. You know, old-fart stuff. Good stuff." At last, Depp has learned to quit fighting fate/fame/whatever. "I think everything happened the way it was meant to happen, but I don't know why," he says. "I remember every bump in the road, and I still don't know how I got here. But who am I to ask why? The fact is, this is where I am. So I enjoy it, salute it and keep moving forward." He smiles, a flash of gold. "None of it makes any sense to me, but then, why should it?"
 
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