Post by L'inconnu on Oct 4, 2005 20:36:10 GMT -5
If you don’t love this guy, something is wrong with you -By Fred Topel
You can’t interview Johnny Depp these days without seeing Captain Jack Sparrow. After the first Pirates of the Caribbean, he left his gold teeth in for months. Now that he’s doing a sequel, he’s back with the teeth, the goatee, the rags wrapped around his wrists, and beaded necklaces dangling from his neck. But only Johnny Depp could pull off the horn-rimmed glasses he wore with all the pirate getup. He looked like Bizarro Jack from some parallel universe where Captain Jack reads to senior citizens on the weekend.
In his new movie, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, you don’t get to see Johnny Depp at all; it’s just his voice in an animated figure. He plays a nervous groom who accidentally drops his ring onto a rotted skeleton’s finger, so she comes back from the dead to be his wife.
The Wave: Do your kids think it’s cooler that you’re a cartoon or a pirate?
Johnny Depp: I don’t know. I’ll ask them. My daughter’s six and my boy is three. My daughter, she’s quite calm and ladylike and princess-y, so she can sit there and watch a movie and not get real antsy. Normally, my boy will watch for about three-and-a-half seconds, then sprint as fast as he can across the room to go and break something. With this film, we watched Corpse Bride together. My boy sat on my lap and watched the entire film, didn’t move, just riveted. Loved it. Which says a lot. It’s pretty full, this movie.
TW: How do you bring a Johnny Depp-ness to an animated character?
JD: I think with any character, it all starts from some place of truth within you and then I don’t know. It’s weird. When I read a script, I get these sort-of images and ideas come to me. And then sometimes the images of people come to me, like with Sleepy Hollow I kept seeing a Roddy McDowall/Angela Lansbury kind of thing. So that became the inspiration. [For] Captain Jack, Keith [Richards] became the inspiration because I started thinking of pirates as rock stars of the time, the idea that their legend arrived months, maybe years before they did. So you just start taking little tidbits of things and storing them up to use later. [more...]
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You can’t interview Johnny Depp these days without seeing Captain Jack Sparrow. After the first Pirates of the Caribbean, he left his gold teeth in for months. Now that he’s doing a sequel, he’s back with the teeth, the goatee, the rags wrapped around his wrists, and beaded necklaces dangling from his neck. But only Johnny Depp could pull off the horn-rimmed glasses he wore with all the pirate getup. He looked like Bizarro Jack from some parallel universe where Captain Jack reads to senior citizens on the weekend.
In his new movie, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, you don’t get to see Johnny Depp at all; it’s just his voice in an animated figure. He plays a nervous groom who accidentally drops his ring onto a rotted skeleton’s finger, so she comes back from the dead to be his wife.
The Wave: Do your kids think it’s cooler that you’re a cartoon or a pirate?
Johnny Depp: I don’t know. I’ll ask them. My daughter’s six and my boy is three. My daughter, she’s quite calm and ladylike and princess-y, so she can sit there and watch a movie and not get real antsy. Normally, my boy will watch for about three-and-a-half seconds, then sprint as fast as he can across the room to go and break something. With this film, we watched Corpse Bride together. My boy sat on my lap and watched the entire film, didn’t move, just riveted. Loved it. Which says a lot. It’s pretty full, this movie.
TW: How do you bring a Johnny Depp-ness to an animated character?
JD: I think with any character, it all starts from some place of truth within you and then I don’t know. It’s weird. When I read a script, I get these sort-of images and ideas come to me. And then sometimes the images of people come to me, like with Sleepy Hollow I kept seeing a Roddy McDowall/Angela Lansbury kind of thing. So that became the inspiration. [For] Captain Jack, Keith [Richards] became the inspiration because I started thinking of pirates as rock stars of the time, the idea that their legend arrived months, maybe years before they did. So you just start taking little tidbits of things and storing them up to use later. [more...]
www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=25479