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Johnny Depp has said he didn’t set out to be ‘captain weird,’ but his affection for off-kilter, misfit roles seems to fit the Hollywood rebel perfectly – By Sherri Wood – Toronto Sun.

In Toronto at the Film Festival this week to promote his newest role in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, the animated movie that opens today, Depp looked perfectly the oddball part. He channeled a style somewhere between a homeless beatnik thespian and Hunter S. Thompson in a haphazard outfit, complete with ragged, handmade accessories, fedora-like hat, bulky, dark rimmed glasses and gold teeth.

Despite his own eccentricities, Depp said the inspiration for his offbeat characters comes not from a hidden inner weird well — but from outside sources, specifically, other oddball celebs.

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LOS ANGELES Zap2it.com – Downtown Toronto was still in the grip of premieres, parties and photographers midway through the city’s 30th annual film festival. Here’s the latest update of what the stars were up to when not giving interviews – By Hanh Nguyen.

Johnny Depp – Still sporting scraggly hair and gold-capped teeth for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequels, Depp made a quick stop by the Luxury Lounge at the Park Hyatt Hotel to pick up two pairs of sunglasses for his sister. Although his visit was brief, the “Corpse Bride” actor found time to sketch a picture of a bleeding heart that will be auctioned off for Katrina relief.

Others contributing to the celebrity sketches include: “Brothers Grimm” director Terry Gilliam, “X-Men’s” Iceman himself Shawn Ashmore, “Ice Princess” Michelle Trachtenberg and “CSI” wiseguy Eric Szmanda.

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Just a few years ago, Tim Burton had to butt heads with studios to get them to agree to casting Johnny Depp as the lead. Everyone knew that Depp was a great actor. He had countless terrific performances to prove that, from Edward Scissorhands to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape to Donnie Brasco and Ed Wood. Box office draw was the title he had somehow avoided. All of that ended in the most unlikely circumstances, headlining a long-thought-dead genre, the pirate movie, and creating an endlessly entertaining character named Jack Sparrow – by Jeff Otto for IGN.

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Once Marlon Brando told him, ‘We only have so many faces in our pockets.’ It’s career advice Depp has never forgotten – By Gayle MacDonald for the Globe and Mail.

Johnny Depp relishes full-blown transformation.

He got a kick out of inserting gold teeth and kohling his eyes to play the inimitable campy pirate Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. He enjoyed putting his own face-powdered stamp on Willy Wonka with Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And now he’s hitting the screens as a clumsy, insecure and well-meaning puppet named Victor, in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

Depp, in Toronto last weekend to promote his friend Burton’s stop-motion animated film, says these roles have been a nice change from character-driven parts that perhaps are a bit closer to the real Johnny Depp. “Any actor with any semblance of sanity — probably our biggest fear is to go anywhere near who you are. It’s okay to use certain truths,” he continues, but then is interrupted by a tray of falling plates just outside a room at the Four Seasons Hotel.

“You saw I didn’t do anything at all. I’ll be blamed for that.”

Then Depp, who has always had a loyal cult of fans but only recently enjoyed blockbuster, box-office success, says he’s never forgotten the words of a wise man he worked with on 1995’s Don Juan DeMarco. “I can hear Marlon’s [Brando] words reverberating. One time he said to me,

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BBC News – A 12-year-old boy accidentally killed himself as he tried to imitate Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, an inquest has heard.

Scott Buckle, from Swansea, enjoyed watching the video of the Hollywood blockbuster on the night he died last February, his mother said. She said Scott apparently hanged himself as he copied a scene in which Depp’s character escapes a noose. A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the hearing in Swansea.

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Among a series of possible contributory factors was the fact that Scott had suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, reports the Daily Mail.

Despite receiving treatment for the condition, one of its symptoms is an unawareness of danger and an inability to appreciate risk.

Dr John Talbot, a psychiatrist from Morriston Hospital, Swansea, told the inquest that Scott’s background made it likely he would have identified with the anti-hero in the film played by Johnny Depp.

He added: “With attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, one of the facets, apparently, is that people are unaware of dangers around them.

Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family and friends of Scott Buckle in this very difficult time.

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In Tim Burton’s new movie, Corpse Bride, his favorite leading man Johnny Depp returns to voice Victor, the reluctant groom – Stephanie Sanchez.

The following is a Q&A from the Toronto Film Festival with Depp about his role in Corpse Bride, Pirates 2 and 3 and life with kids…

Q: Had you wanted to do an animated film and why this one?

Depp: It was something I wanted to do, kind of always wanted to do especially since having my first child. I’ve been watching nothing but animated films now. So I’ve really developed a respect and love for them. But more than anything, what drew me to this was Tim. We were just commencing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and he said, ?Hey, I’ve got this other thing, Corpse Bride, maybe take a look at it.’ So I read it and loved it, but it somehow didn’t occur to me that we were going to be doing it at the same time. I thought it was going to be like months down the road so I would have some time later to prepare for the character. So you could imagine my surprise when, as I was very, very focused on Wonka, Tim arrives on set and says, ?Hey, you know, maybe tonight we’ll go and record some of Corpse Bride.’ I was like sure, ‘course we can. I have no character. I didn’t know what the guy was going to sound like or anything.

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Conact Music reports that Johnny Depp is NOT opening a club in Las Vegas as was previously reported. They quote Johnny as saying:

“I’m insane but I’m not completely dumb.” JOHNNY DEPP insists reports he’s opening a club in Las Vegas, Nevada, are ridiculous.

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One of the most visionary and creative directors, Tim Burton returns to the world of stop motion animated with his new feature, The Corpse Bride, featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, and Albert Finney – POSTED ON 09/15/05 BY Ethan Aames.

Burton co-directs and produces this animated film about Victor Hugo (Depp), a man who on his wedding day makes a mistake in marrying a dead woman named Emily (Carter). Torn between two vastly different worlds, he finds himself embroiled in a love triangle that will have a profound effect on everyone’s world – living and dead.

Q: How would you say that your relationship with Johnny has evolved over the years?

TIM: Well it hasn’t become sexual yet [laughs]. Ever since I met him for Edward Scissorhands, he’s maintained an artistic integrity that is amazing in a movie industry where people can get seduced by certain things. He’s always kept doing what he does and basically a great character actor in a leading man’s body. He’s always kept that integrity and that’s something for me that I find very amazing in this business.

Q: Is Johnny your muse?

TIM: I love working with him and I like to work with actors who like to change and transform and he?s certainly more like Lon Chaney or Boris Karloff than he is a leading man in terms of creating different characters.

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TORONTO – Philadelphia Daily – Howard Gensler – Here at the Toronto International Film Festival, the paparazzi have been typically rude -although on better behavior than normal; foreign press and junketeers have been typically fawning – doing interviews then asking for autographs; the TV folk have been much better looking than the print journalists; the directors and screenwriters have been earnest, amusing and intelligent; and the stars have been shockingly cooperative and polite.

Johnny Depp, perhaps the biggest star in the world after “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” was spotted signing autographs and joking with a group of children – a far cry from the moody, whack job the tabs often make him out to be.

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