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Johnny Depp Interview – Getting Into Character with Tim Burton on Corpse Bride – From Fred Topel for About.com.

Why Johnny Depp Made Corpse Bride: 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.

Johnny Depp on Rushing Into Character in Corpse Bride: 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 didn’t know what the guy was going to sound like or anything. Good fun though.

Johnny Depp on His Character, Victor, in Corpse Bride: Well, he felt like a guy that I knew. When I read it, he didn’t feel all that dissimilar from other characters that I’ve played for time. It was just the base emotional feeling.

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On Friday, September 16, 2005 Johnny Depp will join Hollywood’s greatest stars by placing his footprints and handprints in cement outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The ceremony will begin at 11:00 a.m.

Two live web cams from Mann Theatre will be covering the event for those who cannot attend.

Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood is the most famous movie theatre in the world. Millions of visitors flock here each year, drawn by its famous forecourt with its hands & footprints of the Hollywood Stars. Johnny’s prints will be joining other stars such as Charles Chaplin, Clark Gable, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, and Tom Hanks.

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Johnny Depp, the chameleon-like actor who has played so many different roles that he may not have a self, says he’s finally found a role he wants to stay in: the buccaneer Captain Jack Sparrow.

Sequels frighten Depp, but he said the chance to reprise his role as the suave Sparrow in the next two editions of Pirates of the Caribbean was too delicious to pass up.

For an actor who has received far more critical praise than box office success, it is not about the money.

“More than it having anything to do with money, or franchise, or hopefully continued success, it actually had … more to do with selfishly being able to meet up with that character again,” Depp said in an interview at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday.

Depp said he’s often felt separation anxiety when he finishes a film, notably after his breakthrough performance in Edward Scissorhands, also directed by Burton.

But he said he developed a deep affinity with Jack Sparrow, a character based on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Depp was nominated for a best actor Oscar for the role.

Two Pirates’ sequels are filming in the Bahamas and are slated for release in 2006 and 2007.

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LOS ANGELES – Who exactly is Johnny Depp? Kids today know the actor for his colorful, Halloween-ready characters such as swaggering pirate Jack Sparrow, eccentric confectioner Willy Wonka and now as the gothic groom with cold feet named Victor. – By Hanh Nguyen – Zap2it.com.

In his latest guise, Depp gives voice to the stop-motion animated puppet hero in Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride.” While filming “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” for Burton, Depp was called upon to create Victor on short notice. After shooting a scene earlier in the day as Wonka, the actor rushed over to the “Corpse Bride” recording studio where he cobbled together a persona based on a 15-minute grilling session with Burton.

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Despite the bad boy image he used to project during his younger years, Johnny Depp comes off as a soft-spoken, shy artist when it comes to doing interviews. That’s not to say that he’s a bad interview. In fact, I would say that our interviews with Johnny Depp contain some of the most insightful and interesting takes on the art of acting. – Ethan Aames for Cinema Confidential.

Q: The last two movies, Pirates and Charlie, had you playing characters that were way over the top. Do you prefer to play things closer to you or have nothing to do with you?

JOHNNY: Any actor with any semblance of sanity or insanity will tell you that our biggest fear is to go anywhere near where you are. It’s O.K. to use certain truths. It’s a great challenge and I’ve touched on it here and there in more charactery parts, like Libertine coming up. I, more than anything, am more interested in exploring one area and saying that it’s territory covered and seeing what happens next. Where do you go next?

There is that voice of Marlon Brando’s that reverbs to me. One time, he said (Johnny in Marlon Brando voice) How many movies do you do a year? Two or three. And he said, You gotta watch yourself. I said, Why? He says,

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 – He shuns stardom, but Johnny Depp is still Hollywood royalty, writes Gayle MacDonald.

Before Johnny Depp entered the ballroom at the Sutton Place hotel this weekend, the room was abuzz with anticipation. Would he be shorter or taller than imagined? Would he be sporting his goatee and one of his frumpy hats? Would his deep-brown, usually unkempt locks, be long, short or pulled back in a pony tail?

Well, damned if any of us, sitting in the seats behind a sea of flash-bulb-frenzied paparazzi, had a clue. Practically frothing at the actor’s arrival, they screamed Depp’s name — “Turn left Johnny! Turn right Johnny!” — virtually ignoring the not-exactly lightweight company Depp was in, namely director Tim Burton (with whom the actor has made five films) and Burton’s feisty partner, Helena Bonham Carter, all here to talk about their new film, the stop-motion romance Corpse Bride.

When the moderator finally managed to get the mob in front to take their seats, Depp looked relieved but kind of stunned. He grimaced at Burton and Carter, and for the first 10 minutes of the press conference could not quite meet the gaze of anyone in the crowd.

There is celebrity elite, and then there is Hollywood royalty. And despite years of trying to shun stardom — and stridently searching for roles that were distinctly non-mainstream — Depp has still somehow landed himself in the surreal realm of the latter category.

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Frenzied photographers formed a human wall around Johnny Depp as the actor arrived for a film festival press conference at the Sutton Place Hotel yesterday, bathing him in an eerie glow of flashing lights. So intent were they on grabbing his image, as probably the most in-demand celebrity amongst the many currently visiting Toronto, it’s likely none of them stopped to ponder which Johnny Depp they were actually getting – by Peter Howell of The Star.com

Would it be the Michael Jackson send-up of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the summer hit that is maintaining its momentum straight into the fall?

Would it be Capt. Jack Sparrow, the Keith Richards caricature Depp played in the summer ’03 smash Pirates of the Caribbean, and whom he is revisiting during the current simultaneous shoots for the Pirates 2 and Pirate 3 sequels?

Would it be his loving imitation of his friend Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the late gonzo journalist whom he portrayed in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and whom he recently eulogized by sending his ashes flying from a cannon?

Or would Depp be like any of the characters he has played for his director friend Tim Burton, which include the title-role misfits of Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, the inquiring Constable Ichabod Crane of Sleepy Hollow or the nerdy groom Victor of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, the stop-motion romance chiller that premiered last night at the Elgin Theatre?

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So Johnny appeared in Toronto today – together with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham-Carter at the Press Conference and later the Red Carpet and After Show Party for the movie The Corpse Bride. I already uploaded many many pics into the galleries/appearances galleries and he looks sooo good with the longer hair…OMG…no he looks amazing, here some examples, click to enlarge:

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A sheik Johnny Depp and a relaxed looking Tim Burton sauntered into the Sutton Place Hotel this morning to discuss the pair’s latest collaborative effort – “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.” – By MARK DANIELL — For JAM! Movies.

The film, which took years to make, uses puppets to tell the story of geeky Victor (voiced by Depp), his bride-to-be, Victoria (Emily Watson) and the gleeful corpse who comes between them (voiced by Bonham Carter).

And though the whole animation thing was new to Depp and Bonham Carter, both couldn’t have loved it more.

“I wish I could play puppets the rest of my life,” Bonham Carter quipped. “You don’t have to worry about hair and make-up. You’re not trapped by your envelope.”

The film, which Burton and Johnson had been working on for several years, went into overdrive while Burton was filming “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” last year with Depp, Bonham Carter and Danny Elfman in England.

“Grilling Tim on the set was how I prepared for the part of Victor,” Depp recalled with a laugh. “I feel lucky that these parts arrived in front of me.”

“But,” he said looking exasperatingly at the director, “I still can’t believe he was able to bounce back and forth between the two.”

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Press Conference – Cable 10 & 63 TORONTO – rogerstelevision.com – This fan favourite provides exclusive, uninterrupted coverage of the major press conferences shown in their entirety.

Viewers are taken front and centre with moviemakers and celebrities as they chat openly about their Festival films and answer questions from the international media.

On Saturday, September 10, 2005:

7:00 PM
Scheduled to attend: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, directors Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, Danny Elfman, music and producer Allison Abbate.

On Sunday, September 11, 2005:

6:00 AM
Scheduled to attend: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, directors Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, Danny Elfman, music and producer Allison Abbate.

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