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In the opening frame of The Libertine, Johnny Depp, all delicious cheekbones and tousled hair as the sexual omnivore the Earl of Rochester, begins by challenging his audience. “You will not like me.” But of course you do. – By Chrissy Illey, Evening Standard

We meet in a sterile hotel room in Beverly Hills. Depp is wearing a scraggy T-shirt and jeans, spiky hair and hornrimmed glasses – but still looks absolutely gorgeous.

“I definitely had a phase in my life when Rochester and I would have spent the night together,” says Depp. “He is a character I know in a lot of ways. “I recognised something that I had gone through. I quit drinking spirits because I wouldn’t stop. I would just keep going until a black screen came down where you can’t see anything any more and you don’t know if you’re around.”

Depp quit drinking, thinking it was “wasting time”, and in the same period he stopped doing drugs. “Trying to numb and medicate myself was never about recreation. It was existing without living …
“I would have made a dangerous mistake of trying to live it. Not necessarily going out and shagging everything that had a pulse, but drinking, and I would never have got through it. Ten years later, I have a solid foundation to stand on.”

Then, of course, there was the raging, destructive, on-off relationship with Kate Moss. He regularly trashed hotel rooms (when he wasn’t strewing them with flowers for Moss) before he left the model to settle down with the French singer Vanessa Paradis,

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NewWindPress – When “Pirates of the Caribbean” star, Johnny Depp, decided to leave America and set up home in France, he never dreamed that he would ever see it literally go up in flames. And that having happened, rumours are abuzz that he is planning leave the riot torn country.

“It’s insane, that setting cars on fire is the new strike. I went there (to France) to live because it seemed so simple. Now it’s anything but. I don’t know how they’ll recover from this,” said Depp.

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21/11/2005 – Contact Music – JOHNNY DEPP credits his decision to set up home in France with allowing him to lead a normal life when he isn’t making movies.

“The nearest village has 1,500 people. I can take a ride into the village and go to the little local bar and have a coffee with my girl, and people say, ‘Hello Johnny, how are you?’ said Depp.

“You drive back home and walk in the vegetable garden with your kids and have a nice lunch – you know, real life, real life, not any of the hoopla that surrounds the industry here.”

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11/21/05 – According to Contact Music website Hollywood Actor Johnny Depp used drugs and alchol early in his movie career to him deal with his new found MegaStar status.

The 42-year-old says, “For a number of years I self-medicated because I couldn’t quite figure it out. “I thought a simple life was an impossibility. It flipped me out. “It was a weird period. There were times when it was a wonder I survived.”

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A National Trust conservationist was on hand to offer advice during the filming of Johnny Depp’s raunchy love scenes on the set of his new film – By Graham Spicer.

She wasn’t there to tell Johnny where to put his hat, however, but was instead advising the film crew on conservation issues on location at Montacute House in Somerset, a trust property.

“I was one of only a small number of people on set for the love scenes – an unusual environment to be giving conservation advice!” said Sharon Masters, Acting House Steward at Montacute House.

A 16th century bed in the house’s crimson bedroom was used in some particularly steamy scenes and Sharon had to make sure that the romps caused no damage to the valuable antique.

“Montacute House is a favoured location for many film producers,” said Sharon. “It was a fascinating insight to see a glimpse of the house as it may have looked and been lived in during the period,” she added. “The project involved months of preparation and two weeks of filming over two floors and using ten rooms within the house.”
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Yahoo News – Although he’s generally thought of as something of a swoon-bucket, the nation’s teenage girls have decided screen-smoulderer Johnny Depp is no longer king of the pin-ups.But who’s stolen the Pirates Of The Carribean star’s crown? None other than shaggy barneted O.C. cutie Adam Brody, of course.

A poll of CosmoGirl! readers has seen Johnny Depp ousted from his top spot as their favourite poster bloke. However, rest easy, he’s not completely out of favour, dropping down to just number seven in their top ten.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Having created an indelible rogue’s gallery of lovable freaks and nonconformists, Johnny Depp ventures deep into the realm of the monstrous in the demanding film “The Libertine.” – By Sheri Linden

He delivers a haunting portrait of the 17th-century poet, provocateur and debauchee John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, who achieved literary acclaim only after his lingering death at 33, ravaged by syphilis and alcohol. One of the achievements of director Laurence Dunmore’s insistently gritty first feature is that his protagonist, a repellent creature of rapacious sensual appetites, grows more recognizable the more physically grotesque he becomes. A dark cousin to such screen rapscallions as Raoul Duke, Jack Sparrow and, yes, Willy Wonka, Depp’s dissolute earl possesses a staggering allure, sorrow and intelligence beneath the blood-chilling sneer.

“You will not like me,” Rochester promises from the shadows in his to-the-camera prologue. Stephen Jeffreys’ screenplay, based on his play, doesn’t explain or excuse the behavior of a man devoted to pleasure and yet numb to it. A favorite in the king’s court, though no worshipper of the throne, Rochester accepts a commission to write a major work of literature for Charles II (John Malkovich, who shepherded the project over its nine-year development after playing the title role in the U.S. premiere of the play). Rather than get to work, Rochester pursues his commitment to drink and sex, between escapades trading pornographic ripostes with writers George Etherege (Tom Hollander) and Charles Sackville (Johnny Vegas).

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From bad boy to contented dad, this latterday James Dean has reformed and settled down. But his choice of movie roles, now including a wild 17th century courtier, is as adventurous as ever

David Smith
Sunday November 13, 2005
The Observer

Death or nappies: this was the choice facing Johnny Depp. He could emulate his idol, James Dean, and smash himself up in a car, or ape his contemporary, River Phoenix, dead from a drug overdose outside Depp’s nightclub. Yet either fate would have been too cliched for someone unwilling to run with the pack. More daring, surely, to be a rebel with a cause: settle down, potter about the garden, change the kids’ nappies. [more…]

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At their final Hollywood Bowl show on Tuesday, the Rolling Stones treated a star-studded audience with two songs the band has never performed live before – one new and one very old. – By Steve Hochman for the Times.

Jagger wryly noted the celebrity presence which included Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis in several onstage comments during the frisky performance.

“Got a lot of famous people here tonight,” he said at one point. “Want to thank them all for coming. Too numerous to mention, but they’ll all be on stage for the ‘Let It Be’ finale.”

He also commented that the heavy showbiz representation in the audience added a certain pressure to shows here. “I always feel like we’re auditioning,” he said of playing in Los Angeles. “But we always get called back.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The public is invited to vote for their choice of nominees for the 32nd Annual People’s Choice Awards. Nominees for Female movie star are Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, and Nicole Kidman. Johnny Depp, Samuel L. Jackson and Nicolas Cage are up for Male movie star. To view a list of nominees please visit our Johnny Depp forums. To cast your vote please click here.

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