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JOHNNY DEPP

By IGGY POP
Photography BRUCE WEBER
Interview Magazine
April 2014

Even more than the other superstars of his generation (the Pitts, the Clooneys, the Cruises), Johnny Depp has built a personal mythos as complex and compelling as his career. In a sense, he’s managed to position himself as the beatnik troubadour of American cinema. After his early roles, as the cute boyfriend in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and the cute narc on the late-’80s cop show 21 Jump Street, Depp fought against his matinee-idol image. In his first headlining role, in John Waters’s cult greaser comedy Cry-Baby (1990), the actor sent up his own pinup status, playing a high school toughie with his tongue planted firmly in cheek. And, even as he became grist of young-Hollywood tabloid mill (dating the likes of actress Winona Ryder and model Kate Moss), there seemed to be another Depp hiding beyond the spotlight, an inquisitive artist who sought out his creative heroes, including Marlon Brando, the Beats, his good friend Hunter Thompson, and Thompson’s partner-in-crime, the artist Ralph Steadman (with whom Depp appears in this month’s For No Good Reason, a documentary about Steadman’s life and work).

With his star turn in Tim Burton’s eerie fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990), Depp began putting together the menagerie of oddballs, outcasts, and misfits (Ed Wood [1994], Don Juan DeMarco [1995], Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow [1999],

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Johnny Depp – in my opinion the most beautiful man in the world – always working exactly against this beautiness. The only work he doesn’t succeed in. And even if you don’t think Johnny looks absolutely amazing – you cannot deny that he is the most talented actor of his generation. Nobody can represent that many different characters, nobody is that daring in his choice of movies. I guess there is no role he cannot play. And he is not only a great actor. Do not forget his great work as the writer and director of the movie The Brave. Or his talent as a musician. Playing the guitar or even composing his own character’s score for the soundtrack of the movie Once upon a time in Mexico.

And his most adorable “talent” is his character in real life, his love for his girl Vanessa Paradis, and being a father for his two kids.

But why Johnny Depp?

Johnny Depp gives us fans more back than it is even possible for other actors.

Johnny is one of the most talented and convertible actors ever. He does’t let himself being pegged as something, but attempts completely different roles everytime. And he does not only play the character, he becomes the character, so that nobody else is conceivable for it. Johnny Depp doesn’t shy away from movies for sure a flop nor from roles not even paid for.

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Although Pirates of the Caribbean- On Stranger Tides will not premiere in theaters until May 20th , much of the public have been able to view the film already at the many screenings held in major cities. Veering off the path of past POTC films that were held in strict privacy, this film has been shown all over the US during the past month for fans to view for free.

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Johnny Depp is at once one of the world’s most alluring, yet impenetrable Hollywood leads. Rüdiger Sturm explores the character of this quirkiest of actors and reluctant star.

Highlights from Entertainment Weekly’s Jan. 21 issue (on newsstands nationwide Friday, Jan 14): Johnny Depp talks exclusively about ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ and the possibility of ‘Pirates 5’

New York, N.Y. – Does anyone love the egomaniacal pirate Capt. Jack Sparrow as much as, well, the egomaniacal pirate Capt. Jack Sparrow? Maybe not. But one person who comes close is Johnny Depp, who’s now played that seafaring scallywag in four Pirates of the Caribbean movies, including On Stranger Tides (out May 20). “I’m never tired of the character,” he says. “I don’t look forward to the day when I have to say goodbye to him.”

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‘Alice in Wonderland’: Hollywood’s Mad Hatter

Twenty years ago, a frustrated young TV star and a wild-haired filmmaker met at a hotel off the Sunset Strip, drank coffee, and talked. To an outside observer, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton would have seemed an unlikely pair: one, a reluctant teen idol; the other, a shy, rumpled director with a penchant for the macabre. But from that meeting sprang a creative partnership that has produced some of the most memorable oddball characters in recent movie history: An alienated teenage Frankenstein with scissors for hands. A cross-dressing Z-movie director. A demented candy maker. A murderous barber.

On a warm winter afternoon, Depp, 46, and Burton, 51 — the duo behind Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Sweeney Todd, among others — sit on a balcony at another L.A. hotel, just days away from the March 5 opening of their seventh film together: an eye-popping new 3-D Alice in Wonderland. This PG-rated big-screen take on the Lewis Carroll classic stars Depp as the Mad Hatter alongside newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Between Depp’s whacked-out spin on the Hatter and Burton’s flair for imagery, Alice is poised to capitalize on the growing appetite for 3-D extravaganzas stoked by Avatar,

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Johnny Depp is a very busy man.

Not only is he knee-deep in promotion and post-production for Alice in Wonderland, Depp will once again be joining forces with Tim Burton in the vampire flick Dark Shadows, targeted for a 2011 release with filming beginning in 2010. Burton confirmed to the LA Times that Dark Shadows will be his next project as soon as he wraps up post-production on Wonderland.

Burton described the 1960s vampire soap opera as having “the weirdest vibe to it,” and it most certainly will again with Burton and Depp at the helm. The prolific Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil, has optioned the film, and Depp will be taking the lead role of the vampire Barnabus Collins, which he confessed was a “lifelong dream.”

According to IMDb, Depp’s company has over a dozen films in development right now, including 2011’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, an adaptation of Brian Selznik’s Caldecott-winning novel.

Depp himself is immersed in a variety of acting roles. On the heels of Public Enemies comes Wonderland, The Rum Diary, The Lone Ranger, and Rango (Depp voices the title character). He’s also rumored to be taking part in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, In the Hands of Dante, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, and Sin City 3.

And who can forget the incomparable Jack Sparrow? Depp is reprising his role in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, which is currently in the script-writing stage and which,

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The magic of Hollywood partially comes from the Magic Wand, or makeup brush, held in the hands of Ms. Ve Neill. What the imagination dreams, can be brought to life by this woman who needs no ?bibbidy bobiddy boo? o r ?Abracadabra? to accomplish what some consider impossible. Revered by those such as Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg and whose work is imitated by thousands around the globe, Ve has set a standard in makeup artistry that has deemed her the nickname ?CGI Queen? in the film industry because her work can be matched only by CGI and special effects.

Ve began the voyage of her career while working on the first Star Trek film. She brought the Klignons to life and used that stepping stone to gain notoriety by diving into the challenge of Tim Burton?s groundbreaking film ?Beetlejuice?. While most artists would simply stare in bewilderment at such a character; Ve relished in the opportunity to venture into the unknown. Ms. Neill is a totally self-made woman whom at the tender age of five knew in her heart of hearts that this was what she wanted for her career. ?My next door neighbor was a makeup man. He used to make me up every Halloween, that?s what made me want to do this,? Ve states. And succeed she certainly has! After the huge accomplishment of ?Beetlejuice,? she went on to tackle everything from ?Dick Tracy?s? comic book characters, to joining Burton again in Edward Scissorhands, where she coincidentally and unbeknownst to her emerged on another long relationship with actor,

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With a group of new projects looming in the near future for Johnny, the question is posed to us all. Does Johnny?s choices in roles really matter? Of course those fans and followers of Mr. Depp are well aware that he does not and never will go along with the fandom and main stream choices of today?s Hollywood. Gossip and rumors seem to sprout up everywhere as all the world desires to know, where Johnny is and what is he really working on? As an artist Johnny Depp is a name synonymous with individualism and charisma, but more importantly he is now known as his own man who goes with his own desires and interests. This seems to be the year of Johnny, and will be next year in a matter of fact statement. Whether the fans or critics agree with the choices that Johnny is making, he is blatantly saying to all, ?I?m doing what I like, just like I always have.? He seems to have found a comfortable place to nest with those he is working alongside and the roles that he is portraying. And so does it really matter? The answer to this is an emphatic and resounding NO! For Johnny has used his chameleon to make believers out of the faint hearted long before this and there is nothing that has been put in front of him he cannot do. Never ceasing to surprise and amaze us, he will continue to shock us with his role choices.

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