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Johnny Depp always has been one of our favorite and best actors but even he remembers his bad reputation. While we doing our interview a tray of glasses was dropped in another room with a loud crash. Johnny laughed and said “You saw me here. I couldn’t have done it! I’m going to get blamed for that” – by Daniel Robert Epstein for SuicideGirls.com.

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Even just using his voice in the stop-motion animated Corpse Bride, the power of Depp comes through.

Corpse Bride is set in a 19th-century European village and follows the story of Victor [Johnny Depp], a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride [Helena Bonham Carter]. While his real bride, Victoria [Emily Watson], waits bereft in the land of the living.

Daniel Robert Epstein: How did you get into the character of a puppet?

Johnny Depp: I had the great luxury that when I arrived to do the recording Victor was standing there and so I got to meet the puppets. They were beautiful and really inspiring.

DRE: Did you think of anything specific when creating Victor’s voice?

JD: No, not particularly. I was just trying to save my own ass for being ill prepared. I didn’t realize that we were going to be doing the recording while I was shooting Wonka.

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If Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are the ringleaders of Hollywood’s “frat pack,” then Johnny Depp and Tim Burton head up another of Tinseltown U’s cliques: the artsy, quiet intellectual types that can be seen digging through the racks at the local secondhand shop while sipping javas – BY JULIE WOHLBERG on Boise Weekly.com

Where Vaughn and Wilson’s team cornered the market on blockbuster, slapstick comedies, Depp and Burton have mastered the modern cult film–starting with 1991’s Edward Scissorhands and leaving their marks on the last 15 years of cinema with films like Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now, they have unveiled Corpse Bride, an homage to Burton’s 1993 film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

“It was very exciting,” commented Depp of his experience in voice-over. “It’s all very new to me, you know? It’s an interesting and fascinating process. There’s something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they’re going to mesh these voices together, but you’re doing a scene with people you’ve never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great.”

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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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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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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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Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka WITH his talent and looks, he would be forgiven for being loud and obnoxious. – By Peter Mitchell – September 01, 2005.

Women love him and men have a right to be jealous of him. But on a steamy afternoon at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas, Johnny Depp is as gentle and sheepish as a sober nerd at a school formal. Deeply tanned from six months in the sun, Depp has taken a short break from shooting the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels near the resort to chat about Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. He speaks in whispers, is polite and intelligent and sweet.

It was not always the way, he says. As a kid his mother had a special name for him.

“She used the term hellion,” laughs Depp. “I wasn’t obnoxious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.”

Depp is a Hollywood chameleon, switching from dirty Jack Sparrow to tidy playwright James Barrie in Finding Neverland, Constable Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow to Edward Scissorhands.

Now he is Willy Wonka, the weird chocolate mogul in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, the remake of the Roald Dahl classic.

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This is an article excerpt. To view the article in full, please visit the entertainment.news.com.au website.

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By Helen Barlow – Kids love him, teens think he’s cool, girls of all ages drool over his looks and charm, while parents and grannies find him endearing. Having cleaned up his act to become a doting parent, he has won a new respectability, and now with his box office clout he can make whatever movie he pleases.

But still the question remains: underneath all the disguises just who is the real Johnny Depp? In movies he has worked with the most creative and eccentric of directors and actors. His debut was in Cry-Baby with John Waters and then came Edward Scissorhands. His excursion into the mainstream as a regular accountant chasing the clock in Nick of Time, directed by the highly respected John Badham, flopped at the box office, and he looked most sexy when he reluctantly played a latter-day Rudolph Valentino in Don Juan DeMarco, which he only did to work with Marlon Brando.

Brando, another adventurer who also became his friend, came out of retirement to feature in the only film Depp would ever direct, The Brave, which played only in a couple of tiny Parisian cinemas.

“I don’t think you can spend more than two minutes with Marlon Brando without walking away with an unforgettable experience and with an education,” he says. The Brave was hardly a gripping experience, though its native American theme showed that Depp was keen to explore his part-Cherokee roots.

He had appeared already in the Native American-themed Dead Man for his friend Jim Jarmusch,

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He is so talented and good-looking, he would be forgiven for being loud and obnoxious.

Women love him and men have a right to be jealous.

Johnny Depp could have a supermodel on his arm any day of the week, but here he is on a recent sweaty afternoon at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas as gentle and sheepish as a sober nerd at a school formal.

Depp, deeply suntanned from six months in the tropical sun, has taken a short break from shooting the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels nearby the resort to stop by and chat about his latest film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

He speaks in whispers, is polite and intelligent and is so sweet you want to give him a hug, or maybe a clip across the ear and tell him not to be so well-behaved.

It was not always the way, he says.

As a kid his mother had a special name for him.

“She used the term ‘hellion’,” Depp, on this day looking part scallywag pirate and part Parisian artist, laughs, albeit quietly, as he explains.

“I wasn’t obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.”

Depp looks part pirate because he has just walked off the Pirates of the Caribbean set.

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August 2, 2005 – The Hollywood Reporter – Stephen Galloway – He was one of the more curious and eccentric characters in a country replete with them. A sybarite whose lavish lifestyle left him dead from syphilis in 1680 at age 33, a profligate whose excesses would draw the wrath of no less a moralist than Samuel Johnson a century later. He was John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester who’s ability to offend has continued unabated for four centuries…

In 1992, Jeffreys began to turn Rochester’s life into “The Libertine,” a play that would make its debut at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre two years later. Another two years would follow before the work was optioned by Mr. Mudd, the production company set up by actor John Malkovich and his business partners, Russell Smith and Lianne Halfon (named after Malkovich’s driver on 1984’s “The Killing Fields”).

In all, it has taken a decade for Malkovich, Smith and Halfon to bring “Libertine” to the screen, with the film set for a September release through Miramax. During the 10 years since Malkovich and Smith first became involved (Malkovich played Rochester onstage in Chicago), the project found financing and lost it, landed Johnny Depp and Nicole Kidman, only to lose them, landed Depp again and drew within weeks of principal photography, only to have the U.K. unexpectedly change its tax laws, essentially obliterating a large portion of the movie’s financing.

Indeed, “Libertine” had the kind of early luck that producers dream about.

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JOHNNY Depp is smiling. It’s a curious kind of half-smile that makes his face look even more boyish than usual. Depp was 42 a couple of weeks ago but still looks remarkably youthful – by Andy Dougan. Evening Times Online.

The immaculately trimmed beard and the dark-rimmed spectacles do nothing to make him look any older. He has just mentioned how therapeutic it is “to make an ass of yourself and be paid for it” and it is that childlike emotional availability that makes Depp the best in the business.

Ironically, despite having been recognised as the best actor of his generation for some time, Depp has only recently become a major box office star.

The runaway success of the first Pirates Of The Caribbean film made him a bankable property – the two sequels he is currently filming back to back won’t hurt either – and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory has also been a runaway hit.

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