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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.

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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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