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29 July 2005 – Mirror.co.uk. – by Jan Janssen in Nassau – It’s hard to believe that the tanned, fit and healthy-looking star sitting calmly in the Bahamas sun is the same actor who came to recognition as a pale, goth-like figure drawn to edgy, off-beat roles…
28 July 2005 – Metro Life – By Martyn Palmer – Tim Burton & Johnny Depp is a collaboration based on a friendship and a shared view that the world is a rather odd place. ‘We have a similar outlook,’ says Depp. ‘A similar sense of humour and sense of the absurd…And I think we also share the view that if you take a step back and observe most people…you realise that they’re actually completely out of their minds. Most people are really nuts, and that’s fascinating.’
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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July 28, 2005 – Bucks Free Press – AT first glance Charlie Bucket, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Johnny Depp, who stars as Willy Wonka in the film, seem to be streets apart. But on closer inspection they could have more in common than you think… Lindi Bilgorri catches up with the Hollywood star.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 – Cinncinati.com – Women have selected Johnny Depp, star of the hit summer film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” as the celebrity they most fantasize about…
July 27, 2005 – Ananova – Johnny Depp has reportedly told ex-fiancee Kate Moss’s on-off boyfriend Pete Doherty to get his act together. The Hollywood star, who split up with Kate in 1998, met up with the supermodel and Pete for lunch recently…
July 26, 2005 – icLiverpool – By Mark Sage, Daily Post – JOHNNY DEPP might be the most famous man who doesn’t want to be famous. But after his performances in Pirates of the Caribbean and Finding Neverland, and his latest outing as Willy Wonka in Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, the 42-year-old is suddenly very hot property in Hollywood…
July 24, 2005 – Femalefirst.co.uk. – Movie hunk Johnny Depp was attracted to new movie CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, because the central character Charlie Bucket reminds him of his two sweet-natured children…
23 July 2005 – The Independent Online Edition – By Andrew Gumbel –
For 15 years, Johnny Depp has been the ideal movie star, the kind who slips under the mass-cultural radar, the kind who avoids most if not quite all of the inane Hollywood gossip about power and status, who never shows up in cynically constructed big-budget spectaculars – who might go entirely unnoticed, indeed, were it not for the fact that he is consistently and quirkily brilliant in just about anything he turns his hand to…
Title: King John
Author: Andrew Collins
Publication: RadioTimes
Issue: 23-29 July 2005
I wish I’d been the one to spot it, but the honour goes to the creature behind ads for a satellite movie channel s few years ago. They montaged clips of Johnny Depp, but treated them to resemble 1920’s film stock: black and white and scratchy. Each showed a wordless facial reaction with piano accompaniment. The thesis: Depp is the great silent star who never was.
That’s Depp in a nutshell. He’s thoroughly modern – trendy, offbeat, rock’n’roll – and yet there’s something deeply old-fashioned about him. He’s a modern classic, combining iconoclasm with a crowd-pleasing populism that’s finally made him bankable as well as cool, thanks to Pirates of the Caribbean.
After achieving cheesy fame in the late 1980s in TV cop show 21 Jump Street, Depp found a more artistic kind under the guidance of director Tim Burton. His fourth collaboration with Burton – they’re a toy-box Scorsese and De Niro – is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It threatens, after Finding Neverland, to make him a Dick Van Dyke with attitude.
So what’s his secret? Dashing good looks aren’t enough (although fans of Chocolate may disagree); nor are the column inches accrued during his wild years smashing up hotel suites and dating Kate Moss. It might be his eternal youthfulness, even in his early 40s,