An Admirers' Site Dedicated to Johnny Depp and His Work
Newsweek, July 4, 2005 – No Depp film ever grossed over $55 million until yes, you guessed it, Pirates of the Caribbean came along and all of a sudden the Hollywood treasure chest hit $652 million world wide. Depp is now the hottest ticket and swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow is recognizable to the very old and very young alike.
Red Hot Inflight Magazine, June 2005 issue, recently ran an article about Johnny entitled Child at Heart by Lynley Dwight. In it the author talks to Johnny about why he chooses roles that tend to be outside the mainstream, what it is like to be a daddy and about why he chooses to work with director Tim Burton.
“Depp’s trademark,” writes Dwight, “is his love of oddball characters, most notably in Edward Scissorhands, Don Juan DeMarco, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Ed Wood, and Even Chocolat.” ‘It’s a theme that I have often returned to,’says Depp, ‘It’s fascinating what society deems as normal and abnormal and who decides and why; how that kind judgement is placed on people. A lot of times people say: Oh, that guy is different, He’s the weirdo…Well, why is he? That’s the kind of thing I’m fascinated by.’
Johnny lives with his girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis and their two small children, Lily Rose and Jack, in a French village called Plan de la Tour. His life took on a decidedly different direction of it’s own when his children were born. Says Depp, “For years I stumbled around and didn’t really know what any of it was about until I had kids.” Johnny has since discovered new meaning and perpective. He says, according to the author, “building my family is true happiness.”
Johnny on Burton: “Tim is doing beautiful stuff, the sets are incredible and the work has been a ball,
Disney and the Make-A-Wish Foundation together are holding a special fund raising event called An Evening of Magic with honorary celebrity cruise directors helping to make dreams come true. The event will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2005, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. aboard the Disney Magic cruise ship at the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, California.
Other celebrities joining Johnny for the magical evening are: Jim Belushi, Jacki Chan, Tim Curry, Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman and John Stamos. Please see the official website for a complete listing.
When Tim Burton proposed the role of Willy Wonka to his friend and frequent collaborator, two-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, he was barely able to get the words out. As Depp relates the conversation, “We were having dinner and he said, ‘I want to talk to you about something. You know that story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Well, I’m going to do it and I’m wondering if you’d want to play….’ and I couldn’t even wait for him to finish the sentence. I said, ‘I’m in. Absolutely. I’m there.’ No question about it.”
“To be chosen to play Willy Wonka in itself a great honor,” says Depp, a long-time fan of Dahl’s work, “but to be chosen by Tim Burton is double, triple the honor. His vision is always amazing, beyond anything you expect. Just the fact that he was involved meant I didn’t need to see a script before committing. If Tim wanted to shoot 18 million feet of film of me staring into a light bulb and I couldn’t blink for three months, I’d do it.”
Before long the two were poring over Burton’s preliminary sketches, discussing Wonka’s look and the themes of the story, falling into a familiar creative rhythm that began when the director cast Depp as the lead in the 1990 poignant fantasy Edward Scissorhands. They subsequently re-teamed for the critically acclaimed Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow and are currently working together on the stop-motion animated feature Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.
Johnny got No. 7 on the yearly Forbes List – last year he was on No.10
Good to know, I did my part for the web rank 😀
He even got there although he has pay rank only 21.
And George Lucas is under it, too :), he has pay rank 1 with Episode 3…hehe…
Power Rank Name Pay Rank Web Rank Press Rank TV Rank
1 Oprah Winfrey 2 2 8 4
2 Tiger Woods 4 12 2 11
3 Mel Gibson 3 13 33 15
4 George Lucas 1 3 41 34
5 Shaquille O’Neal 26 26 5 12
6 Steven Spielberg 5 11 34 22
7 Johnny Depp 21 16 36 31
8 Madonna 11 5 30 19
9 Elton John 15 10 19 24
10 Tom Cruise 30 7 24 16
11 Brad Pitt 51 8 22 17
12 Dan Brown 6 27 39 61
13 Will Smith 24 15 27 20
14 David Letterman 16 61 26 7
15 Lance Armstrong 41 39 9 8
16 Michael Jordan 27 34 16 25
17 Michael Schumacher 8 37 29 81
18 Will Ferrell 16 71 55 36
19 Kobe Bryant 39 47 4 2
20 P Diddy 23 51 38 14
21 Jay Leno 34 33 28 5
22 J.K. Rowling 9 24 69 6
23 Metallica 20 9 50 69
24 Jennifer Lopez 63 6 25 18
25 Desperate Housewives 92 20 10 6
Since today “the International Johnny Depp Forums” are open.
I thought, the only thing this site needs would be an international
board with many languages and members and a lot of fun.
So – come on in – registern and post whatever you like:
go here to the board
just realized, that we have over 20000 visitors now since I opened
the site in February 2004. Thanks to everyone who visited this site!
Your little ears will delight with this Jo Whiley-Johnny Depp audio interview on bbc/radio1. Johnny chats about his fans, about the weirdest thing one of his fans has done and about the prospect of making Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You will need Real Player to listen to this Audio interview. This interview was first published on 22 April 2004.
BBC.co.uk/Radio1 Excerpt:
Whiley: On chatting a lot with fans…
Depp: “There’s no reason to be otherwise really…I think that the kids that come around the people who come around, it’s so nice to meet them. For all intents and purposes they’re my boss aren’t they? they keep me employed.”
Go to Audio Interview
© bbc.co.uk. Reprinted with permission.
The International Johnny Depp Forums just got two more partnersites which can call it now “my board”: findingneverland.net and PotC Web. If you have a JD site and need a JD board, feel free to apply for it!!
I know, it is “truly unbelievable”:
Johnny Depp becomes 42 years old today. And still looks like ten years younger.
We say “Happy Birthday, Johnny!”.
You can post your – international – greetings here in our German Forum, it is open for guests, today.