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Rolling Stones, December 30 2004 – Johnny Depp: How He Found His Own Private Neverland
Title: Johnny Depp: How He Found His Own Private Neverland
Author: Erik Hedegaard
Publication: Rolling Stones
Issue: December 30, 2004 – January 13, 2005
In “finding neverland” Johnny Depp plays Peter Pan author, J.M. Barrie with muted, understated ease, and in so doing he may well wind up with his second Oscar nomination. It’s been quite some year for Depp, 41, both good and not so good. His friend Marlon Brando died in July. But then came Never-land. He recently finished filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for his friend and frequent director Tim Burton. He’s soon to start shooting the sequel, maybe two, to his biggest hit ever, Pirates of the Caribbean. He recently plunked down $3.6 million for a deserted island in the Bahamas.
What was the best present you got this year?
Probably this gig. playing Willy Wonka.
Favorite movie this year?
Yeah, it’s an old one [1944] called The Mask of Demitrios with Peter Loire and Sydney Greenstreet. I watched it about five times in a row. Brilliant. I don’t see new movies that much. If I do see a new movie, it’s a kids movie. The Incredibles was really, really great. My son. Jack, now runs around with his little Mr. Incredible doll. The beauty is, Jack calls Mr. Incredible “Mr. Credible.” which really killed me.
Golden Globes Nomination
Yeeeeeah!!!
Johnny was just nominated for the Golden Globe Award – as ACTOR!!! Imagine that! And Finding Neverland for best movie, best director, best soundtrack and best screenplay!
Here again for better view:
Marc Forster, Best Director, FINDING NEVERLAND
JOHNNY DEPP, BEST ACTOR, FINDING NEVERLAND
FINDING NEVERLAND, BEST FILM
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Best Original score, FN
David Magee, Best Screenplay, FN
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Trailer
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Yo ho,
since today the teaser/trailer for Johnny’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is available. It is toooooo funny!
Watch it in our downloads section
UnCut, December 2004 – Cooler Than You
Title: Cooler Than You
Author: Stephen Dalton
Publication: UnCut
Issue: December 2004
FOR A WHILE back there, we almost lost Johnny Depp. Torn between success and excess, art and commerce, Hollywood’s Lost Boy could easily have coasted into a perpetual twilight of self-loathing like his friend and idol Marlon Brando. More likely still was a slow drift into art house exile in France. There were even moments when the darkness of River Phoenix or Kurt Cobain could have consumed him.
And yet, in 2004, Depp isn’t just back, he’s back on top. After countless flops punctuated by a couple of hits, the uncompromising 41 -year-old is currently basking in the glory of a sustained run of box-office smashes – first his Oscar-nominated turn as buccaneer Jack Sparrow in the theme-park swashbuckler Pirates Of The Caribbean then running away with Robert Rodriguez’s splatterpunk “taco western” Once Upon A Time In Mexico, and now his sensitive portrayal of Peter Pan creator JM Barrie in Finding Neverland, from Monsters Ball director Marc Forster. After years playing emotionally scarred fuck-ups, drug addicts, freaks and outcasts, the Lost Boy has come in from the cold.
GLIDING THROUGH the ballroom of Venice’s Des Bains hotel to meet Uncut, Depp radiates the serenity of a man with nothing left to prove. In his dreamy, faraway voice, he talks about Barrie.
“It’s important to keep in contact with those qualities we had as children,”
Finding Neverland on set 3
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Finding Neverland on set 2
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Finding Neverland on set 1
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Finding Neverland TV report
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People Magazine, November 22, 2004
Johnny’s Depth
Sure, he’s still cool, but Johnny Depp is a new man, creating Oscar buzz with Finding Neverland and cherishing his family-though he still loves a whoopee cushion.
Johnny Depp was having his very own take-your-daughter-to-work day. For months he had been commuting from the set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory near London to see his fami- ly-Lily-Rose, 5, Jack, 2, and their mom, his longtime companion, Vanessa Paradis, 31-at their retreat on the French Riviera. Every weekend was the same, says producer Richard Zanuck: On Friday after Work Depp took a two-hour flight to Nice followed by a two-hour drive to the family house in a tiny French village, then headed back to London again every Sunday night. The trip never Wore him out. “Monday morning he’d be all smiles and say; ‘I just had the greatest time with my family’ ” says Zanuck. “It seemed to refresh him.”
But he brought the family to England for the last month of shooting. And nothing could quite compare to the charge he got bringing Lily-Rose to the set on Nov. 9. Zanuck explains, “He Wanted her to see him playing with the Oompa Loompas.”
Talk about perks. Less than a year Hollywood’s sweetly scruffy outsider was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the $654 million-grossing Pirates of the Caribbean, Depp, 41, is once again riding high on a Wave of good fortune.