HOST: Oprah Winfrey
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ellen Rakieten
JOHNNY DEPP AND KATE WINSLET
Unidentified Man #1: All right. Here we go, guys.
Unidentified Man #2: Oprah’s on the way.
Unidentified Man #3: Good show, good show, good show.
OPRAH WINFREY: Johnny Depp’s OPRAH show debut, the sexiest man alive. When you look at the cover…
Mr. JOHNNY DEPP (Actor): I tried not to look at the cover.
WINFREY: A rare interview.
Most romantic encounter…
Mr. DEPP: Wow.
WINFREY: …that you can speak of.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah. Better have a drink.
WINFREY: From ’80s teen heartthrob to A-list movie star…
Mr. DEPP: I was convinced that I was going to be fired.
WINFREY: …and the love of his wife.
Mr. DEPP: I just knew.
WINFREY: Plus…
Ms. KATE WINSLET (Actress): Oh, this is my kind of talk show.
WINFREY: …the ultra-talented Kate Winslet.
A lot of people make a big deal about your weight. You look spectacular.
Next.
Yes. Good to see you. Good to see you. Great. Good to see you. Whoo! Thank you. Thank you. Too much. Thank you. So I hope you go out and vote today, because I just did. I just did. Everybody has to vote today. Now,
OK, I know my next guest is not going to like this. He’s not going to like
it. But whether he likes it or not, I’m going to hold it up. There you go:
Sexiest Man Alive. I’m going to hold it up. Sexiest Man Alive. I don’t
know, what would that feel like? I don’t know.Now I haven’t seen him. I have not seen him at all. I have not seen him,
because I don’t meet the gu–if I’ve never met a guest, and I like to meet
them when you meet them so I can have the same drool factor that you do. But my producers have met him. And they just came in and went, `Oh, my God!’ And I said, `Really, what is it?’ and she went, `Oh, my God!’ So, OK, I can’t
wait. Did you just see the movie, though, right? Isn’t it wonderful? It’s
really wonderful. OK. And let me ask you this. Who cried? Did you cry?
Oh, you all cried! You cried. I was–you know what? I said they are not
going to get me. I tried so hard not to cry! And only till the last–I
didn’t cry for the (mumbles), I didn’t cry when the (mumbles), even when the (mumbles). But then the last scene, I was like gone.
OK. Johnny Depp’s new movie, “Finding Neverland”–it’ll get you. It’ll get you. His performance is just superb, is it not? It really is superb. It’s
no wonder why he’s called one of the most gifted actors of his generation. Let’s take a look.
(Excerpt from “21 Jump Street”)
WINFREY: The year, 1987. Teen girls everywhere just lost their minds over a young Johnny Depp in “21 Jump Street.”
(Excerpts from “21 Jump Street,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street”)
WINFREY: Fans screamed for his big-screen debut in the classic horror flick “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
(Excerpt from “A Nightmare on Elm Street”)
WINFREY: Johnny shredded his pretty boy image in “Edward Scissorhands” and critics raved. His smoldering sex appeal cannot be denied. Who could forget
his performance as a passionate Gypsy in the Oscar-nominated “Chocolat.” This year, Johnny swashbuckled his way through “Pirates of the Caribbean”…
(Excerpt from “Pirates of the Caribbean”)
WINFREY: …and scored an Oscar nomination for best actor. He is a self-proclaimed Hollywood outsider, who lives with his beautiful girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two children, Jack and Lily-Rose. Though reluctant he may be, Johnny Depp has been named the Sexiest Man Alive.
Reluctant, sexy, Johnny Depp!
It’ll be fine.
Mr. DEPP: Uh-oh.
WINFREY: Uh-oh. So, listen, they told me you like good wine. They told me you like good wine.
Mr. DEPP: Well, that’s the one.
WINFREY: So I pulled up one of my bottles. This is for you. A toast to you, toast to you.
Mr. DEPP: Oh, we’re going to be drunk in a minute.
WINFREY: No, we won’t. We’re not going to drink the whole thing. Here’s to your superb performance in “Finding Neverland.”
Mr. DEPP: Thank you. Thank you.
WINFREY: Ooh, good.
Mr. DEPP: What do you mean we’re not going to drink the whole thing?
WINFREY: That is pretty good, isn’t it?
Mr. DEPP: Don’t you think we should?
WINFREY: Yeah, well, the–we can.
Mr. DEPP: All right.
WINFREY: You can. You can. I know it’s all a daze. But I remember seeing you briefly on the red carpet at Oscars.
Mr. DEPP: That was real weird, I mean, just because I’m not used to that kind of event.
WINFREY: Hoopla.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah.
WINFREY: Hoopla.
Mr. DEPP: Function.
WINFREY: It’s been quite a year for you. Mr. DEPP: Yeah.
WINFREY: How did you feel about being nominated and being in all of that hoopla?
Mr. DEPP: Shocked, you know. Completely shocked. WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. DEPP: It was just–yeah, it was just super bizarre, you know. I mean, I’m still in shock over that.
WINFREY: Yeah. And so when you’re–OK. First of all, it was a Disney film. It’s “Pirates of the Caribbean.” It has since raised $650 million worldwide.
But I think…
Mr. DEPP: That’s real weird.
WINFREY: I think in the beginning, people just thought, you know, it’s a summer movie. It’s about some pirates and the Caribbean and it’s kids. Nobody…
Mr. DEPP: That’s kind of what I thought.
WINFREY: Yeah. And nobody–but, obviously, when you read this script, you thought that you could bring something to the Captain Jack character that nobody else could.
Mr. DEPP: Well, I had–I mean, I had this sort of very strong idea of Captain–what Captain Jack…
WINFREY: Sparrow.
Mr. DEPP: …Sparrow should be. And was that his name? Ba… WINFREY: Yeah. His name’s Captain Jack Sparrow.
Mr. DEPP: Thank you very much.
WINFREY: OK.
Mr. DEPP: And just sort of stuck to my guns and went in there and did it.
So, I mean, as you say, you know, the Academy Award nomination was a very strange thing, especially since for the first month, I was convinced I was
going to be fired.
WINFREY: Really? Mr. DEPP: Oh, yeah.
WINFREY: Because I heard that the studio wasn’t so delighted at first with your interpretation.
Mr. DEPP: They were a little nervous.
WINFREY: What? They thought he was a little–what was the word they used?
Mr. DEPP: They used a lot…
WINFREY: OK.
Mr. DEPP: …a lot…
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. DEPP: …but understandably nervous.
WINFREY: What, they didn’t like the gold teeth or they didn’t like–they thought he was a little flirty?
Mr. DEPP: Effete… WINFREY: Yes.
Mr. DEPP: …was one. Yeah. They didn’t like any of it at first, yeah. The gold teeth, the beard dangles, the things in the hair, the dreadlocks, the…
WINFREY: They didn’t like any of it.
Mr. DEPP: No.
WINFREY: And is it true that you modeled…
Mr. DEPP: They especially didn’t like me.
WINFREY: And is it true you modelled him after Keith Richards? Mr. DEPP: Keith was one of the main ingredients. Absolutely. WINFREY: Really? You did.
Mr. DEPP: Oh, there he is. He’s the best pirate in the world.
WINFREY: I bet that’s fun because you just sta–get to live out of your imagination.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah. No. Exactly. WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. DEPP: I mean, you get to sort of–and for me, I mean, having done the homework for the character, I just have to sort of step in…
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. DEPP: …step into frame.
WINFREY: What was the homework? What was the homework?
Mr. DEPP: I actually–Captain Jack was–this is going to sound very weird, but he was sort of born in a sauna. Yeah. I was–I figured the pirates would have, you know, spent a lot of time in the sun.
WINFREY: Yeah, in the sun.
Mr. DEPP: Sometimes, you know, grueling, you know… WINFREY: Heat, yeah.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah, serious heat. So I would go into the sauna for great lengths of time, which I don’t recommend, by the way. And you start to get a little woozy after about 30 minutes. I don’t think it’s very good for you.
So…
WINFREY: No, they advise not to stay in that long.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah, yeah. I know.
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. DEPP: I know.
WINFREY: And that’s where the character came from?
Mr. DEPP: Yeah. That’s where the…
WINFREY: Are you making this up or is that one wine sip…
Mr. DEPP: No, no, it’s–no, no.
WINFREY: …that one little sip did that to you? Yeah.
Mr. DEPP: Yeah, that’s where he came from. Yeah.
WINFREY: So I read–starting at the beginning, by the time you were 15, that you were–already had lived in 20 different homes. Is that true?
