Has the success of the Pirates franchise trapped Johnny Depp in the mainstream fame he has avoided for so long? – by Stephanie Bunbury for The Age.
Just off the top of my head, here are three very good things about Johnny Depp:
(a) He is, as the Victorians used to say, as beautiful as the day.
(b) He isn’t stupid.
(c) He doesn’t say much.
Which makes him a film journalist’s dream, really. In fact, I don’t know of any movie hack who doesn’t go a bit mushy round the edges when JD’s name comes up. Johnny Depp is one of the great Hollywood stories: the untrained teen heartthrob who turned out to be one of the truly serious, committed and brilliant screen actors of our era; the bad boy turned good; the romantic adventurer who finally met the right woman – French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, with whom he now has two children – and settled down, just as romantically, in the Provencale countryside. [More…]
