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| | Johnny Depp wanted to wear footie pajamas & bunny ears for 'The Tourist' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Much like the barrage of Angelina Jolie interviews, there are lots of new Johnny Depp interviews, all for The Tourist. Unfortunately, there aren?t really any new photos of him floating around, so we have to make due with some older pics, and some stills from The Tourist. Once again, Pop Sugar has some of the most extensive interview slices, and Johnny is cracking me up with some of his answers. He talks about how he can?t grow a full beard, so basically he had to wear a stunt beard glued to his face. But the funniest part is when he?s talking about the pajamas:
In terms of where you are at in your career as a global movie star, what makes you choose a project?
Johnny Depp: I never think of myself on those terms as a “huge global movie star,” so I can’t help but smile because it just doesn’t register as me. It still feels like I’m doing the same bits, just trying something different each time, exploring something new. It’s important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again. Many years ago Marlon Brando asked me, “How many films do you do per year, kid?” I said, “I dunno, maybe three.” He said, “Too much. We only have so many faces in our pockets.” And I went, you know, that’s really true, but I feel like I still got a few faces left.
Many of your most famous characters have tons of elaborate costumes and makeup. What did you bring to your character Frank?
JD: The story, the script, and the character dictate where you’re going to go. I imagine someone I may have known in the past that reminds me of a character. [The Tourist's] Frank has this heavily groomed beard, which I by the way can’t grow so was all glued on. It’s a perfectly landscaped beard, which came from a guy I knew years ago and I was always fascinated with, because it looked like something in a jar. I couldn’t believe someone could actually treat [a beard] so pristinely.
In The Tourist there’s a scene where you’re in pajamas; how did that come to be?
JD: I wanted footie pajamas with little bunny ears, but [the director] wouldn’t go for it. Initially he was supposed to be either in a towel or his underpants, but there was something about a grown man in pajamas that you’d pull out of Leave It to Beaver’s dad’s drawer. The imagery, juxtaposed with the background of Venice, I just thought there was something really funny about it.
The canal scenes are intense. Did you go in the dirty water or was that left to the stunt men?
JD: All that stuff ? doing the stunts, being yanked down a Venice canal in a boat, being handcuffed to the railing ? was way secondary to the immense fear that I had of going into “the drink.” The stunt guys who did have to go into [the canal] were on serious antibiotics like weeks beforehand. I remember being cuffed to that railing and getting ready to take off and saying to myself, you’re going in . . . you’re going into this water. Luckily, I didn’t, but it was pretty close a couple of times.
Did you have any actual tourist experiences while shooting in Venice?
JD: My tourist times were between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. That was the only time that I could really wander and have a look around, because there’s virtually no one on the streets at that point. Everywhere you look is kind of a visual poem; I was amazed ? these wonderful facades, clotheslines with people’s laundry, and little signs on churches “bread for the poor.” It’s a beautiful, magical place. That’s the Venice I like to see as opposed to going into the gondola and putting a flower in my teeth. I like the nighttime Venice, the quiet Venice, when it feels like the ghosts are around.
What sort of artistic freedom do you look for in roles? Was it always that way?
JD: Is there something in there outside the author’s intent that I can add that is maybe a little bit different, that is coming from the outside and is not done to death. Is there something I can add to make it interesting? I’ve always had that, it’s probably a bad habit. I remember doing Platoon back in ‘86 with Oliver Stone. I was rewriting my dialogue, which is probably why he mostly cut me out of the film. I suppose Cry Baby was the first character I felt good about. With Edward Scissorhands, nobody really knew what I was going to do; even Tim [Burton], bless him, was a little nervous initially with my take on it, but it all worked out. I guess it probably comes from being locked into television for years and the parameters were so rigid there was no room for movement. There was no room to grow so I swore to myself after that I wouldn’t do that again. If I had to go back to construction, that’s OK, I was pretty good at that. Pumping gas, I can do that too.
Paris is home to you now. What makes you love the city so much?
JD: Everything. The literary history in Paris has been and always will be a fascination for me. The books that were written here, art history, paintings, painters who wandered these streets, great poets ? it’s just always been magical for me and I’ve always oddly felt more at home here than anywhere else in the world. I suppose just to be surrounded by all this art, and all this incredible work that people have done over the years. You can feel. It’s still there, you still feel all those real writers. It’s very inspiring.
Your character in this movie is not Johnny Depp cool; how did you figure out what you wanted to do with this character?
JD: The idea was to make him really the everyman of the movie, the math teacher who doesn’t have particular highs or particular lows in his life and has a slight amount of OCD in his weird routines. [I wanted to] take this normal guy and put him in these high-stakes situations that were less than normal. The electronic cigarette was the device that would ring the alarm that he’s in panic mode.
The director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck said you added the humor to the film; what is the story behind that?
JD: I thought, if you took this guy and put him in these situations, especially if he’s going to stick around, he has to recognize the level of absurdity in what he’s going through. Also, if I see a gag coming around the corner, I snatch it up. I can’t help myself. You spend 90 percent of the time when you’re working trying to make your costar laugh, and I guess some of it’s in the film.
What was it like meeting and working with Angelina?
She’s a real treat to get into the ring with. She’s a lot of fun and funny! She’s deeply committed to the work, has a great approach and is very smart. She also has a very very absurd and perverse sense of humor. We met, oddly, right before we did this, which was just weird because we have a lot of mutual friends, acquaintances, and people we’ve worked with. When we sat down together, it was kind of instant. We got each other. Within minutes we were yakking about our kids, the perils of parenthood and all that fun stuff.
Do you hope to have the chance to work with her again?
Boy, I certainly would like to think so. I hope so. If she’ll have me again, I’d be more than happy. She’s a good girl. I have a lot of respect for her. In the face of all that she, Brad, and the kids have to deal with, being globally under the microscope every second of the day, she’s grounded. She’s as cool, normal and low key [a woman] as you’d want to meet. She doesn’t take it all that seriously. She is a wonderful mommy, a great mommy, which you’ve gotta take your hat off to as well. And she’s out there trying to do things in the world, to help. She’s impressive. She’s a force.
[From Pop Sugar (two stories)]
Depp also talked more about Angelina when he was interviewed for Entertainment Tonight (the video is here). Depp describes Jolie as ?a very normal girl” and that ?Angelina’s life with Brad and the kids has been kind of overly shockingly documented and what I was pleasantly surprised by is she’s not really fazed by it. She’s a very normal girl and she’s very, very smart and very thoughtful, very kind. The two main things: This woman who has become this wonderful mother — she’s a fantastic mother — and very funny as well; good sense of humor.” He also talks a little about how he and Angelina brought their kids together, and how Jack Depp played videogames with Pax.
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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| | Johnny Depp is Vanity Fair's Jan. cover boy, compares Angelina to Elizabeth Taylor | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Johnny Depp is Vanity Fair?s January cover boy - all to promote The Tourist, which opens in a few weeks. I was slightly surprised to see Depp cover VF again - it feels like he just had a cover? but I guess that was last year? Yeah. So the photo shoot is by Annie Leibovitz and the interview is conducted by Patti Smith. Depp talks about everything, really - he covers working with Angelina (including a comparison to Elizabeth Taylor!), to Captain Jack being gay, to feeling like he should have been born in a different era. Here are VF?s excerpts:
?Meeting her and getting to know her was a real pleasant surprise,? Johnny Depp tells rock legend Patti Smith, writing for Vanity Fair, of working with Angelina Jolie on their upcoming film, The Tourist. ?You don?t know what she might be like?if she has any sense of humor at all. I was so pleased to find that she is incredibly normal, and has a wonderfully kind of dark, perverse sense of humor.?
Depp tells Smith of the challenges he and his co-star faced with constant media scrutiny on set. ?Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and her husband, Brad?all their kids,? Depp says of Angelina and her famous brood. ?There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.?
Depp tells Smith about the difficulties that arose while filming together?having to be discreet to avoid unwarranted speculation?which included ?having to hide, sometimes not even being able to talk to each other in public because someone will take a photograph and it will be misconstrued and turned into some other sh-t.?
Depp compares Angelina to another famous leading lady. ?I?ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years,? he says. ?You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she?s hilarious. Angie?s got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach.?
On the set of the upcoming installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, Smith asks Depp what it?s like to play the iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow. ?Somebody once asked [Hunter S. Thompson], ?What is the sound of one hand clapping, Hunter?,? and he smacked him. Captain Jack was kind of like that for me, an opening up of this part of yourself,? Depp says. ?There is a little Bugs Bunny in all of us.?
?They couldn?t stand him. They just couldn?t stand him,? Depp says of Disney?s reaction to his controversial interpretation of Sparrow. ?I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ?He?s ruining the movie.? Depp reveals to Smith, however, that he remained unfazed by the studio?s hysteria. ?Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What?s wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?? And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite? ?But didn?t you know that all my characters are gay?? Which really made her nervous.?
Depp tells Smith why his role of a mathematician in The Tourist appealed to him: ?I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.?
Of the complications of having played so many eccentric roles in his career, he says, ?They?re all still there, which on some level can?t be the healthiest thing in the world?. I always picture it as this chest of drawers in your body?Ed Wood is in one, the Hatter is in another, Scissorhands is in another?. They?re still very close to the surface.?
Elsewhere in the interview, Depp talks to Smith about their shared fondness for the Monkees? 60s pop hit ?Daydream Believer?; the music career he almost had (?Going into acting was an odd deviation from a particular road that I was on in my late teens, early 20s, because I had no desire, no interest, really, in it at all. I was a musician and I was a guitarist, and that?s what I wanted to do?); being born in the wrong time (?I really believe that, at a certain point, if you?re born in ?60-something or whatever, you got ripped off?you know what I mean? I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time?); and what he?d still like to accomplish: ?[Marlon Brando said,] Why don?t you just take a year and go and study Shakespeare, or go and study Hamlet. Go and work on Hamlet and play that part. Play that part before you?re too old?. So what he was trying to tell me was: play that f-cking part, man. Play that part before you?re too long in the tooth. Play it. And I would like to. I?d really, really like to.?
[From Vanity Fair]
Sigh? Johnny. Love him. It?s interesting that Johnny acknowledges that he and Angelina had to be wary of being photographed together, just to avoid tabloid craziness. Could there have actually been something to the stories about Vanessa Paradis trying to get Depp to withdraw from the film? Eh? I doubt it.
VF photos courtesy of VF online (there?s a gallery of new and old images).
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| | Johnny Depp's good looks ruined by constant partying with Keith Richards | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Do you remember where you were when you realized you were too old to stay out partying most of the night and still go to the work the next day?
Some of you may not have had that realization yet, but for the rest of us, it’s a grim step on the long ladder towards maturity.
Johnny Depp is apparently one of those who hasn’t given in to maturity yet, and it’s taking a toll on his looks. That’s unfortunate, because he is the Sexiest Man Alive, no matter what People magazine says.
Those eyes, those cheekbones…
Those eyes are apparently plenty bloodshot lately, because 47-year-old Johnny has reportedly been spending too much time with the High Priest of Partying, 66-year-old Keith Richards, in London.
Because of the partying, Johnny needs to dunk his head in a tub of ice water to get his “bloated face back into leading man form,” an eyewitness told The National Enquirer.
Johnny Depp has taken to dunking his head into a tub of ice water to recover from recent nights of drinking with his Pirates of the Caribbean co-star Keith Richards.
Depp, 47, and Richards, 66, have been boozing it up so much that the film crew has resorted to the morning-after ice treatments….”Johnny’s movie star good looks are completely wrecked after a night of drinking with Keith,” a set insider told The Enquirer. “It’s gotten so bad that Johnny wakes up and his pretty boy face is bloated from the boozing. Keith, who quit doing drugs in the late ’70s, still likes to drink, and he and Johnny have been overdoing it almost every night.”
It’s impossible to tell if the much-wrinkled Keith has had a rough night, “but with Johnny it’s very obvious,” said the insider. “That’s why the crew has a tub of ice ready for him every morning.”
[National Enquirer, print edition, November 29, 2010 issue]
Johnny’s rep denies he’s getting dunked in ice for his hangovers.
Keith is reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow’s father in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, but the two have been friends for over 15 years.
“Johnny and Keith’s friendship is based on a mutual respect for music, art — and drinking. Let’s just hope Johnny doesn’t end up looking like Keith when he gets older!”
[National Enquirer, print edition, November 29, 2010 issue]
Amen to that.
I thought Johnny looked a bit bloated in the previews for The Tourist, but I was hoping it was due to the facial hair.
Hopefully Johnny isn’t really is losing his looks now, after all his years of drugs and drinking. Tone it down with Keith, Johnny. Alternate alcohol and water. And cherish the sanctity of those cheekbones before they turn into jowls.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie & Johnny Depp cover Entertainment Weekly | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Today is like Christmas for Brangeloonies. First, we get Angelina Jolie?s Vogue cover and a funny, interesting interview where she gushes about handsome Brad and the kids. And now we get Jolie all sexed up with Johnny Depp. Shockingly, Depp is the one who looks like he needs a nap, and Angelina looks strangely rested. I really think she must have that effect on men - Brad looks sleepy a lot too. Anyway, I guess Angelina and Johnny are previewing The Tourist, which comes out in mere weeks? let?s see? it?s being released in America on December 10. Less than a month, people!
Angelina Jolie. Johnny Depp. They?re two of the biggest stars on the planet and, believe it or not, they?d never met before making The Tourist. Now, in this week?s Holiday Movie Preview issue, the two A-listers talk exclusively to EW about their new Venice-set romantic thriller (a throwback to glamorous Euro capers like To Catch a Thief and Charade), the struggles they faced getting the pricey movie to the screen, and, of course, a blow-by-blow account of when they finally got together for the first time.
How was it possible that these two stars, who have made 70 films between them and live within an hour of one another in the south of France, had never met?
?We?re both not that social,? Jolie tells EW. ?I don?t think either one of us goes out of our house, especially in France. We?re both locked away.?
Depp admits that he?d always wanted to work with Jolie and was a fan, but wasn?t prepared for the woman he actually encountered.
?So much has been written about Angie and Brad [Pitt]. They?re sort of the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of our era. I knew she was a big star, but I didn?t know what to expect??
For the full story of how Angelina met Johnny and their upcoming film The Tourist, check out this week?s Holiday Movie Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Nov. 12.
[From Entertainment Weekly]
Johnny didn?t know what to expect and?? What did he find? Did he find out that she likes to drink wine while attempting to manipulate him into bed? Did he find out that she guzzles Gummi Bears??!? I need to know!
Oh, okay, I found more excerpts:
Jolie on why she chose the film: “I wanted to do something that would be a great vacation for my kids. I got a phone call saying, ‘Okay, the film’s shooting in Venice,’ and I said, ‘I don’t know what it is, but I’m going to say yes.’”
Jolie on exploring Depp’s office: “As I was waiting, I noticed these beautiful pictures of his [girlfriend, actress Vanessa Paradis] and kids and all of his paintings. He’s an artist, and you feel that in any space he’s in. When he walked in, he was as interesting as I’d hoped he’d be.”
Depp on being nervous to meet Jolie: “Well, there is sort of that. Because on one level it’s like, ‘Here we go, kid. We’re about to get into the ring together.’ We sat there and babbled about our kids, and it was a huuuuuge relief. I was pleasantly surprised that she has an incredibly perverse sense of humor. She’s a really cool broad.”
[From Buzz Sugar]
Oh, so she?s a ?cool broad? with an ?incredibly perverse sense of humor?. Sounds like she tried to stab him with one of her knives when they first met and/or touched his dong. Also: why is Angelina hanging out in Johnny?s office? Alone? I?m intrigued.
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| | Johnny Depp dresses up as Jack Sparrow to visit a London school | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some newish photos of Johnny Depp, dressed up in character as Jack Sparrow, on set in England yesterday. While he had all of his junk on this morning (or maybe it was yesterday), he also paid a visit to a London school. The photos are here - Johnny looks hilariously deranged standing next to normal children. What would you do if you were a kid and Jack Sparrow came to visit your school? You would freak the f-ck out, right?
OH to be a kid again. Hollywood Lord Johnny Depp was a surprise guest at a London school’s assembly this morning.
The actor - who is currently filming the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie in Greenwich - took some time out to make an impromptu trip to Meridian primary school dressed as his character Captain Jack Sparrow.
His visit came after one of the school’s pupils, Beatrice, wrote a letter to him saying: “Captain Jack Sparrow, at Meridian Primary School we are a bunch of budding young pirates and we were having a bit of trouble mutiny against the teachers. We’d love it if you could come and help. From Beatrice De Lap aged nine, a budding pirate.”
Teachers only found out the actor was coming ten minutes before he arrived and parents were shocked when their kids came running out telling them what had happened.
[From The Sun]
Aw? a kid wrote a fan letter and Johnny showed up! That?s magnificent. I imagine there were a few damsels-in-distress/teachers who were swooning too. But just one little criticism, because my mom?s a teacher: I bet those kids weren?t able to be calmed down for the rest of the day. Ideally, this is the kind of visit that should be scheduled for the end of the school day, not the morning. Still, it?s an adorable thing to do, and bless him.
Photos of Depp in costume in Greenwich on October 6, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.
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| | Johnny Depp: On the Set of On Stranger Tides | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Busily working on the fourth installment of his hit movie franchise, Johnny Depp was in character as Captain Jack Sparrow on the set in London, England on Tuesday (September 28).
Being directed by Rob Marshall and co-starring Penelope Cruz, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is in production while having been slated for a May 20, 2011 release date.
Aside from his "Pirates of the Caribbean" duties, Depp is now being rumored to reunite with Gore Verbinski in an animated remake of "The Lone Ranger".
With both Johnny and Gore having worked together on "Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End," Depp would reportedly take on the role of Tonto in the Disney film.
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| | Johnny Depp Keith Richards: London Lads | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Looking to have a boys? night on the town, Johnny Depp and Keith Richards were spotted out and about in London, England last night (September 15).
The ?Pirates of the Caribbean? costars headed over to the C London Restaurant where they grabbed some dinner while wearing similar fedora hats.
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| | Johnny Depp jams with Eddie Vedder and Patti Smith to raise money for West Memphis 3 | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Johnny Depp took part in a benefit concert and poetry reading in Little Rock, Arkansas over the weekend to help pay the legal fees of the “West Memphis Three,” a group of then-teenagers who were convicted in 1993 of the murder of three eight year-old boys. There is recently uncovered DNA evidence at the crime scene that points to another suspect, the stepfather of one of the murdered boys, and many believe that the teenagers were wrongfully convicted. I don’t much about this case, but it’s been the subject of two different documentaries and several books. There’s a huge movement to free these men. (You can learn more about it on Wikipedia, this Salon article and on some of the many websites for their defense.) Retrials have been denied and the case is scheduled to go before the Arkansas Supreme Court on September 30th. During the performance Depp read from the diary of one of the convicted men now on death row, Damien Echols, and performed guitar while Eddie Vedder and Patti Smith sang. Some videos are below.
Johnny Depp, along with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines, held a music and poetry session Saturday to help raise money to pay legal fees for the West Memphis Three, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The West Memphis Three are Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley, Jr., three men convicted in the 1993 murders of three West Memphis 8-year-old boys. Depp has gone on record saying he believes the three men wrongfully accused of the crimes and vowed to help raise legal fees to help with their defense.
More than 2,000 people packed Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall to support the West Memphis Three. Many in Arkansas say the West Memphis Three were wrongfully tried and convicted.
Depp and other celebrities are not the only ones asking for the release of the three men. Some of the parents of the three children killed now back the convicted getting new trials and hope celebrities like Depp and others will bring national attention.
Depp grew up Owensboro, Kentucky, about 200 miles outside Arkansas.
[From Radar Online]
I didn’t know Depp grew up in Kentucky! This isn’t the first time he’s been involved with this cause, as Depp spoke out on behalf of these men earlier this year on a 48 Hours special on the case. It was good of him to lend his celebrity, and I hope that these three men are finally granted fair and complete trials after 17 years behind bars, especially in light of all the evidence that points to another murderer.
Johnny Depp reads from Damien Echols’ journal. Echols is currently on death row, and you can read an interview with him here.
Depp performs with Eddie Vedder
Patti Smith sings “Dancing Barefoot” while Eddie Vetter and Johnny Depp perform
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He?s always been the consummate entertainer, and Johnny Depp revealed some tidbits from the forthcoming ?Pirates of the Caribbean 4? flick during a two-minute video shown at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con.
In the spot, Depp (who was in his Captain Jack Sparrow character) revealed, ?You may have heard whisperings and rumours that Captain Jack Sparrow be recruiting a crew, to undertake a voyage to the fountain of youth ? Not true! Course not!?
?But even if it weren?t not true, you wouldn?t be interested in joining me would you!? Eh? No? Thought not. I do admit, that they?d be very substantial dangers along the way. Including, but not limited to: zombies, cutthroats, mermaids, and a vicious and vivacious Penelope Cruz. Which is why I?m not going! No sir. It's impossible to find the place anyway.?
?No-one knows where it is. Of course, they'd have to have a bloody map. Or a Bloody Mary. Or both. Which is not a bad idea in fact, a Bloody Mary. Bloody Marys all round! It's on the mouse. Barman!?
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He?s one of the biggest movie stars of all time, and now Johnny Depp is trying his hand at producing and putting out music.
The ?Pirates of the Caribbean? stud is set to launch his own record label and is already assembling a roster of bands.
An insider told press, ?Johnny has always been passionate about music. He?s taking a really hands-on approach to signing acts.
?Obviously he can?t get to as many gigs as he would like but he?s got a good team around him and will personally vet any signings that they make.?
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