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Johnny Depp: Music Video Director
Added 14 years agoSource: Celebrity Gossip
Johnny Depp: Music Video Director
He’s accomplished more than most actors in showbusiness during his lengthy career, and now it seems Johnny Depp is taking a turn behind the camera.

The “Public Enemies” stud was spotted at the helm of a music video shoot for the band Babybird on Tuesday afternoon in the UK.

Depp chose Hatfield House in Herts, England for the shoot, where he spent a total of two days crafting the video. As could be expected, Johnny stayed away from the paparazzi as much as possible, though they caught him having a smoke break.

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Is Johnny Depp hurting his Oscar chances by playing a vampire?
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Is Johnny Depp hurting his Oscar chances by playing a vampire?
Commenter Sassy requested we write a Johnny Depp post, and she got my hopes up that Johnny had been officially cast as The Riddler for the third Christopher Nolan-helmed Batman movie. Nothing has been announced though! Last year, there was a lot of coverage of those rumors - many sources had Depp cast as The Riddler, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin. The speculation got so intense, even Johnny had to come out and say that no one had spoken to him about the role, but that he would love to do it. At Comic-Con, Gary Oldman (Gordon in the Batman series) told the crowd that the next Batman would be filming next year, and would be released in 2011. Oldman did not make any confirmations on casting though - but they still have time, so I?m not worried. I think Johnny?s got a pretty good shot at it.

While looking up that information, I did find two cool little Depp stories. According to The Bosh?s sources, Johnny is looking to enroll his kids in school in England, not France or America. It seems Johnny has purchased a mansion in Bath, England, and he?s been visiting the schools in the area. One of the school?s spokepeople told The Bosh, ?As yet, he hasn’t enrolled his children and I believe he is looking at other schools. If he is thinking of us for September, he’d better be quick as the school is filling up fast for the new term, particularly with overseas students. We’ve seen a real jump in students from overseas.” I have no idea where the Paradis-Depp children go to school now - I would imagine that family is as nomadic as the Jolie-Pitts, so my guess is that there are private tutors involved.

Meanwhile, it looks like one of Johnny?s upcoming projects is the oft-rumored Dark Shadows, which was a cult supernatural drama in the 1960s. It had ghosts, werewolves, monsters, witches and a vampire named Barnabas Collins. Guess who Johnny is playing? The blood-sucker himself! But now the Los Angeles Times has a warning for Johnny - vampires are cursed in Hollywood? if you want to win awards, that it.

Is Johnny Depp driving a stake through his hope to win an Oscar someday? The three-time loser (”Sweeney Todd,” “Finding Neverland,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl”) and Oscarless director Tim Burton are aiming to bring cult drama “Dark Shadows” back from the dead.

Don’t they know that vampire tales are cursed in Hollywood? Oscar voters didn’t nominate Bela Lugosi for “Dracula” and Emmy voters recently ? and shockingly ? snubbed Anna Paquin in “True Blood” just as they had Sarah Michele Gellar in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Maybe Johnny has false hope because he starred in “Ed Wood” with Martin Landau, who won the Oscar for best supporting actor while stumbling around on screen in a vampire cape. Memo to Johnny: Landau wasn’t pretending to be a real vampire as you’ll do when assuming the role of 175-year-old blood-sucker Barnabas Collins. Landau played Bela Lugosi in later years as a pathetic Hollywood has-been hooked on morphine.

But maybe “Dark Shadows” could break the curse of the vampires at showbiz awards, after all. Joan Bennett got nominated for her performance as a grande matriarch in the daytime TV soap version in 1968. She lost, but she got nominated!

Johnny Depp watched the highly addictive Gothic soap at home as a kid, “I was obsessed with Barnabas Collins,” he admits. “I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was five or six.”

Depp and Burton are busy now gearing up to unveil “Alice in Wonderland,” but Burton assures the L.A. Times that they’ll team up for a feature film version of “Dark Shadows” in the future.

“That’s the plan,” Burton says. “There was something very weird about that, it had the weirdest vibe to it. I’m sort of intrigued about that vibe.”

[From the Los Angeles Times]

Johnny is one of those actors who I really believe when they say they don?t care about awards. I think Johnny likes to be acknowledged by his peers, for sure, but generally he just seems too cool to even bother with a proper Oscar campaign. It?s kind of strange to think that one of the best actors working today doesn?t have an Oscar, though. I?m sure Johnny?s time will come!

Here?s Johnny with Marion Cotillard and Michael Mann at the Paris premiere of ‘Public Enemies’ on July 2nd. Images thanks to WENN.com .

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Fan gives Johnny Depp valuable piece of John Dillinger memorabilia
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Fan gives Johnny Depp valuable piece of John Dillinger memorabilia
This week’s National Enquirer has a sweet story about how a fan gifted a valuable piece of John Dillinger memorabilia to Johnny Depp. Johnny plays notorious Depression-era gangster Dillinger in the new film Public Enemies. While he was filming in Crown Point, Indiana, where Dillinger was locked up briefly in 1934, he supposedly got word that a collector had the original badge of the Sheriff who temporarily had Dillinger in custody. The way the Enquirer tells it, Depp asked to buy the badge for $10,000, but the owner said that it wasn’t for sale. Then, after Depp was just being himself and behaving graciously and generously with the locals, the guy decided to give him the badge for free just for being his normal, awesome self.

“Johnny desperately wanted a sheriff’s badge belonging to the person who locked up Dillinger in the ‘escape proof’ Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Ind. in 1934,” a source told The Enquirer.

“He offered the owner $10,000, but the man said he wouldn’t sell it at any price.”

All that changed when the owner heard how Depp stood in the rain to sign autographs and bought cases of soda at a local grocery to distribute to residents who watched him shoot the jailbreak scene at Crown Point.

Fans are “the only reason I’m here,” Depp said. “They’re keeping me alive. They’re keeping my kiddies fed, so they’re the boss as far as I’m concerned.”

After learning about Dillinger’s life while preparing for the movie, Depp decided that he really wanted the badge belonging to the late Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley. She was responsible for keeping Dillinger locked up in Indiana while he awaited trail for the murder of a Chicago policeman.

Dillinger spent only a few weeks in Holly’s custody - because while she napped at home one afternoon, he managed to bust out of her jail using a toy gun.

While making his bold escape, Dillinger locked up 12 sheriff’s deputies before fleeing in Holley’s brand-new V-8 Ford!

The man who owned Holley’s badge - an employee at Ford Motor Co. Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights, Ill - also had several other objects of Dillinger memorabilia.

“The guy didn’t want to make a big deal out of it,” said the source. “He just wanted Johnny to know how much he and the people of Crown Point appreciated his kindness. So he sent him the badge as a gift.

“Johnny was thrilled. He said he’d never forget the people of Crown Point, because they were some of the nicest people he’d ever met.”

[From the National Enquirer, print edition, July 13, 2009]

I don’t buy all of this, and think that if there was a badge exchanged the owner probably decided to gift it to Johnny Depp without needing to be convinced of his worthiness at all. That’s what I would do, but of course not everyone is as much of a star-struck fan as I am. It doesn’t take much to convert people, though, because all Johnny has to do is show up and do his thing. He’s super nice without any kind of artifice and you get the impression that he’s awed by his fame.

Johnny Depp is just about the only celebrity to whom I would hand away my most prized possessions, a look of wide-eyed wonder on my face and he gently brushes my hand to take it from me, all apologetic and smiling.

Depp is shown outside his hotel in Paris yesterday. Credit: ANG/Fame Pictures. He’s also shown at the Paris premiere of Public Enemies with Marion Cotillard, Michael Mann. Credit: WENN.com

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JUN
29
Johnny Depp loves to gossip in French
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Johnny Depp loves to gossip in French
Johnny Depp is lovely enough on his own. Give me Johnny just sitting there, being pretty and sexy, and I?m a happy girl. But give me Johnny Depp gossiping in French, and I need to cross my legs. So imagine Johnny?s Public Enemies co-stars? problem - especially for Marion Cotillard, who actually understood what and who Johnny was gossiping about.

Johnny admitted in a recent interview that he and Marion would speak French together on the set of Public Enemies. Johnny became fluent when he fell in love with a lovely French girl (Vanessa Paradis) and ran off with her to the French countryside to have babies and be wonderful. According to Cotillard, Johnny?s French is ?excellent? but his constant French gossip became an issue because of Cotillard?s difficult accent work for the film - Johnny was breaking her concentration. She basically had to beg Johnny to stop whispering French nothings into her ear. God, now I have to cross my legs again.

Johnny Depp gossiped about his ‘Public Enemies’ co-stars in French.

The 46-year-old actor has revealed he and French beauty Marion Cotillard would speak to each other in the European language so cast and crew members would not know what they were talking about.

He said: “We would sometimes speak French to each other on the set, especially when we didn’t want anyone else to know what we were saying!?

However, the 33-year-old actress quickly grew tired of speaking in her native language because she felt it was affecting her acting.

She said: “Johnny’s French is excellent. But I could not let myself lapse into speaking a lot of pure French with Johnny. I was working so hard to really perfect the accent of my character Billie Frechette, and that was not easy. She was of mixed heritage - both French and Native American - and supposedly had an accent that was quite different.”

Johnny - who lives in the South of France with his long-term partner Vanessa Paradis and their two children, 10-year-old Lily-Rose and Jack, seven - praised his co-star for her acting skills and can understand why his character was attracted to Billie.

He said: “Marion really worked hard on that accent, and I think the way she speaks in the film adds so much to the personality of the character she plays. You can see why Dillinger fell in love with her so easily.”

Although Johnny and Marion were happy to gossip off-screen, their co-star Christian Bale admits he was more reclusive.

He said: “I wish to not talk unless we’re doing the scene. I enjoy it that way. Johnny seemed happy to do it that way, too. So the answer is, no, we really didn’t get to know each other better between each take. So I guess I’ll have to wait and get to know Johnny Depp someday.”

[From My Park Mag]

I?m utterly ambivalent about Marion and Christian Bale, but I?ll see Public Enemies for Johnny. I?m kind of surprised with how much of the film?s promotional duties Johnny has taken on - it?s so unlike him. Is this an even better version of Johnny Depp, the man we already loved? The new Johnny Depp gossips in French and takes Vanity Fair reporters on rum-soaked yacht trips. Sigh. How is it that Johnny just keeps getting better and better?

Johnny Depp is shown out in NY at Da Silvano restaurant on 6/27/09. Credit: ANDERSON/VILA/Bauergriffinonline.

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Celebrity Quote Of The Day: Johnny Depp
Added 14 years agoSource: Feed Me Gossip
Celebrity Quote Of The Day: Johnny Depp
“I can’t think of myself in terms of celebrity. It’s just too weird. If the choice is between being gawked at and sitting in a chair in a dark room, I prefer the dark room.” - Johnny Depp

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26
Johnny Depp on not watching his films: 'I stay as far away as I can'
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Johnny Depp on not watching his films: 'I stay as far away as I can'
This interview is cut a little short but is the only one I could find. Please comment with the full or two part video if you find it

Swoon-inducing Johnny Depp and his deep, smooth voice were on the Late Show last night. Depp looked just a little nervous and didn’t talk a lot, but he was incredibly gracious and funny and his quiet nature just added to his appeal.

Depp first talked about his children, Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, 7. The 46 year-old superstar is notoriously guarded about his family life, but he revealed a little. Letterman reminded him that last time he was on the show he compared taking care of his children to watching a drunk.

On his kids

“They’re out of the tiny drunk phase now,” Depp joked. “I’m in it.”

“They’ve entered the age of technology now. It’s texting and Playstation. That sort of thing.”

“I see little boys lining up to date my daughter, and I fear for them.”

Letterman then brought up Depp’s new film on notorious criminals in the Great Depression Era, Public Enemies, in which he plays John Dillinger.

On whether he’s seen Public Enemies

“No, I’ve not [seen the movie]. Not just yet.

“In a way, once my job is done on the film, it’s really none of my business. [laughs]”

Letterman asked “So you deliberately don’t look at the finished product?”

“Oh yeah, I stay as far away as I possibly can,” he explained. “If I can, I try to stay in as profound a state of ignorance as possible.”

“Well, you’ve come to the right place,” Letterman quipped.

Letterman asked if Depp’s children have seen his movies and he said “actually, my kids have seen more of my films than I have.”

Letterman kept pressing the issue “Aren’t you a little curious to just get a glimpse of yourself.”

“Not remotely. Truly, honestly.”

This would easily explain Depp’s willingness to continue churning out confusing and bloated Pirates sequels. I can’t fault the guy, though, when he just oozes reticent charm and plays the hell out of every character. Depp makes every movie worth watching.

On getting along with his French neighbors

Letterman asked Depp if he spoke French, and he said “a bit more than before.”

“What is your life like with your fellow French speaking residents?”

“It depends. There’s a little wine. Sometimes there’s some cheese.”

On his 45 acre Island in the Bahamas

“I go to the Bahamas. We have a little place in the Bahamas.”

Dave asked, “Do you have buddies?”

“Yeah, I have a few buddies.”

“Are they actors as well?”

“No, I know a couple of actors. A couple of nice ones.”

Letterman showed a photo of Depp’s 45 acre island in the Bahamas, “Little Hall’s Pond Cay,” saying “nice going.”

Depp explained, “It’s the one place we can take the kiddies to the beach without a bunch of lenses coming out.”

After the break Letterman showed photos of Depp’s 155 foot boat that he uses to visit his private island, which is only reachable by boat or sea plane. Depp said he doesn’t fish but does enjoy snorkeling, and recounted a kind of scary encounter with a barracuda.

This interview totally made my day after some very sad news. I don’t know what it is about this guy, but whenever I see Depp talk I get butterflies in my stomach, grin like a fool, and feel all giddy. It’s not what he says, but how he says it, like someone on a first date who is confident but still nervous about making a good impression.

Public Enemies opens on July 1.

Here are photos of Depp out in NY last night and outside the Late Show. Look at how those fangirls are so thrilled to see him! Credit: WENN.com and Fame Pictures.

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JUN
24
Johnny Depp gives Chicago waiter $4,000 tip
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Johnny Depp gives Chicago waiter $4,000 tip
In case we didn’t have enough reasons to love Johnny Depp, here’s one more. A waiter at a high end Chicago steakhouse who has served Depp several times says that he’s always low-key, friendly and extremely generous. The last time he waited on Depp, in a party that included his Public Enemies co-star Marion Cotillard and the director Michael Mann, Depp left him a whopping $4,000 tip. They were drinking $500 bottles of wine, but that still sounds like way more than 20%.

The waiter who received a $4000 tip from Johnny Depp has told RadarOnline.com about his night with the superstar!

Mohammed A . Sekhani — a veteran waiter at Chicago’s legendary steakhouse Gibsons — told RadarOnline.com: ?Johnny and his party arrived just after 11.30pm at the restaurant and requested a private room. He had visited our restaurant several times before while he was filming Public Enemies and he promised me that he would return after the premiere.”

Sekhani says Depp and his party ordered appetizers like shrimp cocktails while they prepared his favorite dish Clams Casino ? which is clams baked with garlic, pepper and cheese.

Said Sekhani : ?He also ordered some $500 bottles of Italian wine and he was in good spirits throughout the evening chatting with Mr Mann and Miss Cotillard. I have worked with a lot of stars like Sean Connery and Robert De Niro but Johnny Depp is my favorite. He is a very soft spoken guy who is very charming and sweet ? when I wait for him he doesn?t like to be too fussed over and is not in any way demanding. ”

It’s not the first time Sekhani has waited on Depp. ?Because he had visited us before he calls me ?Mo? and I know exactly the way he likes to be treated. He may be one of the most famous actors in the world but he is a very ?humble guy? and a really cool dude. Obviously, I was delighted with his tip but he has always been very generous every time that he has visited us here at Gibsons.

When the party left around 2.30am he smiled and told me that he would return ? they were a great group of people.?

[From Radar Online]

Radar is the first outlet with this story, and it’s not like Depp told anyone that he tipped that much - the waiter blabbed about it. This is really just an excuse to post these photos from the LA premiere of Public Enemies last night. Depp has gained a little weight for his role in the film The Rum Diary and he looks incredible as always. I even like his greasy-look hair and almost no one looks dignified with oily hair, but somehow Depp pulls it off. Also shown at the premiere are Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale, and LeeLee Sobieski.

Public Enemies is out in the US on July 1. Here’s the trailer:

Photo credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

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Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
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Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
If you’ve ever wondered what Carrot Top would look like in Kabuki makeup, all your dreams just came true. Pervert.

First pictures of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, HELENA BONHAM CARTER as the Queen of Hearts, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland:

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JUN
22
First picture of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
First picture of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
USA Today has the first photos of the characters in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, due out March, 2010, and they look fantastic. Johnny Depp wears a red curly wig, goofy expression and top hat as the Mad Hatter while HELENA BONHAM CARTER is a haughty, cruel Red Queen of Hearts. Anne Hathaway plays The White Queen in a long blonde wig and full red lips. USA Today also has scrollable large pictures of the concept art from the film, but no photos of the young woman who plays Alice, a 19 year-old Australian actress, Mia Wasikowska, from HBO’s In Treatment:

You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton.

Those who have grown curiouser and curiouser about what the offbeat reinventor of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory might conjure up in his version of Alice in Wonderland can feast their eyes on this array of concept art and publicity images, due to hang in movie theaters this week to promote the March 5, 2010, release.

“It has been Burton-ized” is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director’s vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Many elements are familiar, from the enigmatic Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) to the fierce Jabberwock (Christopher Lee). But none has been presented in this sort of visually surreal fashion.

“We finished shooting in December after only 40 days,” Zanuck says. Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D.

The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn’t remember.

Among those who welcome her back is the Mad Hatter, a part tailor-made for Johnny Depp as he collaborates with Burton for the seventh time. “This character is off his rocker,” Zanuck says.

Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 19, best known for HBO’s In Treatment, has the coveted title role. “There is something real, honest and sincere about her,” Zanuck says. “She’s not a typical Hollywood starlet.”

There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, whose favorite retort is “Off with their heads,” has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle it. “The book itself is pretty dark,” he notes. “This is for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago.”

[From USA Today]

I thought the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake fell a little flat, but Sweeney Todd was incredible, due in no small part to the excellent storyline that Burton was working with. It was too gory for my taste though. I love that the producer assures us that it’s appropriate for little kids and won’t be too violent or scary. This movie is likely to be a hit across the board.

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Johnny Depp is Vanity Fair's July cover, intimate interview excerpt
Added 14 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Johnny Depp is Vanity Fair's July cover, intimate interview excerpt
This is why I love the beginning of the month - Vanity Fair always releases its cover and the whole or partial cover interview. Last month, we got Jessica Simpson with a cover reference to ?mom jeans?. This month, we get Johnny Depp, with no references to any of the following: mom jeans, weight gain, Tony Romo or Pervert Joe Simpson. That alone makes it a win, but it seems Johnny has gone and answered our prayers. He?s letting us into his private Bahamian island, called Little Hall?s Pond Cay. He?s talking about Elizabeth Taylor (?an astonishingly great broad?), Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder (?That’s the best I’ve ever seen Cruise?) and Chicago (?I loved looking out the car window at all those incredible neighborhoods and architecture?) amongst other topics. Vanity Fair hasn?t released the whole interview, so this is just a press release and excerpt from HuffPo:

Johnny Depp shows Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley around his 45-acre private Bahamian island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay, and tells Brinkley that the island “is my decompression. It’s my way of trying to return to normalcy…. Escapism is survival to me.”

When Brinkley asks Depp if there is any Hollywood icon he still hopes to spend time with, he says, “I already met her. Elizabeth Taylor.” Depp once attended dinner with Taylor and found her to be “the best old-school dame I’ve ever met. A regular, wonderful person. Billy Bob Thornton and Steve Martin were also there. Boy, did I take to her. For dinner she ordered liver and onions and just smothered them with salt. I admired that. She’s an astonishingly great broad.”

Little Hall’s Pond has six different beaches–named after Depp’s partner, Vanessa Paradis, and their children, Lily Rose and Jack, as well as his mentors Hunter S. Thompson and Marlon Brando–each with a personality and cove of its own, and one patch of water deemed “Heath’s Place” after the late actor Heath Ledger. There are several small residences, all solar-powered, and transportation consists of a fleet of green golf carts.

“I don’t think I’d ever seen any place so pure and beautiful,” Depp tells Brinkley of the island. “You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It’s instant freedom. And that rare beast–simplicity–can be had. And a little morsel of anonymity…. Whenever I was getting frustrated about being ‘novelty boy’ and making movies, I told myself, Calm down. I can come down here and disappear. I spent the Christmas season here with Vanessa and the kids. You can feed hot dogs to the nurse sharks in the Exumas–but it’s best to not swim when doing it.”

Depp spent much of the last year in Chicago filming Public Enemies, and tells Brinkley that it has become his favorite American city. “Everybody [in Chicago] treated me normal. They’d say, ‘Hey, Johnny,’ then left me alone…. I visited the Art Institute and the Chicago Music Exchange. I loved looking out the car window at all those incredible neighborhoods and architecture.”

Depp laments the political correctness of modern Hollywood, telling Brinkley he pines for the old iconoclasts: “Where is our generation of Dean Martins and Frank Sinatras? And the Georgie Jessels and Walter Brennans? I want Tiny Tim and Bix Beiderbecke back.”

Of Tom Cruise’s performance as studio head Les Grossman in last summer’s Tropic Thunder, Depp says, “That’s the best I’ve ever seen Cruise.” When asked if Cruise’s portrayal reminds Depp of any Hollywood executives, he says, “All of them.”

Whenever Depp gets bored or can’t sleep, he paints. “When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do,” he says. “I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. I painted Hunter a couple of times. Keith Richards. What I love to do is paint people’s faces, y’know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what’s going on behind their eyes.”

Depp talks about his two late mentors, Marlon Brando and Hunter S. Thompson, each of whom imparted his share of wisdom. He recalls a conversation he had with Brando in 1994, when he was poised to purchase Little Hall’s Pond, but instead of expressing outright enthusiasm, Brando–who once lived on the French Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa–asked a series of pragmatic questions: “What’s the elevation? How protected are you?” Brando, according to Depp, was being sensible, focused, and paternal. “With hurricanes and all, he just didn’t want me to make a mistake.”

Depp says what he misses about Thompson “isn’t the Too Much Fun Club stuff. It was his steady advice. His radar detector was spot-on. He knew instantly if he didn’t like somebody.” Depp says the beach he named after Hunter on his island is “the most savage and exposed of all the beaches. Gonzo Beach is pure Hunter.”

Talking to Brinkley about his future on the island, Depp says: “Nobody is going to ever ruin the Land and Sea Park. It’s like a rare gem, a diamond. I look forward to my kids growing up on the island, spending months out of the year here … learning about sea life and how to protect sea life … and their kids growing up here, and so on…. Theoretically, this place can add years to your life.” Then he quotes the old adage: “Money doesn’t buy you happiness. But it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”

The July issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on June 3 and nationally on June 9.

[From Vanity Fair via The Huffington Post]

Jesus, I wish I were friends with Johnny Depp. I mean, of course he?s hot and I?d like to see him naked and all of that, but he just seems so cool, so intelligent and interesting. I?d love to be his friend, or just have a conversation with him. I love that he names places on the island after his family and friends. Gonzo Beach, Heath?s Place, beaches named after Vanessa and his kids. How lovely. My only complaint is that Johnny doesn?t seem to acknowledge that Hollywood does have a few of those old-school, glamorous Hollywood throw-backs. People like George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt… even if you don?t really like them, they are very, very glamorous, and throw-backs to a different era. Other than that, I have no complaints. I?m just going to suck up this interview like heroin, it?s so good.

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