Fame isn’t straightforward for everybody.
Johnny Depp admitted in a brand new documentary about Tim Burton that he was “completely freaked out” by the media consideration he acquired as a teen heartthrob early in his profession.
“Paparazzi would take pictures of me. People would whisper and point their finger and stuff,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor, 61, recalled, per Individuals.
“I felt like sort of this raw nerve on display,” he added.
Depp rose to fame as a teen idol on the TV sequence “21 Jump Street,” earlier than he broke by means of in movie due to a number of collaborations with Burton, 66.
In archival footage from Tara Wooden’s four-part docuseries, Burton described Depp as “very much not” the intercourse image that he was portrayed as within the media on the time.
Later within the doc, Depp spoke concerning the bond he shaped with Burton when he was forged in 1990’s “Edward Scissorhands.”
“What I noticed the first time we met was he wasn’t saying very many words,” Depp stated. “[Burton] would begin a sentence and I would go ‘Oh yeah,’ and then we would talk about Boris Karloff or something. We related on a lot of levels.”
Depp additionally stated that he beat out Tom Cruise and others actors for the lead position within the movie, a job he didn’t suppose he’d get.
“After about three-and-a-half hours of a really great yak with the guy [Burton], I still thought, ‘No chance, man. No chance,’ ” the Oscar nominee recalled.
Talking extra about his expertise doing “Edward Scissorhands,” Depp stated, “I was cast in the film but I was stepping into a kind of family that I hadn’t been totally brought into yet. I was absolutely convinced that I was blowing it. Tim had rehearsed everyone else in the cast. Everyone. Not me. He didn’t rehearse me. He was excluding me from the cast and crew, isolating me.”
Depp stated that ultimately he realized Burton needed him to expertise the loneliness that his character offers with. Nonetheless, he was nonetheless fearful through the audition course of.
“It was scary. I was uber paranoid,” he recalled. “Why is [Burton] not rehearsing me? Maybe he trusts me. No he doesn’t. He doesn’t trust you, what are you nuts? He’s going to cast someone else, man.”
Depp and Burton have additionally labored collectively on 1994’s “Ed Wood,” 1999’s “Sleepy Hallow,” 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” 2007’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland” and extra.
Depp has carried out much less appearing work in recent times following his notorious 2022 defamation case in opposition to his ex-wife, Amber Heard, that led to his favor.
His first film after the trial was “Jeanne du Barry,” which premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition in 2023. He additionally directed a 2024 biographic movie about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
