Johnny Depp is featured in the January 2011 issue of Vanity Fair.
In the issue Johnny talks with Patti Smith about Disney execs being hesitant casting him as Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films:
“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.”
He also talks about how 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.”
He talks his mentor the late Marlon Brando and his Shakespearean advice:
“[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**king 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.”
Read more from Johnny’s interview at VanityFair.com.
Johnny is currently starring alongside Angelina Jolie in The Tourist releasing December 10.
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