Johnny Depp is still out promoting his latest movie, Black Mass, and that included a Q&A after an AFI screening, where he had a few things to say about his first time out as Jack Sparrow, including his fears that he was screwing it up as Jack Sparrow and was going to get fired,
The Guardian reports him as saying, “It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film! What is that thing? Is it drunk, is it gay?”
He then met on of the top studio brass who asked him, “‘What the fuck are you doing?’”
Depp then recounted, “When they asked if it was gay, I said: ‘Didn’t you know all my characters are gay?’”
To be honest with most actors it would seem like a joke, but many of Depp’s characters have been interpreted as being somewhere on the queer spectrum, from Willy Wonka to Tonto, so perhaps he’s not kidding at all.
It’s not the first time Depp has told the tale, but it is a good one.
A few days ago the first trailer for the sequel, Alice Through The Looking Glass arrived, which has now been followed by these rather cool pics, which show us four returning characters alongside Sacha Baron Cohen’s villain new character, Time.
Even Disney was surprised when Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland made over a billion dollars at the box office, but it ensured a sequel quickly went into pre-production. Although its taken longer than originally planned, Alice Through The Looking Glass is now on its way, and we have the first trailer to prove it.
While there has been a huge amount of talk about adapting Neil Gaiman’s books and stories for the screen, relatively few have actually been made, with the exception of the likes of Coraline. Now another of his children’s books is up for adaption, Fortunately the Milk.
Orlando Bloom may not have appeared in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, On Stranger Tides, but at Disney’s D23 Expo he made an appearance to confirm he’ll be back for the fifth adventure, Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Even Disney was surprised when its Tim Burton directed, live-action version of Alice In Wonderland broke a billion dollars at the worldwide box office. The studio quickly started thinking about a sequel, but it’s only now that it’s moving towards release – with Muppet Movie helmer James Bobin stepping in for Burton.
Three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Finding Neverland,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films) stars as notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in the drama “Black Mass,” directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”).
Synopsis: Black Mass stars Oscar® nominee Johnny Depp (“Public Enemies”, “Donnie Brasco”, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films) as Whitey Bulger and Joel Edgerton (“The Great Gatsby,” “Zero Dark Thirty”) as FBI Agent John Connolly. Filming began in Boston under the direction of Scott Cooper (“Out of the Furnace,” “Crazy Heart”).
Johnny Depp is currently back in the world of Jack Sparrow on the set of the new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie, but he’s got something rather different coming up, where he stars in the biopic of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger. He certainly looks rather different though, with receding hairline, coloured contacts and facial prosthetics.