johnny depp handsome fascinating and so
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Johnny Depp - handsome, fascinating and so skilled
Johnny Depp is one of the greatest actors ever. But he could have been
a rockstar too:
Depp's mother bought him a guitar when he was twelve, and he began
playing in garage bands. His first band was in honor of his girlfriend
Meredith. One year after his parents divorced, he dropped out of high
school to become a rock musician. (As he explained once on Inside the
Actors Studio, he attempted to go back two weeks later, but the
principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician, which Depp
said was "really sweet.")
He played with a band named "The Kids" which enjoyed modest local
success. The band members set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit
of a record deal, changing their name to "Six Gun Method."
Depp's marriage caused friction between the band members, and the
group split before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently
collaborated with the band Rock City Angels and co-wrote the song
"Mary", which appeared on their debut for Geffen Records, "Young Man's
Blues".
But it is from all great filmrolls he is worldfamous:
Johnny Depp's first major role was in the 1984 horror film A Nightmare
on Elm Street, playing Nancy's boyfriend Glen, and one of Freddy's
victims. In 1986, he also appeared in a secondary role as a Vietnamese
speaking private in Oliver Stone's Platoon. Depp left his teen idol
image in 1990, after playing the quirky title role in the Tim Burton
film, Edward Scissorhands. The film's success began a long association
with Burton, as Depp starred in several of his films, including Ed
Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(2005) and Corpse Bride (2005). Depp, an avid fan and long-time friend
of writer Hunter S. Thompson, played a version of Thompson (named
Raoul Duke) in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on the
writer's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp also
accompanied Thompson as his road manager on one of the author's last
book tours.
In 2006, Depp contributed a touching and personal foreword to GONZO by
Hunter S. Thompson, a posthumous visual biography of the writer's
legacy published by ammobooks.com. A close friend of Thompson's, Depp
paid for most of Thompson's memorial event, complete with fireworks
and the shooting of Thompson's ashes by a cannon, in Aspen, Colorado,
where Thompson lived.
Depp's film characters have been described by the press as "iconic
loners," and Depp has noted that this period of his career was full of
"studio defined failures" and films that were "box office poison,"
stating that he believes film studios never "understood" the films he
appeared in and did not know how to market them properly. Depp has
also said that he specifically chose to appear in films that he found
personally interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at
the box office.
Depp's status as a major star was solidified with the success of the
2003 Walt Disney Pictures film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of
the Black Pearl, for which his lead performance as the suave pirate
Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. The performance was initially
received negatively by the studio bosses who saw the film, but the
character became popular with the movie-going public; in 2006, Depp's
co-star from the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, Bill Nighy,
described the role as probably being "one of the most popular
performances of recent times."
The film's director, Gore Verbinski, has said that Depp's Jack Sparrow
character closely resembles Depp's own personality, although Depp
himself said that he modelled the character after Rolling Stones
guitarist Keith Richards.
Depp, who has noted that he was "surprised" and "touched" at the
positive reception given to the film, was nominated for an Academy
Award for the role. In 2004, he was again nominated for a Best Actor
Oscar, this time for playing Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film
Finding Neverland. Depp next starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 film
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was a major success at the
box office.
Depp returned to the character of Jack Sparrow for the sequel Pirates
of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which opened on July 7, 2006 and
grossed $135.5 million in the first three days of its U.S. release,
breaking a box office record in reaching the highest weekend tally
ever.[15] The next sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean named At World's
End was released May 24, 2007; Depp has mentioned his attachment to
his Captain Jack Sparrow character, specifying that Sparrow is
"definitely a big part of me," and expressing his desire to portray
the character in further sequels. Depp voiced Sparrow in the video
game, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.
Depp and Gore Verbinski are executive producers of the album "Rogues
Gallery, Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys".
It has been confirmed that he will portray Paul Kemp, the main
character in a film version of writer Hunter S. Thompson's book, The
Rum Diary. Johnny Depp will next play the title role of Sweeney Todd
in Tim Burton's film adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd.[18]
Depp's production company has picked up the rights to the story of
poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Here is a fan homepage about Johnny Depp.
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Johnny Depp and MTV.
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