Johnny Depp, who stars in the upcoming new film The Tourist with Angelina Jolie, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine (for the second year in a row). Here is our first look at Johnny‘s new VF cover and some excerpts from his coverstory interview: [...]
Johnny Depp, who stars in the upcoming new film The Tourist with Angelina Jolie, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Vanity Fair magazine (for the second year in a row). Here is our first look at Johnny‘s new VF cover and some excerpts from his coverstory interview:
Angelina Jolie’s latest big fan? Johnny Depp. “Meeting her and getting to know her was a real pleasant surprise,” the actor, 47, who stars with Jolie in the upcoming film The Tourist, tells rocker Patty Smith in an interview for Vanity Fair. “You don’t know what she might be like – if she has any sense of humor at all. I was so pleased to find that she is incredibly normal,” he added, “and has a wonderfully kind of dark, perverse sense of humor.” In fact, Depp, a three-time Oscar nominee, compares Oscar winner Jolie, 35, to another Hollywood leading lady – one from an earlier generation. “I’ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years,” Depp says. “You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she’s hilarious. Angie’s got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach.” Depp says he also feels a measure of sympathy for Jolie and her family, who deal with the harshest glare of fame. “Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and her husband, Brad [Pitt] … all their kids,” he says. “There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.” The actor also touches on a number of other subjects, including Disney executives’ shocked reaction to his Jack Sparrow performance. “I think it was Michael Eisner … who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie,’ ” says Depp, who also talks about his early dreams of being a rock star. “I was a guitarist, and that’s what I wanted to do.” And he reveals what could be an interesting future project. “[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 … And I would like to. I’d really, really like to.”
While I am looking forward to seeing the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, On Stranger Tides, I’m not the least bit interested in seeing The Tourist. I had no idea that Johnny had only first met Angelina when they filmed this movie together but not even the pairing of two of the most high-paid actors in the world is enough to pique my interest. From all the preview material I’ve seen, the movie looks completely uninteresting to me. Still, I am a fan of Depp himself so … this Vanity Fair interview is deffo worth a read. After the jump, check out one photo from Johnny‘s VF photospread to see what the mag has in store for Johnny fans …
This is an issue of VF that I will deffo be picking up and who knows, maybe the interview will change my mind but … I’m thinkin’ I’m gonna take a pass on seeing The Tourist when it opens in theaters next month.
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