Johnny Depp - David Letterman Full Interview (June 2013)

all right maybe gentlemen our first guest tonight is a three-time Academy Award nominated actor how about that pretty good pretty good and if you if you want some real non robot fun at the movies this summer non zombie fun at the movies this summer you should go see The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp as Tonto it opens July 3rd ladies gentlemen the one the only Johnny Depp fair we go I all I really want to talk about it's Tonto but first of all have you had your birthday you're getting ready to have your birthday how old are you I've had my birthday and you are they tell me I'm 50 50 years old well you look great you look youthful and more importantly you look cool thank you very much and being 50 supposed to be a landmark but having gone through that myself it doesn't really mean anything doesn't mean anything to you absolutely nothing yeah no it's just another decade gone by the only maybe the thing that one can look forward to when you reach 50 is a future that's slightly more irresponsible more irresponsible irresponsible people will allow you that because you're older well they yeah they they they accommodate at times you know you didn't know one say yeah one day I'll be able to wear my pants up to here well and it's okay well one day what about today it'll start now excuse me a minute now of other cultures Revere old age I'm not sure that applies here in the United States you've been to Miami recently yeah everybody my age has a story about Oh mom what am I gonna do my dad what are we gonna do with dad and nobody really wants that project it's sort of sad is the garage keeping drunk yeah I would say it keeps the old folks drunk even loaded now you talk about you talk about being more irresponsible as your growler was there time in your life your life when you were was just crazily irresponsible yeah when I was at when I was a little younger because I'm incredibly responsible now but when you say irresponsible police involved at times yeah I did meet a few policemen here and there and I uh I was given a tour of custody sweets and such because let's get he sleeps now do you one of my business did you mind if I ask what the infraction was the violation one was I made a gaggle of paparazzi walk backwards down a London Street with a plank of wood in my hand oh my god Paul did you hear this I'm shocked at Joni oh listen this is one of you wouldn't this is a wonderful do that you took after him like a two before and backed him off down an alley yeah it was more like a yeah 4x4 I found it though I didn't I wasn't that worried what were you charged with for the love of God um assault attempted as attempted assault assault yeah various you know infractions that I didn't quite understand I know this is irresponsible of me but nice going haven't you done it had to be taken to take the law in your own somebody had to do it that does suck a little bit about the kitties I remember years ago before I had my son you described I think one of your kids at the time I think it was about three years old as like living with a drunk yeah have they gone beyond the the drunken behavior stage they've gone beyond the tiny drunk stage and they and they've entered into a whole new arena my boy Jack is 11 and there is you know just simple low-key solid solid you know one word text yep you know same you know I got it and that's the boy and then my girl my daughter lily-rose is now 14 and yeah 14 and go beyond the age difference is there a behavioral difference well I mean it at our very base I think men are relatively I mean we're simpletons really honey we really are and and and and girls are infinitely more complicated and brilliant and and you know they know how to maneuver and and you know sort of manipulate dad to the umpteenth degree are you having said that are you in a good space now with you with your daughter things good now things are wonderful yeah no perfect she's surprises along the way though you know you just do the things you're you know the father fears some greasy little horror showing up at your door some greasy little horror showing up yeah yeah that's right we'll be right back your with Johnny Depp ladies gentlemen ladies gentlemen this movie I've been awaiting this movie I think I saw a trailer for it maybe a year ago ten months or something like that probably before we finished shooting yeah exactly right I think so yeah take a long time to film this yeah about six six months or so little oh my gosh that's a lot of work as it was a long time now I have many questions to ask you about the film can I ask them please when a person writes a script like this and it comes time for action-adventure it on the screen it looks complicated and impossible not just to to shoot and create but how is it written in the script does it does it just does it just say okay now fill in some time here with action-adventure or is it is it carefully written out on the script carefully written out in the script so somebody has to imagine it write it down and then the director has to do it in data and other those those enormous action sequences in the film we dreamt up by Gore Verbinski and the writer Justin Haythe it's crazy stuff yeah and and and and here's another question for you I think I was on that train or near that train that some of the movie takes place in do you reckon yeah it was it was at in Colorado - that would train exist in Colorado um it didn't exist in Colorado actually yeah but it but most of it was it was done in um in New Mexico and in a great great heat what's the the river did that really exist or was that computer a computer River another river was noble you know where was that River that was somewhere between Colorado New Mexico Arizona somewhere in there I've lost track if it looked like a river I know what was it the wasn't the Animas River I really don't know however it was wonderful thanks a lot Tonto okay so nail granny I don't know might have been the real grip and and what about the the trestle that comes down that never existed or did it exist or should I have not said that I don't know I'm not - there's there's two things that I have a problem with one is I never read screen direction which is the stuff that tells you what to do well that went out there how can that be possible well I'd rather not know what they want me to do I'd rather just figure something out so you're just you're kind of just guessing at what they want it's just no I'm just sort of winging it but I want it's worked so far why do but now let's let's talk about them as beloved as The Lone Ranger is there was always something not right about the part of Tonto how he was portrayed this has been rectified in in this this movie and documented we saw the character of Tonto tell us about what went into the creation of that character with regard to Native Americans well I mean ever since I was a kid I mean I was very little kid watching you know the The Lone Ranger series on TV and I always had a fascination with the series and loved Jay Silverheels loved this years but but I was always sort of perturbed somehow by the fact that Tonto was Tonto was thought of as the sidekick it just never kind of the errand guy really errand boy yeah it just didn't sit well you know and so it's been something that I've been felt very passionate about for a long time the idea that Native Americans have been misrepresented or horribly throughout the history of cinema and television so I thought it was a great opportunity to to flip that cliche on its head and and bring the the respect in the and back to the these people these dignified people and and when you created the character did you then seek guidance or input or approval from Native Americans did you show them what you were up to almost assuredly you know I went to I mean I had a very very close relationship with the Comanche nation and the Navajo allowed us into their world as well and yet learned quite a lot and they were very very helpful and pleased with this a depiction of Tonto in the film yeah crows so far yeah I mean yeah there's always gonna be you know naysayers and this and that but which I expect but I mean the thing is I it was approached with only good intentions and if you know if if there's 15 kids 20 kids on a reservation somewhere who can watch this film and walk away feeling proud of their heritage proud of their culture and and want to bring you want to keep their language alive their culture alive if they get that then I feel that my job is done you have you spent time on a reservation I have on several yeah it's it I have just briefly yeah I I can't claim anything other than just briefly but it is quite an eye-opener it is and and just even as a glimpse the perspective is just like looking through a telescope and everything sort of widens out and you think oh my well the strange thing is that when you visit these places you know where essentially what you're seeing is the repercussions of what happens one hundred two hundred and more years ago a people that have been you know attempted to be beaten down being you door to feel lesser than and that's what I want these kids to know what is what do they say anthropologically about how long people were in North America on North America before white men came here was it 20,000 years was it longer than that um I've no idea yeah however I mean even it was a year I mean it was it was yeah we super Xindi yeah the high numbers for sure Oh Columbus Columbus came and made an enormous mistake thought he'd hit India yeah I decided to call the people Indians yeah that's the whole thing right there they didn't call themselves Indians did they know they're the human beings yes that's right what but I'm right in the the portrayal of Tonto and his life sort of mirrors that of the existence of the Native Americans doesn't mos def exploited and and then crushed by the white man indeed damaged I mean it you know a little boy damaged by by white man's greed yeah now having said this and I'm happy we could talk about it the movie is wildly entertaining thank you uh and and what I was talking about in the end all of a sudden you appear on a ladder you know what I mean on that I do remember the latter bit yeah and yeah and I don't know speeding train uh is any of that real well we were on speeding train speeding trains absolutely strapped to yeah strapped to the top of a train car that was doing about no no no 50 or 60 miles but what a ladder that's yeah also a lot of trees you know yeah the only other Street lot of ducking yes and the the scenery is spectacular Monument Valley is the backdrop for a lot of this film yeah yeah Monument Valley Canyon de Chelly which is just a novel and we were welcomed into and it's just astonishing yes well it's imeem it's it's everything you want and it's gonna be an enormous hit let's take a look at a clip here this is The Lone Ranger but and I don't want to take anything away from the Lone Ranger but it really ought to be called Tonto could you could you could you have done that could you demanded well you know you're a guy knows his way around a craft to the table I don't know what that I don't know what that dudes no no I'm drunk I've made I've made a lot of macrame sings make plates let's see what is the clip here Johnny I have no idea no for God's sake I have no you're saying to yourself that's not Johnny Depp but it's it's a clip from the film you see it the July 3rd and and what against the the celebration of America is independent and but this is a great reminder of things that came before and mistakes that have been made but also wildly entertaining have we showed the clip am I in it let's take that's the kind of snow I want to do that's right that's it now just imagine that on the big screen big specially EXFO fat kitten shaft there's no right let's try it again here is the Lone Ranger how did that happen a lot of that yeah did you get booked and pulled off by the chain like that I was yanked off yes I was I was out we're talking about something else Johnny settle down for God's sakes can you keep your mind on the movie every time I turn around yeah before I know it's it's a gun it's a lot of fun and that's all right partner this will be so enormous how does one know that one has everything one needs on film to make sense of this movie how do you know after all of this I mean it's very intricate shooting it is I mean you know what you do you know you go to work and you do your day which could be anywhere from a 14 to 16 hour day and then you reel so you're working on the train sequence the action sequence for example and you realize that you know you take about three weeks of those 14 to 16 hour days and that comprises about 17 seconds of screen time Wow Wow just in terms of the difficulty of the stunts and somebody keeps track of everything that you film so it's not like only God we need a shot of him putting on his shoes you that doesn't happen exactly we're like the birds backwards get the fur apart now there Bert was backwards you know the bird wasn't back rest of you had the bird on backwards oh he didn't have the bird on well do me a favor go see this and it'd mean a lot to Johnny as well it's the Lone Ranger real-life third ladies you

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Keywords: Johnny Depp, Johnny, Depp, The Lone Ranger, David Letterman, The Late Show, NYC, June 25 2013, June, 2013, Letterman

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Length: 18min 9sec (1089 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2013