The Tragic Story Of Johnny Depp | Biography Part 1 (Life, scandals, career)

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This actor is a chameleon and a  recognized Hollywood sex symbol.   Films with his participation are non-standard  and eccentric, and his roles became cult.   He is textured, but at the same  time plastic in his images.   This is Johnny Depp. What role did drugs play in his life?   Which woman made him trash a  hotel room after their breakup?   And what annoyed him about Leonardo DiCaprio? Today on the Biographer channel we will talk   about the childhood and the formation of the  personality of the talented actor, what traumas   he went through and why he was under arrest. First, click on the subscribe button and the bell   to find out secret facts from the biographies of  your favorite celebrities. Subscribe, sit back,   and let’s start. CHILDHOOD   John Christopher Depp II, better known  to us as Johnny Depp, was born on June 9,   1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was the youngest child in the family:   Depp had two older sisters, Debbie and  Christy, and an older brother, Daniel.   Johnny's childhood can hardly be called cloudless.  His father, the full namesake of his son,   was a civil engineer. He worked hard, drank  frequently, and had the pleasure of beating   his wife and children. His Mom - Elizabeth Sue  Wells, worked as a waitress from the age of 14,   mostly in a roadside cafe. The profession  and early growing up left their mark.   In the interview with Rolling Stone, Depp talked  about his mother's abusive and eccentric behavior,   as well as their broken  relationship in adulthood.   “Yeah, there were irrational beatings …  Maybe it’s an ashtray coming your way. Maybe   you’re gonna get clunked with the phone.” Depp mostly remembers his mother returning home   after working two shifts; he rubbed her  legs while she counted coins from the tip.   Although he idolized his mother, he was not  blind to her erratic behavior and meanness.   He told Rolling Stone magazine  what he said at her funeral:   “My mom was maybe the meanest human  being I have ever met in my life.”   It’s clear that all conditions in which Johnny  grew up influenced him and his future path.   The only person with whom the future actor  had a close relationship was his paternal   grandfather Jim. He affectionately called  him "Paw Paw". While he was still very young,   Johnny remembered picking tobacco in the fields  with him and listening to his stories.   He spent all his childhood  with him, and when he died,   the 9-year-old boy went through a real crisis,  which was reflected in his behavior.   Another factor was the constant change of  residence. The family often moved, because,   according to the actor, his parents did not  like to fix up and clean up their apartments.   It got to the point that one day the family  moved to a new house at the end of the street.   By the age of 15, young Depp had changed  several cities and even houses in the same city,   moving in total, according to his words, about 40  times. When his father was offered a higher salary   in Florida, their family moved there, leaving  all of Johnny's childhood friends in Kentucky.   The lack of constancy and stability, the loss  of a loved one led to the fact that he began to   constantly swear with his parents, at the age of  12 he began to smoke and get involved in alcohol.   And a year later he started a sexual relationship  with a girl a few years older than him.   When Johnny celebrated his 15th birthday, his  parents divorced. This completely unsettled him,   despite the fact that, as he said, he  hated both parents. He started to take   "every drug known to man". Among them, according  to the actor himself, were cocaine, ecstasy,   LSD, psychedelic mushrooms and pot. “Mom asked me to give her psychotropic   drugs. I tried one pill furtively and realized  that this is the only way to soothe the pain,   ”the actor later admitted. The result was logical:   school absenteeism and the use of prohibited  substances led to expulsion from school.   Although later Johnny said that he  tried to change the situation:   It's interesting that Johnny gave his daughter  Lily-Rose Depp a try of the drug when she was   13. The actor considers such an act a  manifestation of a responsible parent,   since many children in the high school  where his daughter studied began to take   alcohol and psychotropic substances  from the age of 12-13 at parties.   “She was just 12, and she said  she didn't know what to do,”...   “I said, 'Listen, sweetheart, if you are  at a party and someone hands you the joint,   take the joint from the person , and pass it  to the next person. Please don't experiment   with drugs with people you don't know.'” Johnny's first steps in music and cinema   A significant event in the life of the  future Jack Sparrow was a gift from his   mother - a cheap $ 25 electric guitar,  which he received for his 12th birthday.   Watching his cousins ​​play in his  Uncles gospel group, he became obsessed   with both guitar and music. It became an  incentive and creative outlet for Johnny:   he independently mastered a musical instrument,  and when his parents divorced and decided to   live an independent life, he left home and  moved into a trailer with his friend Sal.   At first, Johnny played with small garage  bands, then he formed his first band,   which he called Flame. At that time, it seemed  to him that he had found his place in life,   his professional vocation. Soon he joined the musical rock band   "Kids" and performed in nightclubs as part of  them. Once their performance was heard by Iggy   Pop, after which he invited the guys to perform  "as an opening act" for one of his concerts.   The future star was also impressed by the  visual component of rock and roll life.   You will hardly be surprised, knowing his style  of dressing. But the fact is that in order to   stand out not only in behavior, but also in style,  Johnny stole things from his mother's closet.   Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had  all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut   sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms. In one of the interviews, he admitted that he   wanted to wear platform shoes,  but "just couldn't find any."   But the first fees were not comparable  with what a young man needed to survive.   Because Johnny was forced to get by with  part-time jobs: he worked at a construction site,   worked as a courier and soon found a “stable” job  selling ball pens. But the guy gave all his free   time to music. In just 4 years, Johnny  changed 14 different musical bands.   At the age of 20, the guy first married the  girl Lori Ann Allison, who was 5 years older   than Johnny and worked as a make-up artist.  Happiness did not last long. Two years later,   the couple broke up due to the fact that the girl  didn’t like the constant lack of money. But their   marriage was the second significant event in  the life of our future star. Knowing about   her husband's plans to become an actor, Laurie  introduced him to Nicolas Cage. By the time they   met, he had already managed to gain experience in  the cinema: he starred in Francis Ford Coppola's   “Rumble Fish” and a number of other films. From that moment, a new stage in the life of   a young man began, which in the future would  be quoted by both children and adolescents,   imitating the habits of Jack Sparrow. In the meantime, he got the first role in   the horror film that later would become a cult  - "A Nightmare on Elm Street". It was released   in 1984. Johnny claimed that he counted on an  episodic role, considering participation in   the film as a springboard for his musical career.  But the directors were touched by his naturalness   and charisma, and they offered the guy the role  of Glen, one of the main characters in the plot.   Thanks to this role, other Hollywood  figures drew attention to Johnny and   began to invite the young man to shoot. And Johnny himself literally “fired up”   with acting. Without hesitation, he accepted an  invitation to shoot in the teen comedy "Private   Resort", which was released in 1985. This was the  first role of a young actor, where he had to make   professional “sacrifices”, namely, to act naked. But musical dreams didn’t leave him. Wanting to   save up for a new album, he took part in the  filming of such television series as "Hotel"   and "The Lady in Blue", as well as the supporting  role of Doni Fisher in the film "Slow burn",   along with Eric Roberts. But it didn't work  out as planned. Instead of a new album,   Johnny chose to spend money on acting classes  (and not in vain, as time has shown).   Pumping professional skills turned out to be very  useful. It led to the fact that we met a young   man in the cast of Oliver Stone's military drama  "Platoon", where he received the supporting role   of Private Lerner. Filming took place in difficult  conditions. The whole process of shooting took 54   days in the Philippines. Actors were “trained”  like real soldiers: they had to learn how to   move with equipment through forests, swamps and  rocks, eat army food, and sleep in trenches.   It was here that Johnny was able  to play side by side with actors   such as Charlie Shinn, Willem Dafoe, John  McGinley, Forest Whitaker and others.   The film was released in 1986 and almost  immediately received eight Oscar nominations.   According to the law of meanness,  almost the entire performance of   Johnny fell victim to Oliver Stone's editing,  it was cut from the final version of the film.   The actor appeared only in a few frames in the  background and in the central role of only one   scene, where he worked as an interpreter. Without losing hope, upon returning from   the Philippines, he continued to go through  auditions. In some of them he was successful.   So, in 1987, Johnny played in the  popular television series 21 Jump Street,   getting the role of a policeman  investigating the crimes of schoolchildren.   By the way, another popular actor played along  with John. Brad Pitt also participated in this   movie, although it wasn’t the title role. "21 Jump Street" made the guy very popular among   young people. Nevertheless, the actor himself  felt that the show was "stifling" his potential.   He didn't want to be seen as just a "teenage  idol"; playing the same "one-dimensional"   character became tiresome for him. Johnny claimed  more eccentric and meaningful roles, having not   only creative talent, but great ambitions. In an interview about 21 Jump Street,   the actor spoke unkindly about the series. “In the first two seasons I thought there was   a lot of good stuff going on,” … “There  were good, important messages. But I think   around the third season, it started to get  a little show-boaty, you know what I mean?   It just started to become false. It started to  become this action-packed can of soup, you know?   You just market it, and send it out.” It got to the point that the actor began   to commit provocative antics in order to be fired  from the show. One day, he trashed a trailer.   “After being confined to a television  series when you can’t play anything but   one particular character for, you know,  nine months… that’ll make you insane.”   Trying to get rid of the sugary role,  Johnny happily accepted the invitation of   the infamous director John Waters to play the  lead role in the grotesque musical Cry-Baby.   There John was a rebel, handsome,  impudent and imprudent bully.   The musical film was released in 1990 and received  a lot of positive feedback from the audience.   Such a step broke the stereotyped idea  of ​​​​Johnny as an actor of one role   and became a springboard to the next role  which became significant in his life.   You probably immediately guessed which one. And while I haven’t spoiled the movie yet,   pause and write your guess in the  comments (yep, I’m waiting)   In 1989, Johnny was lucky. He was invited to the  lead role in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands,   despite the fact that there were  decent competitors for the role.   And all of them were no less talented than Johnny:  Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Jim Carrey...   It’s for this role that we remember Johnny  Depp when we talk about his career achievements   (“Pirates” are not taken into account),  and exactly this role brought the actor   three important things: it raised  him to the acting Olympus,   and also - brought him the Golden Globe nomination  and introduced him to Winona Ryder, with whom   he connected his life for four years. It’s interesting that the main character - a   cyborg, played by Johnny, speaks only 169 words  for the entire film. However, this does not   prevent the actor from showing us the whole range  of feelings and emotions that Johnny experiences,   using only one thing - his eyes. Well, there is one more important thing.   This role helped Johnny make a long and strong  friendship with Tim Burton, which gave the world   such films as Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the  Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Dark Shadows   and other cool works of the tandem. They were two brilliant minds and at the same   time - two men experiencing difficulties with  communication. But with a similar outlook.   Johnny recalled their first meeting this way: “After sharing three of four pots of coffee,   stumbling our was through each other’s  unfinished sentences but somehow still   understanding each other, we ended the meeting  with a hand shake and a ‘nice to meet you’.”   In turn, Tim said: “Johnny is very much known as a teen idol and   he’s perceived as difficult and aloof. As a person  he's funny and warm, a great guy. He's a normal   guy-at least my interpretation of normal-but he's  completely the opposite of this perception.   The strong cast: Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Dianne  Wiest, gave the young actor a new experience.   With particular warmth, he recalled working with  Vincent Price. They became very close during   filming and communicated until Price's death. But it was not without curiosities. It took some   time for Johnny to get used to his costume. This  fact led to several blade incidents. For example,   once in a scene where Anthony Michael Hall's  character had to confront the main character,   he accidentally stabbed Hall's hand. But back to matters of the heart.   Winona charmed our hero. Innocent face,  big eyes…She even wore an engagement ring,   and Johnny got a "Winona Forever"  tattoo in honor of her. When they met,   Winona was 16 and Johnny was 26. “It was a classic glance like in West   Side Story where everything else went foggy,”  …“When I met Winona and we fell in love it was   absolutely like nothing ever before-ever” They soon became one of the most frequently   discussed and adored couples in Hollywood. They  were inseparable, spending whole days together:   reading beat poetry, going to bookstores  and listening to their favorite records.   They even had "their own" song -  "Crazy For You" by Madonna.   Five months later, Johnny proposed to Winona. She  also admitted that Depp was her first love.   “When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He  changed that. He was my first everything.   My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend.  My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with.   So he'll always be in my heart.  forever. Kind of funny, that word.”   But love didn't last forever. Gradually they began to move away from each other.   There were several reasons for this. The first  was the workload of the schedules of both stars,   since at that time they were at the peak of fame  Constant filming, schedules that didn't match -   somehow they started to spend less time. The second reason was the paparazzi, as well   as rumors and gossip about young actors. Winona was credited with romances with Gary   Oldman, then with Daniel Day-Lewis  on the set of The Age of Innocence.   Gradually, conversations around the couple  about betrayals, partings, engagements and   disagreements in their couple began to grow. They experienced the breakup in different ways.   According to rumors, Winona said that it would be  better for both of them. Depp, on the other hand,   experienced their breakup very painfully. Tim  Burton, who watched Ryder and Depp's relationship,   noted that the latter was "never the same"  after their relationship with Winona.   In the interview with the Los  Angeles Times, the actor said:   “It’s very hard to have a personal life  in this town. My relationship with Winona,   it was my mistake to be as open as we were. But  I thought if we were honest it would destroy that   curiosity monster. Instead, it fed it, gave people  a license to feel they were part of it.”   After a while, Johnny changed the tattoo from  "Winona forever" to "Wine forever", arguing that   the complete removal of the tattoo would mean the  removal of this part of his life with this girl.   And he didn't want that. Career takeoff   After "Edward" the career of the future  captain Jack Sparrow rapidly went up.   He was noticed by eminent directors, and one of  them was Emir Kusturica - a symbol of the Balkan   cinema. He offered Johnny a role in one of his  films, Arizona Dream, which was released in 1993.   Like all of Kusturica's films, "Arizona  Dream" became a very unusual, surreal movie,   where Depp played a romantic guy who followed  his dream, learned to love and went through   the metamorphosis of growing up. Although the  dream, like the film, came out quite unusual:   it featured Alaska and a flying halibut. Despite the eccentricity, the movie found   its fans, becoming very popular in France and  receiving a prize at the Berlin Film Festival.   Then there was a tandem with Mary  Masterson in the touching comedy   "Benny and Joon" directed by Jeremiah  S. Chechik, which was released in 1993.   The next work was the participation  in the filming of the film   "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" of the same year,  together with the young Leonardo DiCaprio.   It was one of Johnny's first bright dramatic  roles, where he revealed the image of a young guy,   tired of life, who didn’t see any prospects. Of course, until he met love and went on a   trip with his younger mentally retarded  brother, who was played by DiCaprio.   Recalling the shooting, Depp admitted that  he was going through hard times at that time   and Leonardo annoyed him a little. “I tortured him…I really did. He was always   talking about these video games, you know? I  told you it was kind of a dark period. ‘No,   I will not give you a drag of my cigarette while  you hide from your mother again, Leo.’”   Gradually, Johnny became addicted to public life.  In 1993, he opened a club called the Viper Room,   which was meant to be a rock concert venue. The club quickly gained popularity not only among   musicians, but also among celebrities. Everyone  played there: from Guns N’ Roses to Johnny Cash.   Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston and  Uma Thurman became frequent guests.   The haven of fun and revelry was  overshadowed by the death of Johnny's friend   River Phoenix. He died from a drug overdose. There was information in the press that some time   later, Johnny blamed himself for this, allegedly  he personally gave Phoenix the same dose.   As an argument, they gave his phrase: “Imagine living with that…”   Friendship with Tim Burton brought the  actor another role in 1994. It was the   comedy-drama Ed Wood, where he showed the fate of  the worst director in Hollywood, Edward Wood. The   picture was shot in black and white, which  made it very stylish and atmospheric.   The biopic also impresses with its cast.  In addition to our hero, you can see Sarah   Jessica Parker, Martin Landau, Bill Murray,  Patricia Arquette and Vincent D'Onofrio.Tired   of serious roles, Johnny gladly set to work,  where he could have a lot of fun: for the sake   of Wood's famous “cat” smile, special dentures  were inserted into him, he changed into a woman   ...and freely felt in a working  tandem with a brilliant director.   Despite the film's box office failure, many  critics received the movie positively. So,   according to Rotten Tomatoes, "Ed Wood" has a  rating of 8/10, based on 59 reviews from critics,   92% of whom liked the film. The National Board  of Film Critics of the United States included "Ed   Wood" in the list of 10 best films of 1994. In addition to the unusual role that brought our   hero a lot of fans, this year gave Johnny a  meeting with the famous model - Kate Moss.   This romance was stormy and dizzying. It was  of those that could be called “on the verge”,   it’s not for nothing that journalists  dubbed their relationship “cocaine”.   They met in 1994 at the New York Cafe Table  and immediately noticed each other.   “I knew from the first moment we talked  that we were going to be together,”...   then the model told They didn’t part until 1998, and   all this time their relationship was reminiscent  of a rollercoaster: scandalous antics, naked,   outrageous passion and demonstrativeness. Kate introduced herself to journalists under   the surname Depp, and Johnny mentioned to  the media about his plans to have children.   Whether it was on camera or real intentions  - we won’t know. But the couple didn’t get   out of their hotel rooms for weeks and  tried to spend all the time together.   "They can't keep their hands, lips, mouths,  legs off each other,"...one of Depp's friends   recalled in an interview with People magazine. At the same time, they were under the influence   of alcoholic beverages and drugs almost all  the time. When, some time later, in 1994,   the supermodel announced the breakup, Depp  trashed the Mark Hotel room, for which he   was arrested. This was followed by an equally  eccentric situation: a loud scandal with breaking   dishes in a London restaurant. The couple decided  to reconcile in the same restaurant, making love   in front of obviously stunned spectators. In 1998, Moss already distinguished herself:   she trashed a room in the French hotel Hotel  du Cap, where they rested together. Because   she was not allowed to walk in a common  corridor in a bikini (Nothing strange…).   Trying to keep Kate, Johnny gave her expensive  gifts. For example, a diamond necklace,   which he bought for his beloved and hid between  the buttocks. (I wonder how long she searched)   The couple broke up after 4 years of relationship  quietly, without official publicity. At some   point, they stopped appearing together, and later  it became known about the separation itself.   Johnny himself took the blame  for the breakup entirely.   "I'm so stupid because we had so much going for  our relationship…I was difficult to get on with,   I let my work get in the way and I didn't give  her the attention I should have done…Sure , I   should care about my movies, but when I get  home I should try to leave that stuff behind,   …I couldn't do that and I was horrific to live  with. Trust me, I'm a total moron at times."   Kate recalls their relationship with warmth: “I was lucky to be with Johnny...He taught   me a lot about fame. He told me,  'never complain, never explain'.   Love adventures didn’t prevent our hero  from following his acting dream.   Another reincarnation was waiting for Johnny  in the film by Jim Jarmusch "Dead Man",   which was released in 1995. Here he had  to play the shy accountant William Blake,   who was forced to go on a mystical,  possibly posthumous, journey.   This was followed by two works with  Marlon Brando - "Don Juan de Marco" and   "The Brave", released in 1995 and 1997. Their joint work was marked by an amazing   coincidence of minds. In a 2016 interview,  Depp recalled their meeting, during which   they discovered that they were both big fans of  William Saroyan's play The Time of Your Life.   After that, Johnny opened his wallet and took out  a folded piece of paper - an excerpt from a book   with the same play, which he always carried  with him. Surprisingly, Marlon did the same:   he showed him a frame in which there  was exactly the same, folded and many   times re-read excerpts of the book, which he had  carried in his purse for many years before.   Depp greatly respected and looked up to Brando.  In the same interview, speaking of Marlon,   he said the following words: “He understood me very well and I understood   him…We connected on many levels, especially the  fact that no one wants to be a novelty.”   It's important to mention that The Brave was  Johnny's first directorial debut. The film was   based on the novel The Brave by Gregory MacDonald,  in which the actor also played the main role.   But this debut was not easy for him. Moreover,  he was forced to invest about $ 2 million   in film production, paying a  quarter of the total costs.   “I felt driven to do this movie,”...  “This was one of the most difficult   things I’ve ever done. It's just  about ripped me to shreds."   Despite Johnny's efforts, the picture failed  and received a number of negative reviews.   Variety called the film "a turgid  and unbelievable neo-western."   Screen International were more categorical:  “Depp’s ignominious directorial debut crawls   across the screen for two hours like a snail.  Narratively inept and dramatically empty. “   In parallel, a kind of “criminal  period” began in Johnny’s career.   He starred in the action movie “Nick of time”  by John Badham, where he played the role of a   cowardly accountant who faced a difficult moral  and ethical choice with an unexpected plot twist.   In "Donnie Brasco" in 1997, Johnny worked  on the set with the famous Al Pacino.   An experienced gangster and his assistant,  who was actually an undercover FBI agent,   made an excellent team not only in  the film, but also on the set.   Both Alfredo and Johnny confessed they admire  each other. In fact, it was Al Pacino who was   first supposed to play Brasco in the movie. But  once Pacino decided to don the character of Lefty,   the actor recommended Johnny Depp for the  role. This proved to be a strength of the   film because as the great Roger Ebert  pointed in the review of the film,   “Donnie Brasco is essentially a movie  about friendship between two men,   two tough men who hardly find anchor  in each other.” (Roger Ebert)   The film received positive reviews  from critics and commercial success,   as well as about 20 awards and nominations  at American and international film festivals,   including nominations for the Oscar, Best Adapted  Screenplay and the European Film Award.   And here we turn to one of the  iconic movies of Johnny Depp.   Well, who did already guess it? And now? That's right, folks!   It's about the hallucinogenic adventures of the  main characters in the film "Fear and Loathing   in Las Vegas", which was released in 1998. The story is based on the novel of the same name   by the infamous writer Hunter Thompson,  which the actor read at the age of 15.   In 1994, Johnny had the opportunity to meet  the author himself. Struck by his openness   and extravagance, bordering on insanity, Johnny  immediately felt that they were alike. (well,   who would have doubted...) According to Johnny himself,   their meeting took place in 1994, at the Woody  Creek Tavern, which was located in Colorado.   The first thing the actor remembered about his  friend was the sparks that his stun gun gave out:   …I see sparks! I realized there was …a Taser  gun, and …people were leaping and hurling   themselves out of the path of the mayhem that  was approaching—and I heard the voice first say,   "Out of my way, you bastards!" … He made the  Red Sea part, arrived at my table, and said,   "How are you? My name is Hunter." To prepare for the role, Depp lived with Hunter   for several months at his house. And during this  period they became so close that journalists began   to call them “family”. This friendship lasted  until the writer's death in 2005, after which   Johnny paid for his rather expensive funeral.  Its price was associated with the writer's   unusual last wish. And Hunter wanted to be shot  with ashes from a cannon (quite an appropriate   funeral for such a person). In addition, he  paid off all his debts and produced the film   "The Rum Diary" based on Thompson's novel of the  same name. He also played a major role in it,   and this role was the beginning of a sequence of  troubles for our hero. But more on that later.   Remembering Hunter Thompson,  Johnny said the following:   He knew I worshiped him, and I know that he  loved me, so he may have been part father figure,   part mentor, but I'd say the closest thing  is brothers. We were like brothers.   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was nominated for  the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival,   but the jury, which included Depp's ex-girlfriend  Winona Ryder, awarded the prize to the work of   Greek independent director Theo Angelopoulos. The turn of the millennium was crowned with the   opening of Johnny's personal star on  the Walk of Fame and wild popularity.   Now he could sort through the films and choose  only those that matched his taste and vision,   selecting the actors with whom he would like to  work with. But fame and success didn’t prevent   our hero from critically evaluating himself and  remaining “sober” in relation to his results.   In 1999, the next cult film  starring Depp was released.   It was the mystical thriller The Ninth Gate  directed by Roman Polanski. The actor was able   to brilliantly embody in the film a new image for  himself - a charming, money-hungry scoundrel.   The Ninth Gate packages its scares with classy  style that the characters deliver with sexily   provocative intelligence. Dean Corso may be  Johnny Depp’s greatest spiritual transformation,   from odious to ultimate evil and  the audience cheers on his descent,   happy to ride with him straight to hell. The film brought the actor not only an   excellent role. On the set of The  Ninth Gate, Johnny met his future wife,   Vanessa Paradis, with whom he lived for 14  years and had two children. In the interview   with the Daily Mail, the actor recalled: She was wearing a dress with an exposed back   and I saw that back and that neck, and then  she turned around and I saw those eyes,   and — boom!... you have this feeling  — I can’t really explain what it was,   but I had it when I met her. I saw her across a  room and thought: “What’s happening to me?”   A year later, their daughter was born. They called  her Lily-Rose Depp. The actor changed a lot,   according to friends' words. He gave up  drinking, drugs and idle entertainment.   "When I saw my daughter being born, it was the  first really totally selfless moment I'd had"   Johnny completely immersed himself in the  family and the upbringing of his first   child, while continuing to shoot in movies.   In the same year, 1999, another famous film was  released. It was a gothic horror film featuring   Depp - "Sleepy Hollow" by Tim Burton. As you can  see, his friend didn’t forget about Johnny.   It was a loose adaptation of Washington Irwin's  short story, in which Johnny played the role   of Constable Ichabod Crane, who investigated  murders and at the same time lost consciousness   at the sight of blood. The image of Ichabod  was, as if, painted under Johnny - just look:   extravagant, bright, eccentric, he quickly  gained popularity and became a cult.   And, of course, it’s impossible not to mention  that such amazing actors as Miranda Richardson,   Casper Van Dien, Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Jones  and others worked on the set with Johnny.   Perhaps it was thanks to the good directorial  and acting work that Sleepy Hollow collected   a number of awards: the Oscar for  Best Production Design, the BAFTA   for Best Costume Design, Saturn and others. After filming, Johnny had the warmest memories   of his work and a very unusual bonus - a one-eyed  horse that played Ichabod Crane in the film.   The final period of Johnny's "dark" films  was another horror film - "From Hell",   where he appeared in the image  of Inspector Frederick Abberline,   a brilliant drug addict detective  who was also a clairvoyant.   Under an opium stupor, he saw crimes before  they happened, but couldn’t prevent them.   The work of Albert and Alain Hughes really  deserves attention (if you haven't seen it yet,   check it out now). Great acting by Ian  Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson,   and of course Depp didn't give the film a  chance to fail. Although some critics with   cynical sting reacted to Johnny's approach  to the manifestation of the character.   Despite the fact that "From Hell" was not the  first historical film in Johnny's biography,   he took the opportunity to participate  in the film with great enthusiasm.   "I'm a history freak and always  wanted to travel back in time,   so period films give me that opportunity."...  "walking onto the Whitechapel set they built in   Prague was about the closest opportunity  yet for me to step back in time."   Between horror and family life, Depp  was involved in a number of roles. So,   in 2000, three films were released: “The Man Who  Cried”, “Before Night Falls” and “Chocolat”.   The role of a transvestite prisoner, as well  as a sadistic jailer in the same film - Until   Night Falls by Julian Schnabel is considered one  of the most scandalous in Johnny's career.   And not only because the actor played two  opposites, opposed in one plot. The tape   touches on a number of political and acute social  issues in the life of post-revolutionary Cuba,   mixed with the fate of people who got out  of the regime: poets, artists, gays.   By the way, for his role Johnny didn’t  take a cent, thus confirming the idea   that acting for him is, first of all, a  way to express himself and his ideas.   In 2001, one of the most controversial,  according to critics, Depp's works,   Cocaine, was released, where the actor had  the opportunity to work with Penelope Cruz.   Here he got the role of American smuggler  George Young. Drama directed by Ted Deme was   based on real events and told about  the life path of the protagonist.   While preparing for this role, Johnny even visited  George Young in prison for several days.   Here is what he later wrote  about these meetings:   'It’s very rare in life that any person opens  up their heart and soul to you with unlimited   access to their most profound thoughts, dreams,  fears, regrets, intimacies,' … Even more rare   when you’ve just met that person and, because  of the obvious predicament, it’s highly unlikely   that you will be spending too much time with  them in the near future. So for this and more,   I owe a great debt of gratitude to George.' Cocaine did not live up to financial expectations.   At an outlay of $53 million, it raised just a  little more within the US and another $30 million   worldwide. The rating was also disappointing:  at 55% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 141 reviews   and Metacritic, the film has a weighted average  score of 52 out of 100, based on 34 critics.   But Johnny didn't give up. Later fate  gave him a role that became a cult.   The image which became the culmination of  his career, and in which he was able to   embody all his artistry and extraordinariness. Yes, this was the role of Captain Jack Sparrow.   Initially, it wasn’t important at all in  Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jack Sparrow   was supposed to be completely different. And, if  everything went according to the original idea, we   might not enjoy a drunken, cheerful and slightly  vulgar pirate at all. But Johnny suggested very   non-standard corrections to the image...What? Who  did Johnny copy Jack Sparrow's mannerisms from?   And what antics did Depp do on set? You will learn all this in Part 2. I’ll determine   by your activity whether you want to see the  continuation. Like this video, write a comment,   and if I see that you guys are really interested  in part 2, I’ll release it as soon as possible.   And while you wait for the second part, you  can click on the video on your screen and   find out how the magnificent Pirates of the  Caribbean franchise has lost its greatness.   Who was the cause of its collapse? What was  the secret of the success of the first parts?   Follow the link and take a look. It was Biographer, thanks for watching! See you!
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Published: Sat Feb 19 2022
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