12 h, apr 16, 2012 y - NAVAJO ELDERS LONE RANGER SET Johnny Depp Meeting

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While shooting The Lone Ranger in Monument Valley, Johnny Depp visited with Navajo leaders who paid a good-will visit to the filmmakers. In costume as Tonto, Johnny spoke with Navajo
president Ben Shelly and vice president Rex Lee Jim, who presented Johnny and costar Armie Hammer with Pendleton blankets.

Johnny also met with Dr. Gayle Dine' Chacon, the Navajo nation's surgeon general; she is responsible for responding to public health problems among Navajos. "He is a very charming man, very gracious and very concerned as well," she told the local press. Dine'

Chacon spoke to Johnny about preventing youth suicide, a leading cause of death among young Navajos. "He probably spent a good hour with us. Everybody else left the set, but he was still there."

"He is so charming, " Dine' Chacon confided. "You feel that you are the only one there that he's just focusing on you."

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