jan 19, 2008 - RADIO TIMES Tim Burton Johnny Depp Interview

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Über-outsiders Johnny Depp and Tim Burton talk fame, family and friendship in an exclusive interview with Andrew Duncan.

Burton groans. "I can't watch my films. I have
no conception whether they're good or bad. " His partner, and mother of his two children, Helena Bonham Carter, who also stars in Sweeney Todd, says he and Depp looked like brothers on set as they both had "big" hair. One allows for wifely myopia. Burton is an eccentric bear of a man, a normal-looking bloke - he and Bonham Carter are known as Bag Lady and Scruffy.

Boyish Depp is androgynously sensual - face sleek as a baby's bum, albeit adorned with a goatee; he speaks slowly and softly with a fine line in heterosexual camp. His dishevelled jeans, filthy shoes, necklaces, bracelets, rings- a skull and crossbones, gold signet, platinum with diamonds - sit incongruously beneath a brown fedora with which he fiddles nervously. Burton whispers: "He has his own dress sense. It doesn't always work."