16 h, oct 24, 2011 y - COLUMBIA UNI THE RUM DIARY Promotion Johnny Depp

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Johnny Depp joined a panel hosted by the Columbia Journalism School, held before a special screening of Johnny Depp's upcoming film The Rum Diary, Depp recalled his interactions with GS alumnus Hunter S. Thompson.

Johnny Depp remembers the day he first met Hunter S. Thompson. He was waiting at the back of a tavern when the author and journalist burst in, ordering people out of his way. “I just saw sparks, literally sparks,” Depp said of their first encounter. “In his left hand he had a three-foot cattle prod, and in his right hand a tazer.”

The memory was one of many shared Monday night by Johnny Depp and director Bruce Robinson at a Columbia University panel honouring the life and legacy of Thompson before a special screening of Depp’s upcoming film, The Rum Diary. In the film — adapted from a novel by Thompson — Depp plays Paul Kemp, a semi-autobiographical stand-in for Thompson who works as a young freelance journalist in Puerto Rico.