12 h 5 min, 5 sept. 2021 ans - Johnny Depp CITY OF LIES DEAUVILLE A Conversation

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Full interview 80 minutes.

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[Translated from the original French using Google Translate.]

Johnny Depp in Deauville: "My boss is the public"

At the 47th Deauville American Film Festival, Johnny Depp attracted the crowd and raised the temperature. Cinema icon and popular actor, the 58-year-old star appeared smiling, and in great shape.

by Nathalie CHIFFLET

How is Johnny Depp? Very well, thank you! The American actor landed for this first summer weekend of September on the boards of Deauville, with a good dose of humor and good humor.

Johnny Depp makes Deauville dream. With him, it's Hollywood on the most beautiful sandy beach in Normandy. Cinema, America, the dream bigger than life. Depp is the superstar, the icon, the huge actor. Celebrities who step on the boards of the 47th Deauville American Film Festival, whose jury is chaired by Charlotte Gainsbourg, he was the most anticipated.

Johnny goes to Deauville for Brad Furman's City of Lies, screened on Sunday, September 5 out of competition. The film reviews the history of the murders of rappers Tupac and Notorious BIG in the late 1990s. Depp plays Inspector Russell Poole who has been investigating this story for years.

Before the screening, Johnny in Deauville had an appointment with the fans. No more place for his public conversation, complete for days. Festival-goers waited several hours under the sun to be in the front rows.

"Actor punk rock"

We recognize a superstar by the desire it arouses. We also recognize her, because she knows how to make herself desired and because she makes herself wait. Johnny Depp arrived late, but it doesn't matter. He was there and lent himself to the game of questions and answers, willingly having fun with the audience, many young girls, who waved to his hand. Big charisma, bewitching voice, Johnny immediately seduces. "We're not bad now," he says.

Johnny called himself a "punk rock actor". He has the right suit for that: rock star look, blue glasses, banded fingers, black cap. Johnny the rock star is also a musician. The actor is a guitarist, singer. Not so long ago, he covered John Lennon's "Isolation" with Jeff Beck.

In Deauville, he returned to his learning of music. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is one of the first albums he discovered and loved, thanks to his brother. "At the age of 11-12, I was listening to a successful record. Frampton comes alive. My big brother Dany, who was 10 years older than me, had come to my room and thrown this record. And he suggested that I listen to real music. I didn't know anything at that time, because I didn't even really know what I liked." His brother had also advised him to listen to the soundtrack of films, Le Dernier Tango à Paris or Orange mécanique.

"All my characters are outsiders"

Johnny has been playing the guitar since then. Since he was 12 years old. He had a first group called The Kids. He has often said it, he repeats it: "I still don't know today if I'm an actor".

Johnny likes to talk about cinema, about his history with cinema. But he doesn't like the word career: "I make films, which add up. I make choices. All my characters are outsiders. I like broken characters. We all have a broken side." Johnny also doesn't like the word fan, too negative for him. "There are just people who go to the movies and who love the cinema. The audience is my boss, I'm just the employee of the spectators."

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