17 h 22 mai 2019 ans - DAILY MAIL John Waters reveals he stopped Winona Ryder from marrying Johnny Depp, was offered money for the sewage under the actor's trailer by a besotted fan

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John Waters refused to marry 19-year-old Winona Ryder to Johnny Depp because he thought she was too young, he reveals in his new memoir Mr Know-It-All: the Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.

The director had just finished filming 27-year-old Depp in the 1990 movie Cry-Baby and the actor wanted him ordained as a minister to marry Ryder, 19, who was eight years younger than him.

Waters talked them out of it after Depp's lawyers had drafted the paperwork - and claims Ryder's parents gratefully thanked him afterwards.

The colorful anecdote is one of many in the laugh-out-loud memoir by Waters, who is best known for his cult films like Hairspray and Serial Mom.

His lewd and kitsch taste made him famous in 1972 for his film Pink Flamingos, in which the characters compete for the title of filthiest person alive.

Waters, who has been dubbed the 'Pope of Trash' and the 'Prince of Puke', has spent nearly five decades in the movie business and at the age of 73 has now achieved a level of respectability which baffles him.

In his memoir Waters recounts the later part of his career with wit and warts-and-all detail.

His shamelessness came in handy during the making of Polyester, his 1981 comedy which starred 1950s movie star Tab Hunter and Divine, the drag queen and close friend.

In the book he takes aim at The Pope, calling him a ' faux-queer-friendly fraud' and says a 'stink bomb' should be dropped on Uganda for opposing gay people

New Line Cinema put up half the $300,000 budget and Waters had to find the rest - so he got $30,000 from a camp counselor who used to masturbate him when he was 14 years old.

Waters writes that during filming they hired an empty suburban house and moved in for a month, shooting 24 hours a day and enraging the neighbors with the noise of generators running at night.

The final straw was on a Sunday morning as all the neighbors were walking to church and the crew were shooting a scene with dead bodies in a car.

A local pastor thought it was real - and asked his congregation to pray for the victims.

Waters writes that filming Hairspray was 'one of the happiest times of my life' until Divine died two weeks after it came out and ruined the film's chances of commercial success.

Waters writes: 'Who wants to go laugh at a comedy when the star died the day before?'

In 2002 the movie was turned into a musical which stormed Broadway and toured the world but not without some issues.

In South Korea they put blackface on the actors and argued it was OK because they 'don't have any black people here'. Waters demanded they use another ethnic minority so they did.

A school in Texas had all white children playing the black parts and Waters objected to thin girls in fat suits playing the character of Tracy Turnblad, who was played by Ricki Lake in the film.

He writes: 'Isn't a fat suit blackface of insult to overweight girls? There's plenty of fat talent in the United States!'

Hairspray was arguably Water's career high and it helped him to land Depp for Cry-Baby in which he played a motorbike riding punk who dates a prim high school girl.

Waters writes that Depp 'hated being the Justin Bieber of his time and figured making a movie with me was a surefire way to haywire that image'.

The rest of the cast included a freshly sober Iggy Pop who was 'serious' about being an actor on set.

A young Brad Pitt came in to read for the part of Milton and was a complete unknown at the time so Waters turned him down because they 'needed a guy with a quirkier look'.

He writes: 'I may be the only director who turned down Brad Pitt in a casting session'.

Seventeen-year-old Amy Locane, who read for the part of Allison, the square who turns 'bad' for Depp's love, kissed him during a rehearsal and fainted on the spot.

Locane would later kill a woman and injure her husband while driving drunk but Waters defends her, writing: 'As awful and terrible as that was, couldn't it have been you or me, dear reader?'

During the shoot 'of course there was drama' writes Waters but Depp was professional even though Waters routinely called him 'Cry-Rimmer', a pun on the film's title.

Waters writes: 'He was constantly battling paparazzi or wild girl groupies who would leave notes at his hotel reading: 'I'd like to suck your d*** through a garden hose'.

'One group of girls approached the crew and offered to pay for the sewage under Depp's trailer'.

The FBI raided the set and tried to get actress Traci Lords to return to LA to testify against the mafia for distributing her underage porn films.

Lake lost her virginity halfway through the shooting and Waters had an affair with a young man he called an 'insanely cute hipster'.

Waters writes: 'Before we wrapped Depp's lawyers did the paperwork to get me ordained as a minister in the Universal Life Church because (he and Ryder) wanted me to perform the marriage ceremony, but I gently talked them out of it because Winona was so young. Her parents thanked me'.

Before the filming of Serial Mom Waters had been warned that Kathleen Turner, the star of the movie, was a 'ball breaker' but he found her to be a 'total pro'.

Waters says that Turner's only vice was that she 'liked a cocktail' and enjoyed the 'ferocious growl of ''Ahhhhhhhh'' she let out after her first martini of the evening.'

Serial Mom would prove to be Waters' last movie that turned a profit and started the beginning of his return to the fringes of film making.

But did it stop him? Of course not.

He writes: 'Mid career is the time to realize that failing upward is the only way to go'.

Water's film Pecker led to him taking the Motion Picture Association of America to arbitration because they claimed the title referred to a penis.

Waters successfully argued it referred to the main character and the film and got it released.

The movie, which starred Christina Ricci and was about an aspiring photographer, was mocked by the critics like The Japan Times which called it a 'Disney Film for perverts'.

Some saw the funny side and it was rejected by the Cannes Film Festival which said it was 'not offensive enough like your other usual stuff'.

The most uncomfortable part of filming was when Waters wanted a scene showing two rats having sex so he called in an animal trainer to help.

As they waited for the rats to feel the urge Waters decided to talk 'rat dirty' to get into the part and said: 'Oh f*** me, rat hog! Eat that cheese b****!

'F*** my dirty rat hole'

Nobody laughed on set which Waters thought was odd until he left his director's chair and was 'mortified' to realize that the trainer had brought a child with him to see how movies were made - and had heard everything.

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