14 ore 30 min, 17 ottob 2021 anni - Johnny Depp PUFFINS Alice Nella Città ROME Masterclass & Award

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Johnny was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

FROM ROLLING STONE ITALIA:

[Translated from the original Italian using Google Translate]

5 unmissable things about the meeting with Johnny Depp in Rome

The wait (repaid by great generosity). The review of his career (interspersed with irresistible gags). The new 'animated' role (which does not overshadow the old pirate). Everything that happened at 'Johnny Day' of Alice in the City 2021

The career, well explained

Alice in the City, the festival dedicated to children and new looks at parallel section cinema of the Rome Festival, had courted him for a good ten years. Messages, requests, appeals from young viewers were finally served: Johnny Depp arrived as the most dreamed, longed, awaited guest (see below) of recent years. The pretext is the animated web series Puffins, in which he plays the role of the protagonist Johnny Puff with magnificent self-irony (applause). But "Johnny Day" is much more: an unbridled one-man-show that goes from the red carpet in the morning (or almost: we always talk about it in a while) to the evening masterclass, in which to retrace his career with him, a transgenerational bridge that goes from fathers to children, from Edward's scissorhands to captain Jack Sparrow and the Mad Hatter. Everything changed in the early 90s: "I had accidentally found myself imprisoned in a TV series (21 Jump Street, in which he acted from 1987 to 1990, ed), I had a seven-year contract and for two and a half years I tried in every way to get fired, I even ended up in prison because I started to feel like a product and I didn't like it. When they told me that my commitment was over, they continued to propose scripts all based on the same formulas, but I wanted to do something different, creative. I never really chose to be an actor, I just wanted to create my own path, if people didn't understand it I would have done something else, maybe a bricklayer. I waited and waited and finally a script of John Waters, Cry Baby arrived, and when I read it I said: "Oh my god, it's perfect, it gives me the opportunity to enter a terrain that is mine". It was the first step on the road I wanted to take. The second was Tim with Edward's hands of scissors. And we all know how it went...

The psychedelic Puffins

A series for very young children? Certainly. Johnny did it for that: "When Andrea and Monika (Iervolino and Bacardi, producers of the series, ed) contacted me, the project immediately caught my interest, because there was the idea of looking for a new language, finding a way to express myself... What sounds can attract the attention of such a small child? I started to investigate what sounds were pleasant, how babies react: they say "Uh", "Ih", "Ah", and the answer is that you never know. Anyone who is a parent and has gone through those dark nights of the soul in which you would resort to anything to make your child laugh knows it». And for the message that the series conveys: "The Puffins want to have a positive influence on children. When I was a kid, on television there was the Vietnam War while we had dinner, if we had dinner». But Puffins risks being the most psychedelic cartoon ever. The song of the walrus, the episode presented during the encounter with the real Johnny Puff (this is the name of his character) are five minutes of pure psychedelic extravagance, from opera to rap. Passing by the Hollywood Vampire rock, which also lends the guitar to its puffin.

The sting at Disney

In reviewing his career in front of the audience of Alice in the City, Johnny also reaches the nodal point, the one that has changed everything: from mostly indie star to true box-office idol. In three words: Pirates of the Caribbean. "My approach to the characters has never changed and the choices I made at the time are the ones I considered important," he admitted about his "method". «But it's more interesting what I refused, even though my agents told me to accept because they could see the money escaping under their noses. I never understood one thing: the Studios hired me and then demanded that I do certain things, as if they hadn't seen anything I had done before. Then came Jack Sparrow (he says it with the voice of the character, ed). Maybe it's not the best way to see it, but the beauty for me was the possibility of infiltrating the enemy's camp: Disney. For three years I raised a daughter, I only watched cartoons and I said to myself: why can't I play a cartoon too? Whether you are five or seventy years old, when you look at a cartoon there is a total suspension of disbelief, always believe what you see. The parameters in the industry were very tight, with Jack I tried to expand them». Here, Mickey Mouse.

The expectations

What if Johnny Depp's expectation was Johnny Depp herself? The red carpet for the morning of Sunday, October 17, scheduled for 12:30, started at 14:15. Is an hour and three quarters too much? Maybe, but everything has turned into a kind of collective sit-in moved by irresistible energy. Everyone was (we were) there for Johnny, among journalists, fans, curious, some lookalike who took advantage of the absence of the real Depp to get interviewed in his rehead, giant puppets of the Puffins who had to undress because it was too hot, and then the final explosion when the star arrived. Which was very generous. In the evening, "only" one hour of delay for the start of the masterclass. But, in return, an equally crazy audience ("Sexy boyyyyy!") and very remarkable statements: "I believe that this wanting to preserve childhood is valid for everyone," he said about his roles that make us (and do) eternally return to children, "but sometimes childhood does not leave you this sense of security, sometimes you go looking for it elsewhere. For me it is always very important to keep my brain active, to make it think, otherwise I would find myself in a dark room».

The gags with the interpreter

After the show at the morning press conference, in which the interpreter Bruna Cammarano found herself with Johnny's hat on her head, the little theater between the star and the translator continued in the evening's masterclass. Between one very serious statement and another – – space for improvisation. And to the envy of the spectators (and spectators) in the hall: kisses, hugs, until the topical moment. That is: Johnny throwing his microphone and then that of the interpreter, in "drop the mic" mode. And the theater comes down.

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