2 h 6 set 2021 ano - FOTOGRAMAS Spain Johnny Depp 17 brushstrokes of a star - the career of the former Hollywood weirdo

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FROM: FOTOGRAMAS Spain

[Translated from the original Spanish using Google Translate.]

Johnny Depp: 17 brushstrokes of a star

Can you be a rebel with over 50? Or a star to whom success brings to the hover? It seems so, but only if you're Johnny Depp. The former Hollywood weirdo is today one of the most respected actors in cinema and, since 'Pirates of the Caribbean', an (almost) certain value at the box office. We trace his life in 17 brushstrokes today that he is on his birthday.

BY ROGER SALVANS

1. The movie star who wanted to be a rock star
He was born in Kentucky. He is the youngest of four brothers. He moved to Miramar, Florida. His parents divorced. He left school. He touched a band. He tattooed himself... Thus, with four brushstrokes, John Christopher Depp II (Owensboro, Kentucky, June 9, 1963) was summed up. That was before he aspired to be a rock star, before he went to Los Angeles, long before he went through his head to be an actor. And it is that, guitar aside, in Depp everything seems to have arrived by chance. By chance. Because Nicolas Cage, ex-boyfriend of his first wife (Lori, with whom Depp was married between 1983 and 1986), thought he could do well on camera. He gave him his agent's phone and, the next day, Wes Craven signed him for Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). That was his second job as an actor because the first, he said in an interview, was not on stage but on the phone. He sold pens. In a nutshell, she called people who didn't want to be called to sell them things they didn't want to buy. I only succeeded once. On screen, things were going to change. And it wouldn't be a matter of chance...

2. TV: between love and oblivion
Just turned 30, Depp was asked how he looked at 50. Or if he thought he would fulfill them (they were the days of excesses and the nights in The Viper Room, see point 5). I hope to arrive, he said, but I don't think much about it. I would love to turn 60, 70 or 75 and have a lot of kids running around and telling them stories of old Hollywood. What he would not tell them are TV stories, the medium that made him a star. Quite an irony for someone who grew up devouring series. Depp hated his, Young Policemen (1987-1990, broadcast in Spain by Antena 3 TV). The pilot was starred by Jeff Yagher (Kyle in the V series) because Johnny, at first, rejected the offer. Then he would rethink it and end up accepting. The last two seasons of the series I didn't even remember what my character was called.

3. Authors to the rescue
If it weren't for the fact that Waters took a risk with me, I wouldn't be where I am today. In Cry-Baby (1990), John Waters made him dance (not sing, the voice was James Intveld) and rescued him from the covers of teen magazines to make him the pretty boy of indie directors. It's true, Oliver Stone had already wanted him as the protagonist for Platoon (1986) but they said he looked too young, Depp recalls. Then came Jarmusch, Gilliam, Kusturica, Polanski... And, above all, Tim Burton.

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