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Next up for Depp is a story of an Australian bank robber who escaped maximum-security jail and went to live in Bombay as a slum doctor, then became involved with the Bombay mafia (2005)
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Depp on his children (2005):
"They make me happy. Simple fun things. Me and my son zooming around in little cars or my absurb stories about Barbie dolls getting obsessed with peanut butter"
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In the 2005 film The Libertine, Depp plays the 17th-century Earl of Rochester. a man whose poetry was so lewd it was banned for centuries and who died of too much drink and syphilis. Samuel Johnson once described him as having:
"blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness"
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He fell in love almost at first sight with French singer Vanessa Paradis, who quickly became pregnant with Lily Rose in 1999, then Jack, in 2002. Fatherhood revolutionised Depp. "I helped give our daughter life, and she gave me life." He is a die-hard romantic and believes that Vanessa is The One. He's fiercely loyal to her. "It's amazing to be parents together, that's the truth" (2005)
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In 2005, on ex-girlfriend's Kate Moss addiction to cocaine and her treatment in the press:
"She's growing up. We all are. Let her be. But I never took Pete Doherty aside and I never sent her a mirror, as has been written.
"They said I sent a mirror to the place where she was getting straight because it is supposed to be an old Indian custom: look in the mirror and find your own strength to abstain. But I would never have thought a mirror would be the right thing to send her: I feel so bad for her"
His message to the press:
"Fuck 'em. They are trying to crucify her; and all that's gonna do is give her more power. She should take that and run with it. Ultimately I know she's very stong and very smart. She'll be fine."
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Height | 5' 10" (1.78 m)
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He plays lead slide guitar on the Oasis track Fade In-Out
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Fan of British comedy and featured in the TV series The Last Ever Fast Show in 2000
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Once spent £11,000 on a bottle of wine in a London restaurant
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Co-owns a restaurant/club in Paris called Man Ray (named after avant-garde artist Man Ray) with Sean Penn and John Malkovich
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Owns Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles home
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Reported in 2004 to have purchased a property in the seaside town of Rye, Sussex, UK
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Stayed with Hunter S. Thompson in preparation for the movie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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I N T E R V I E W ' 9 8
'A big part of me still misses Kate'
Johnny Depp, 35, has repeatedly eschewed mainstream Hollywood roles, preferring to play misfits such as Edward Scissorhands and the title role in Ed Wood instead. His latest film, the adaption of Hunter S Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, sees him as a drug-crazed writer, Raoul Duke. Depp lives in Los Angeles and, since splitting up from Kate Moss, has been linked with French singer Vanessa Paradis.
Question: How do you deal with fame?
Johnny Depp: I never liked being in the public eye. It makes me feel very uncomfortable. That's why I love spending time in Paris so much. I can do what I want without being scrutinised, judged or stalked. I'm not really interested in glitz. I prefer to live a life filled as much as possible with unusual experiences.
Question: Was it a wild experience living with Hunter S Thompson while you prepared to play Raoul Duke?
Johnny Depp: He was incredibly generous to let me live in his basement. I spent the first week absorbing as much as I could by staying holed up with nothing but his books and my roll-ups for company. On the sixth day I suddenly realised the room was packed with gunpowder kegs - and I was smoking. I was lucky not to have blown the whole house up. Hunter just laughed when I told him.
Question: Was it hard to transform yourself into Hunter?
Johnny Depp: I tried to make myself look as much like him as possible. I shaved my head on top and left a sort of short-haired chinichilla around the sides. I really did become him in this film; in fact, too much. He is all the things I want to be - sensitive, cutting, sharp, observant. When I lived with him I wanted to swallow his thoughts and emotions.
Question: Was he in danger of taking you over completely?
Johnny Depp: The actor Bill Murray [who played Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam in 1980] called me up before we started filming and said: 'This is your warning call. Hunter never leaves you - it will take years to shake him off.' And he was right.
Question: Was it the hardest job you've ever done?
Johnny Depp: No. Directing The Brave was a nightmare. I was an idiot to attempt it. It was too much work for one person. You get up earlier than everybody, go to bed later than everybody, and when you're asleep you're dreaming about it.
Question: Has the criticism your directorial debut received discouraged you?
Johnny Depp: I'd still direct another film because I can't think of another way of winding up the critics and stealing two and a half hours of their life.
Question: Is it true that directing is the ultimate example of an actor's ego being let loose?
Johnny Depp: That's not far from the truth, but I hope not in my case. I know it sounds strange, but I've never really wanted to be an actor or director. I was an musician and still am. The other stuff just happened.
Question: Don't you like acting, then?
Johnny Depp: It is great to have an excuse to be somebody else for a while. I loved playing Edward Scissorhands because there's nothing cynical, jaded or impure about him. It's almost a letdown to look in the mirror and realise I'm not Edward.
Question: Why did you turn down the blockbuster movies Speed and Interview with the Vampire?
Johnny Depp: They're just not the sort of thing that I'm interested in. Everything is keyed around the date the film is being released, about how much money the film makes in its opening weekend. The work itself means nothing - and I think that's sad.
Question: How do you spend your wages?
Johnny Depp: I love art - there's one painting I'd love to get hold of:
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Riding with Death.
Question: You've been accused of being a serial romancer.
Johnny Depp: I was married when I was 20. It was an incredibly strong bond, but I can't say I was necessarily in love. That is something that happens once, maybe twice, in your life - if you are lucky. I don't think I experienced love until I was 30.
Question: When you met Kate Moss?
Johnny Depp: Yes, we were in love from the day we were introduced to each other by a mutual friend in a restaurant.
Question: So why did you break up?
Johnny Depp: We ended up living apart and only talking on the phone every two weeks. I really feel like I blew it with Kate. There's a big part of me that really misses her and I keep wondering why we aren't together, thinking about starting a family.
Question:
Do you want to be a father?
Johnny Depp: Yeah, I have a really traditional view of marriage. I want a family and a house in the country with a couple of dogs and a goldfish.
Question: What's your idea of heaven?
Johnny Depp: I would hope that this is hell, so we can go on to something better.
Question: Do you miss River Phoenix?
Johnny Depp: Yeah, I miss him real bad. He made a fatal mistake with drugs. He came to my club [the Viper Room] that night with his girl on one arm and his guitar in the other. It breaks my heart because he came to play and he didn't think he was going to die - but then nobody ever thinks they are going to die, do they?
