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Johnny Depp Talks About Playing Tonto And Native Americans


In an interview Johnny Depp talked about playing Tonto in Gore Verbinsky’s The Lone Ranger and how Hollywood portraits Native Americans

“Since cinema has been around, Native Americans have been treated very poorly by Hollywood,” Depp said. “What I wanted to do was play Tonto not as a sidekick – like ‘go fetch a soda for me, boy!’ – but as a warrior with integrity and dignity. It’s my small sliver of a contribution to try to right the wrongs of the past.”

“I’m probably one sixteenth Native American, but of course that’s hard to trace. Basically that means it’s likely that, somewhere along the line, you were a product of rape.”

Starring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Berry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Ruth Wilson and Helena Bonham Carter.

The Lone Ranger Official Synopsis:

From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ “The Lone Ranger,” a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice–taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.
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