For younger audience’s actor Johnny
Depp is that actor that is always playing those weird, “out there” characters,
but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Depp is one of the most versatile
actors of his generation, from hero to villain, from “biopics” to fiction, from
comedy to drama to musical, from live action to animation, if there is one
thing we can say about him is that he is stuck in a routine. Yes I know that in
his last couple of films he has played “out there” characters, but that doesn’t
change the fact that he has more than enough talent to tackle every genre of
film and every type of character.
It’s not a secret that more often
than not the actor is playing an eccentric character in one of director’s Tim
Burton’s movies as both of them have collaborated a total of eight times from Edward
Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse
Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland to
Dark Shadows.
But the actor also worked with
other directors more than once, like Lasse Hallstrom with What’s Eating Gilbert
Grape and Chocolate. Terry Gilliam with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus or director Gore Verbinski in the first three
movies of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Rango and The Lone Ranger.
Depp also worked with Wes Craven,
Oliver Stone, John Waters, Emir Kusturica, Jeremiah S. Chechik, Jeremy Leven,
Jim Jarmusch, John Badham, Mike Newell, Roman Polanski, Rand Ravich, Sally
Potter, Julian Schnabel, Ted Demme, the Hughes brothers, Robert Rodriguez,
David Koepp, Marc Forster, Laurence Dunmore, Michael Mann, Florian Henckel von
Donnersmarck, Rob Marshall, Bruce Robinson and perhaps more importantly than
all these directors is himself as Depp has also take the leap and sat behind
the camera as director in The Brave.
The actor was nominated three
times for best actor at the Oscar’s, ten times for the Golden Globes, winning
once for Sweeney Todd and another three times at the BAFTA’s.
The currently has six projects
going, Mortdecai, Into the Woods, Transcendence, London Fields, Alice in
Wonderland 2 and Black Mass.
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