Johnny Depp: Cool or Fool?

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Depp, who currently lives in a small village outside of Paris with longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two children, isn't making any plans to settle back in Hollywood. "L.A. is too fast," the onetime hotel wrecker tells the paper. "There is too much of everything, just too much. In France, I can have distance and sort of see the game for what it is, rather than trying to understand it from the inside. I'm not swimming in the soup bowl. I'm not getting overcooked in that big stew pot."

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link

I really really really wish I could watch an old episode of 21 Jump Street right now.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

I have luvved him since 21 Jump Steet, therefore I saw him first...don't try to explain tv viewing figures to me - I SAW HIM FIRST!

― smee (smee), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

Johnny Depp is a fascinating actor! He's fun to look at and has a lot of good traits which I admire. I find him interesting because he literally becomes consumed by his characters, which I think makes the acting better. Some Hollywood actors just walk on the set without even knowing their lines and use their ego as guidance; Johnny actually does his homework.

And there is nothing wrong with living in France to get away from LA! I think it's great that he's so happy with Vanessa and his kids...he seems much more at ease.

I'm not a raging obsessed fan...there are a few films that I wasn't all too impressed with, usually he was the shining star of the movie and the rest sucked (Man Who Cried). He's so angsty and alienated in What's Eating Gilbert Grape that you want to hug him, hilariously sissified in Sleepy Hollow and who knew he'd look so nice in eyeliner as a loveable pirate???

― Beef, Friday, 5 March 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

i love johnny depp he is totally hot and i love all his movies

― Heather Hickman, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

johnny depp is so totally hot i love him he is so cool i also love all the movies hes in my fav is pirates of the caribbean he looks totally hot in it along with secret window he is so totally a good actor and i need to shutup now so goodbye
heather again

― Heather Hickman, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

totally

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

ok one more time i have to say johnny depp is hot but he is also smart and a really good actor and nice ( from wat i'v herd ) and funny and also a little insane but who isent right all humans are at least a little insane and it makes him a better actor and he plays so many different rolls that it makes him totally cool.
heather again again

― Heather Hickman, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

ROS

― !!!! (amateurist), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

i love johnny depp so much! he is so talented and my only goal in life is to meet him to tell him how much i love him....

― crystall spears, Sunday, 21 March 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago) link

Never have fake Googlers been so transparent

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 March 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

erm yeah. one more addition to this thread.

He's filming about 30mins from here!
Hmm maybe he'll want to try the delights of shopping in Oxford in his time off.. maybe not.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

johnny depp is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― 1, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

Depp is the man. He hasn't sold out, only capitalizing on a few big movies in his career-while the "less noticeable" movies are either critically acclaimed or cult-classics. Considering he has been in Hollywood for nearly 20 years, he's never been criticized for being a ham, or an attention basking fag (not to mention the fact that he lives in Cali and France at the same time.) I am not quite sure if I agree that his acting is always "visible," as this is an ambiguous statement with little viability. All actors, especially character actors have "visible" acting characteristics, since they never duplicate the same role, and there's always ingenuity and individuality in all of his roles. He never delivers a false or forced performance, since he becomes absorbed in his characters and, like all truly gifted actors, he takes on every nuance of his characters, making them incredibly true-to-life and believable.All you have to do is quickly survey his films and take note of the grandiose range he has- all of his characters still retain their integrity as unique, one-of-a-kind entities. Also, he's one of the few famous people who can be as reclusive, strange and to himself, but at the same time be a smooth operator-hes banging Vanessa Paradis. How many people associated with Hollywood can retain this image for twenty years and still be taken seriously.(I can't even consider Depp an actual part of the Hollywood machine, since most of his more popular movies were offbeat and smaller budgeted, not the norm in Hollywood.) So that's what I think of the dude.

― John Depp, Thursday, 1 April 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

Johnny Depp is a fool how sometimes lands in the control of a director capable of turning working with this foolness.

-- Horace Mann (handsomishbo...), July 15th, 2003.

what the hell does this mean?

― john depp, Thursday, 1 April 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago) link

For the people who say that Depp is basically gay for being known as a cool guy are hypocrites. How is the guy supposed to be? What would you want him to do to prove to you that he's legit? Wait...Does that even matter? Nope, because he doesn't give a shit what anyone says. He still retains his integrity as Johnny Depp, and will only be who he is and has always been. That's what is fascinating about him. You know that behind his performances is a normal guy who wanted to be a rock star but thought acting was fun too, and now he's an enormous star. Despite what everyone thinks, some "heartthrob" actors have no desire to get sucked into the fame. Sure, he likes being liked and respected, but who the fuck doesn't? But he doesn't go around flaunting anything, and if he wanted to, he would. Read what any director has to say about working with him and you will understand that hes not your conventional actor, he has no easily labeled persona nor does he fit into any specific category. It is this which makes him cool.

― john depp, Thursday, 1 April 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

I saw that interview with Howard Stern where he says to "drop LSD on them". I thought that was funny, not because Johnny did drugs, but because he just answered so frivolously because that is how Howard likes it. Had Depp intended on giving his well-gathered intellecutal thought on the matter he probably would have been on C-Span, not Howard Stern, the most offensive radio show in history.

― Dimbolandagordanivol, Thursday, 1 April 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link

If you think hes fake, then take into account the fact that he never reads anything written about him-aside from movie reviews perhaps, since they're rarely negative or convoluted. What I mean is that he isn't concerned with how the general public views him, and since that is true, there is a discernible genuinness about him that separates him from not only alot of other actors but also people in general.

― sillyasshole, Thursday, 1 April 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

anyone who thinks johnny depp is a fool, you ARE a fool! hes a major hottie. i mean...c'mon, chocolat!!

― Jessica Fitz, Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

this john is not a patch on me.

he causes the chocolat but i cause the pain, innit, word life.

― john c3na (ken c), Thursday, 6 May 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Woo. YOU PPL! HE IS NO FOOL! NO WAY!! NOOHOOOHOO!! C'MON! YOU JEALOUS MEN OUT THERE! YOU KNOW HE ROX! JOHNYY!!!! WHY VANESSA PARADIS!!!! WHY!? HOW>>> HOW COME!! I.. I have NOTHING... against her *cough* But OMG!!!!!! WHY!!? Oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, THIS PEOPLE! THIS! THIS SHOWS TO PROVE THAT HE DOESNT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THE PERSONALITY! HA! HE IS A GOOD PERSON!!! shes not.. whore, i know what she wanted out of this... But seriously! DAMNNNN!!!! PIRATES! SCISSORHANDS! HOTT!!!!! SLEEPY HOLLOW! CRYBABY DON JUAN DIABLO! BENNY AND JOON! OMGOMGOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMGOMGOMGOM PPL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JOHNNY DEPP! YOU AND I MAY BE 25 YEARS APART! BUT... BUT WE WERE MEANT TO.. MEET EACHOTHER!!!! .. I want to be his best friend ^_^

SO CUTE HOW YE NAMED YER SON JACK AND LILYROSE!!! HOW THE WEATHER IN FRANCE!? HUH! I HATE IT HERE IN ILLINOIS... damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn can you imagine having a winterday after a summerday over.. and over.... and over... GOOD NIGHT JOHNNY SEXY SEXY!!!

Stitch says hi, spongebob says wassap and he said you'de know what he meant when I told you he said hes ready.. WINK WINK, and Puss In Boots says "Donkey attemped rape me twice. Help. Oh. No. Not again."
Yes...
Zim says he will find you for me on his way around the world to take it over. Gir says 'bark'. . . yeah.. NIGHT NIGHT BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP CHARMING IN YOUR NEXT MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Donna Crane, Thursday, 27 May 2004 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll have what she's having.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 27 May 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link

that was incredibly intense

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link

She doesn't mention Ed Wood, she's not a real fan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link

He is lucky because he is Morrissey's neighbor. But he moved to France, so I wonder, did he sell his L.A. house?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm still trying tofigure out how Johnny Depp has the perfect face for a horror movie, never mind Donna.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Mary I actually purchased Morrissey's new album, I mean not because of the Jools Holland performance which was quite well but because it actually includes song titles like "The World is Full of Crashing Bores" and "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel", it is like Morrissey has become a MorrisseyBOT. "Perfect Face For a Horror Flick" should b e on his next album.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I knew your recant was not to be trusted, dirty girl. Meanwhile, if JD doesn't live in that house anymore, maybe I could move there, and keep watch for the Porsche?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link

do you think if we pooled together our bank accounts we could afford the house? I have like $5000! it's a good start yeah?

― Allyzay, Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Carey's been wanting to set up house for a while, and F. could be the Moz imposter and otherwise entertain us in the dark days when Morrissey goes on his endless world-domination tours. The house on Kings Road in MCR may be more within our budget thought, sigh.

MBOT probably wrote the closer, "You Know I Couldn't Last" for you.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I will be quite chuffed if he did! He looks very dashing on the cover of this album! Dashing well-dressed gentlemen should all write songs for me!

― Allyzay, Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Johnny's house looks a bit grand. Maybe we can just camp out on the street and you can program the Mozbot for Operation Perfect Face for A Horror Flick, taking special care to remove any deadly lawyer/liar/judge/jury/policeman/northern leeaches bugs.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link

only if I can sing "Speedway" at him while I'm preparing him for the Horror Flick Face. All of those rumoooouuuurs keeping me grounded, I never said, I never said that they were compleeeetely unfounded....

― Allyzay, Thursday, 27 May 2004 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link

He awaits Ally's advice from his bedroom.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Morrissey enjoys Steve McQueen, I have heard, as do I; perhaps we could fast become friends and have adventures out in the Tijuana "suburbs" wastelands? Of course you are invited Mary. We shall just travel, maybe like create a Polyphonic Spree type band, except sad and less Jesus-y.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 27 May 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link

You people have put much thought into this. Well done. (Ally's thoughts on an infinitely superior Polyphone Spree deserves praise).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I tried to make F get a more Morrissey haircut in London but he said his head was not big enough to pull it off. But he did try.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

c, you are a liar. It's you who wants to grow F's hair out. More Shaun Ryder than Moz.

Morrissey used the I Kill You With Guns McQueen backdrop in one of his tours, and in a recent interview, I think it was this picture that was up in his house. Everything is coming full circle.

So no one knows if JD still lives there? What kind of lame board is this?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I was meeting him halfway! If he had to cut the hair, I wanted it to be Moz.

Johnny Depp= cool.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 27 May 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Here's where JD's house is:

6. MANSION OWNED BY JOHNNY DEPP (high on the hillside just west of Sweetzer Avenue)

When actor Johnny Depp bought this 29-room mansion in 1995, some entertainment magazines reported that it was once owned by Bela Lugosi and that the Munchkins stayed there during the filming of The Wizard of Oz. Hollywood historian Laurie Jacobson insists that neither claim is correct, and that the castle only looks like the type of home the one-time Dracula star might have lived in.

In fact, the castle was once owned by Hersee Moody Carson, the childless widow of a multimillionaire, and it was called the “Castle of the Fairy Lady” because she used to hold parties there for orphans on major holidays during the 1930s and 1940s. Before Depp shelled out $2.3 million for the gated estate, it was owned by divorce attorney Michael Mitchelson, who lost it in a bankruptcy after being convicted of tax fraud.

What you can see from Sunset, behind thick foliage, is the backside of the mansion. The front entrance is on North Sweetzer Avenue.

Is this hard to find? Can someone from L.A. take me to the next door residence please?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Johnny Depp, the star best known for his starring roles in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Pirates of the Caribbean, is making his most unexpected career move yet - to BBC Radio 2.
The actor will briefly join the ranks of Terry Wogan and Humphrey Lyttelton when he presents a one-off documentary about the Hollywood movie legend James Dean. Depp follows in the footsteps of Brad Pitt, who narrated a documentary about Nick Drake for the station last year.
The Depp documentary, which will be broadcast on September 27, is timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Dean's death at the wheel of his Porsche in 1955.
"Johnny Depp highlights the artistic passion that drove this country boy [Dean] from rural Indiana to become a 20th century icon," said the BBC.
Johnny Depp on James Dean is part of the station's autumn line-up of programming, which also includes specials featuring Sir Paul McCartney and Val Kilmer.
The former Beatle returns to Studio 2 at Abbey Road for an "intimate journey through his songwriting history". Kilmer will present a documentary about Marlon Brando.
The BBC revealed that Chris Evans's new Saturday afternoon show will become the first Radio 2 programme to be made available as a download and podcast.

Radio 2 will also host the world premiere broadcast of the first musical collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, The Likes of Us.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw somewhere that he and Burton were talking about doing a high-class porn film.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

I really don't like him. Why does everyone love him so much? And especially, why do people think he's hot? He's NOT. And never was.

― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Thursday, 4 March 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Well argued.

― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Friday, 5 March 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Johnny Depp is a movie star. This means something entirely different than being an actor. You can be both at the same time, but even though I have mixed and ambiguous feelings about Depp's acting ability, there is no question in my mind he's a great movie star.

I don't belittle that, either. It takes a lot of talent to be a great movie star, not just good cheekbones. Shit, if cheekbones were all it took, every fashion model would be a movie star.

― Aimless, Friday, 5 March 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link

hated him for years because of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qbbIgG87vU

― he often deploys multiple browsers and constantly replies to himself (velko), Friday, 5 March 2010 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Sorta cool.
Pirate Johnny Depp makes surprise school visit

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 8 October 2010 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link

As broken by newsround!

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 8 October 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link

I much prefer watching newsround than the actual BBC news these days. Much less depressing.

― on the cusp of eligibility (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 8 October 2010 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

I just want everybody to be clear

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/24/johnny-depp-dead-rip-its_n_434569.html

― dayo, Sunday, 25 September 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link

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