A few years ago, during the making of the actor’s story, Johnny Depp’s longtime partner Tim Burton called his friend “a character actor in the body of the lead male role’s performer.” Johnny Depp came to cinema by chance: his dream from childhood was to become a famous musician. By the will of fate, landing in the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” Depp began going to auditions and over the next thirty years appeared regularly on screens in the most varied roles. Sweeney Todd, Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, the Lone Ranger, Grindelwald, and of course Captain Jack Sparrow—hardly anyone in the world doesn’t know these characters.
Setting his course and not fearing experiments, Johnny Depp confidently walked his own path, and as a result became one of the most respected actors in Hollywood.
This gift edition, written for the actor’s 50th anniversary, is a unique chronicle of his creative life—telling his journey from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” to “Dark Shadows.” “Do you think I’m looking for the strangest thing I can find, and when I find it, I agree to it only because it’s the strangest thing I was able to find? Well, it’s not like that. But I have to admit: what I like is usually not typical.”