Look, I really like and enjoy Johnny Depp, but there is absolutely NO reason for him to be on the cover of Vanity Fair AGAIN. He was just on the January cover! Meaning VF made him cover boy twice in 11 months! WTF? Vanity Fair has just become the magazine that puts dead celebrities, dead politicians and Johnny Depp on their covers. That being said, the cover shot hasn?t been released yet - we?ve only got the header image, which was shot by Terry Richardson, because that?s how Depp rolls. Anyway, I suppose Depp is promoting The Rum Diary, that film that sees him doing his Hunter Thompson impression again (but it looks really awesome). Here are the VF highlights:
He?s Hollywood?s best-paid actor, but he doesn?t have to like it: ?Basically, if they?re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I?m going to take it,? he says in Vanity Fair?s November issue. ?I have to. I mean, it?s not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it?s for my kids. It?s ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It?s for the kids.?
He admits, with much difficulty, that there is also ?a part of me that needs to have this kind of stimulation to the brain.? (Depp is ever mum on the size of his Pirates ransom, but a report this summer cited his total take in the $300 million range, due to a gross-profit-sharing deal brokered with Disney. The four-film franchise has tallied $3.7 billion to date in worldwide receipts.)
But Nick Tosches, Depp friend of a decade and writer of this month?s cover profile, says the Rum Diary actor is ?the same old Johnny? who pumped gas to make ends meet and for a period attended Scientology study groups because they paid $3 per meeting.
?I went to a bunch, man. It was so great, it was so fantastic,? Depp says.
Today, compliments from rock idols mean more to the actor than cash. During the interview, Tosches shared with Depp that their mutual buddy Keith Richards, the professed inspiration behind Captain Jack Sparrow, had ?beautiful things to say? about Depp?s singing in Sweeney Todd. ?He never told me that,? Depp says, touched. Take that one to the bank.
[From Vanity Fair]
Page Six had some highlights from Johnny?s interview too - and it?s like he?s channeling Kristen Stewart, I swear to God. Remember the controversy last year when she compared having her photo taken by paparazzi to ?being raped?? K-Stew later had to apologize and clarify. Well, Johnny takes it a step further than Kristen Stewart. Ridiculous.
Despite being one of the world?s most handsome men, Johnny Depp hates photo shoots so much, he compares them to violent sexual assault. He tells Nick Tosches in Vanity Fair, ?Well, you just feel like you?re being raped somehow. Raped ? It feels like a kind of weird ? just weird, man.? He?ll pose with fans, ?But whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it?s like ? you just feel dumb. It?s just so stupid.?
Depp says his next project, ?The Rum Diary,? came straight out of Hunter S. Thompson?s basement. He was staying with the writer researching the 1998 movie ?Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? when they came upon Thompson?s forgotten novel in boxes in his basement. ?I pulled it out. I was like ?What is this?? Hunter was like, ?Oh, [bleep], ?The Rum Diary? ? Hunter didn?t know it was there.?
Depp prides himself on edgy projects. But he?s finally settled his grudge against Harvey Weinstein for putting his 2004 ?The Libertine?? in limited release: ?He basically said he [bleep]ed it ? He made a choice to kill it, Harvey killed a great film.?
[From Page Six]
Okay, just shoot me because I think Kristen Stewart?s old comments were more reasonable than Johnny?s. Kristen was talking about the violation of privacy from the paparazzi, and she compared THAT to rape. Johnny is comparing photo shoots to rape - as in, being beautifully lit, wearing makeup and being told that you?re pretty and you should turn to the light - that?s like ?you?re being raped somehow???? Ridiculous.
Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair and WENN.
Written by Kaiser
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24 Responses to ?Johnny Depp covers Vanity Fair, compares photo shoots to ?rape??
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He should shut the hell up and take his photoshopped bloat face back to France. He hasn?t made a good movie in more than a decade.
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OK, it may feel like an ?invasion? but I highly doubt it?s as violent an invasion as rape.
Oh, Johnny?no.
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Okay, just shoot me because I think Kristen Stewart?s old comments were more reasonable than Johnny?s.
No, I won?t shoot you because?I agree with that. I still think she put her foot in her mouth when she decided to compare rape with anything else* but it was still better than this (by Depp).
*Honestly, people should stop comparing rape with anything other than?rape. Rape is an extreme form of both physical and psychological violence. It scars the victims for the rest of their lives.
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Okay, now, so its okay to whore yourself out for a big paycheck by being in a trash movie, a ?stupid movie?, but a photo shoot is a sexual assault? Really, Johnny, really???
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Okay, now, so its okay to whore yourself out for a big paycheck by being in a trash movie, a ?stupid movie?, but a photo shoot is a sexual assault? Really, Johnny, really???
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Don?t forget Natalie Portman comparing eating meat to rape.
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He compares photoshoots to rape but has no problem defending Roman Polanski who raped a 13 year old girl. That?s Hollywood logic.
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Yeah the money?s just for the kids man?the yacht is just for the kids..the estate in france is just for the kids..he gets no pleasure/enjoyment use from the money whatsoever!!!! dumbass!
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Ryan Gosling should have been on that cover.
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Why Johnny why?! Rape is too serious to be throwing the word around like that! Ugh.
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Depp is another one of those celebrities that everyone forgives for saying and doing really dumb things. He will just be called ?cool? and protecting his privacy.
If he hates photo shoots, then don?t do them. However, it is a part of the job he chose, so he, like Bettany yesterday, should get over it. But to compare this to rape is just plain wrong and he deserves backlash for it.
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I bet the studios feel ?rape? when they have to pay him an outrageous amount of money for his over the top performances.
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1/many guys dislike to be taken in pics
2/i have nothing against Depp but he only does Vanity Fair and only give interview for Vanity Fair
3/i know a french journalist (always the same) who complained during PUBLIC ENEMIES promotion about Depp because he came for the french premiere but he spoke no journalist whereas Bale was in promotion for TERMINATOR one month before and he talked also about PUBLIC ENEMIES (for him,it?s Mann, Bale & Cotillard who promoted PE in France)
4/Johnny ,there are some other directors than Burton or Pirate?s director! -
I like Johnny, but if he doesn?t like posing for magazines then don?t. I?m really getting sick of ALL of these celebrities complaining about making millions and how they loose their privacy, quit the business if you don?t like it. By the way Johnny you owe me $7.50 for that last Pirates it sucked.
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Doing it for the kids? Really?!!
Why put himself through all the ?photo-rape? trauma when he?s so rich that if he never makes another film they?re hardly going to starve to death. Unless, y?know, he actually loves the fame and adulation like all the other ?celebrities? who won?t quit showbusiness?
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Yeah comparing menial things to rape is starting to get ridiculous but I must say Johnny Depp is aging rather well to me:-) I love when he looks all cleaned up!
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Actors should be seen & not heard.
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Johnny STFU! What an ass - agree 100% with Eve.
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one might be a tad bit up his own arse perhaps? if kristen stewart or lindsey lohan had said that?it would be ?off with her head?!!!!
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@Chloe Where do you live where you only paid 7.50 for a movie?
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I think some of these celebs complain the way that they do because they?ve not really been through anything difficult in so long, if ever, that their view of what?s actually hard in life is completely warped. To Depp a photo shoot is probably the hardest thing he does all year.
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?One of the world?s most handsome men?. BWAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!!!! I couldn?t keep a straight face whilst reading that. Maybe if he was the only man on Earth? I mean, the guy looks like a middle-aged Puerto Rican lesbian intellectual who teaches part-time Philosophy courses at some less-than prestigious University. Not hot. Not hot at all.
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I agree with you on this. Kristen Stewart had a very valid point but Johnny just sounds to self-absorbed in this. I also agree with gloaming: this should have been Ryan Gosling on the cover anyway.
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he?s just too weird. great actor. but crazy. most creative types are though. take U.S.A. money and spend it on the french economy. wonderful. hope he doesnt vote here.
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