"I don't want to do the dark things anymore"–an interview with Johnny Depp

As Public Enemies is released around the world, new interviews with Johnny Depp are popping up in foreign media–lovely surprises to entertain us while we’re waiting for word about Johnny’s next project. The German site 20Minuten is showing some video clips (in English) of an interview their reporter conducted with Johnny at the Public Enemies press junket in Chicago in June. Here is a sample of that interview:

Q: When you look back at all the movies you’ve done . . . if you close your eyes and see that colorful array of characters, from their costumes to their diversity, does it bring you joy to know that you’ve had that eclectic career? And that you’ve achieved that?

Johnny Depp: I’ve been so lucky. I’ve been so lucky to have been able . . . I mean, from Cry-Baby to Edward Scissorhands to–all the way down the road, you know . . . it’s been a real joyful ride, and an honor to have inhabited these beings.

Q: Is there a genre that you prefer doing? That you’ve realized you have more fun playing? A type of film?

Johnny Depp:
I’ve decided . . . you know, at a certain point I thought, you know what? That I don’t want to do anything that I am not going to be able to laugh, or make someone laugh, you know . . . . I can’t and I don’t want to do the dark things anymore. I don’t want to just do heavy, sort of [searching for the right word] gravitas anymore. I prefer just being able to giggle. And make someone else giggle.

Q: Like your children?

Johnny Depp:
Yeah.

The Zone thanks Emma for sharing the interview and Christopher for posting downloads on our Video Clips forum. Thanks also to AnaMaria for the screencap of Johnny; to see a larger version, CLICK HERE. –Part-Time Poet

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