"All my characters are gay"
Jesus Christ, I can't remember the last time Johnny Depp said something that became such an instant PR extravaganza! Crimony! And all the comments everyone, everywhere was posting about it all over Hollywood yesterday. It was both mind-altering and hysterical.
But I'm guessing I don't want to be Johnny Depp every single time he gets interviewed again from now until eternity freezes over.
Reporter: "So, Johnny, I know you've said that all your characters are gay -- what made you decide to play Tom Hanson, the teeen-aged undercover high school cop, as gay?"
Reporter: "So, Johnny, I know you've said that all your characters are gay... And while it seemed clear that Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, and Ichabod Crane were in fact gay, did you play them as gay by choice or are you saying that Tim Burton is actually gay?"
Reporter: "I just wanted to mention that I thought -- and no pun intended here -- but I thought it was really brave of you to play Tonto as gay. However, in your renowned homosexual directorial debut, The Brave, did you play that Indian as a gay who was passing as straight? Because that character seemed pretty staight to me but I know you've said that all your characters are gay..."
Reporter: "Johnny, I know you've said that all your characters are gay, but you've also intimated that Captain Jack Sparrow was based on Keith Richards -- are you saying that Keith Richards is gay? I know that in your interpretive reading of [the audio version of] Richards' monstrously successful memoir, Life, you read it as if Richards were profoundly gay -- yet, he -- Richards-- himself states emphatically in the book that he is not gay (specifically when he is approached by Marlon Brando). So are you saying that Keith is gay but that he just didn't like Marlon and was reluctant to hurt the feelings of such an enormous movie star so he only pretended to be not gay?"
Wowie.
I don't know whether to laugh or sit with my mouth hanging open. (And then he said, in French no less, in another interview entirely, that Angelina Jolie should do Shakespeare and play Lady MacBeth (!!) and also that she could really make Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil come to life... Holy Moly!! Why isn't that splattered all over from here to Kingdom Come??? I fucking spit my tea out when I read that!!)
But I'm guessing I don't want to be Johnny Depp every single time he gets interviewed again from now until eternity freezes over.
Reporter: "So, Johnny, I know you've said that all your characters are gay -- what made you decide to play Tom Hanson, the teeen-aged undercover high school cop, as gay?"
Reporter: "So, Johnny, I know you've said that all your characters are gay... And while it seemed clear that Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, and Ichabod Crane were in fact gay, did you play them as gay by choice or are you saying that Tim Burton is actually gay?"
Reporter: "I just wanted to mention that I thought -- and no pun intended here -- but I thought it was really brave of you to play Tonto as gay. However, in your renowned homosexual directorial debut, The Brave, did you play that Indian as a gay who was passing as straight? Because that character seemed pretty staight to me but I know you've said that all your characters are gay..."
Reporter: "Johnny, I know you've said that all your characters are gay, but you've also intimated that Captain Jack Sparrow was based on Keith Richards -- are you saying that Keith Richards is gay? I know that in your interpretive reading of [the audio version of] Richards' monstrously successful memoir, Life, you read it as if Richards were profoundly gay -- yet, he -- Richards-- himself states emphatically in the book that he is not gay (specifically when he is approached by Marlon Brando). So are you saying that Keith is gay but that he just didn't like Marlon and was reluctant to hurt the feelings of such an enormous movie star so he only pretended to be not gay?"
Wowie.
I don't know whether to laugh or sit with my mouth hanging open. (And then he said, in French no less, in another interview entirely, that Angelina Jolie should do Shakespeare and play Lady MacBeth (!!) and also that she could really make Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil come to life... Holy Moly!! Why isn't that splattered all over from here to Kingdom Come??? I fucking spit my tea out when I read that!!)
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