Johnny Depp on Tonight Show 07/13/05

[Jack2]

Ahoy Mates,

Johnny Depp will be on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight (Wed). He will be talking about his new movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Jack II

[Black Syren]

Im so going to watch. Nice pic in your info. And nice saying..I liked it too but changed mine up a wee bit. Nice to meet ye Jack 2.

[Charity]

It's not on CNN is it..

I'll have to check

[Jonathan Hawks]

Well, e was already on the Oprah show wit the same thing. Just can't see em as some wussy faced non pirate. That movie just looks bad.

[tishsparrow]

i missed it!!! what happened??? all i saw was the commercial, and hesaid something about playing a girl! tell me what happened!

[Black Syren]

LOL it was funny..or rather he was. Had the Jack Sparrow beard or rather goatee started and his gold teeth. I don't know who dressed him..That was an odd site. He walks out and everyone just screams. He has quite a sense of humor for they talked about germs. Can't remember how that got started. Said Tim likes for him to be in his movies so he can laugh at him..There was one instance in filming CatCF that he was running and fell. He said it was really quiet except for Tim's laughing. As for the woman part..They were talking about him dancing and he said he was not good at dancing and as Wonka he had to do some in the film. Leno asked that if it were some big stage production..*cant remeber which..>.<* Would he learn to dance..he replied only if he could be the girl. He has a really great sense of humor..at least I thought so. So cant wait for PotC2 & 3!!!!!!!

[Black Hearted Pearl]

Leno asked JD if they were to do a "Chicago 2" and asked JD to be in it, would he do it? To which JD replied, "Only if I can play the girl."

On the Keith Richards rumor, it is still that, a rumor. To my knowledge, KR has not signed on to be Capt. Jack's father. Yet, JD seeems to still be pushing for it. It remains to be seen.

[dasNdanger]

For the enjoyment of all, Depp’s interview on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno:

*Introduction*

Depp: Thank you.

Leno: Thanks for coming.

Depp: Thank you for having me.

*lots of screaming – Depp is looking to Leno for help*

Leno: Well, let’s talk to the guy. *Johnny laughs* Looking through your bio, you used to be a mechanic?

Depp: In a way…yeah…in a way. Yeah…I was a…I was a gas station attendant, and I…so I used to pump gas and the whole thing, and then one day the owner of the place came out and said, “You’re going to work in the garage, now.” And I tried….to stop him…from allowing me to do that.

Leno: Had you had any experience working on cars?

Depp: No. No, I knew absolutely nothing about cars. Uh, and then I, you know…I ended up…he said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll show you”. So I did like, wheel alignments and all this stuff, until…one day… I did what I thought was a terrific wheel alignment, you know, changed all the tires and uh, put all the lugs back on. The guy took off around the corner, and his left front wheel just…shot off. *laughs” That was the end of my career as a mechanic.

Leno: Did you get fired?

Depp: Oh yeah! Oh yeah…

Leno: I was a fan before, but when I saw what you drove in here today, now of course, I’m a huge, huge fan…

Depp: Oh, the Packard.

Leno: A ’35 Packard, all original car – beautiful! *show picture* See, the cool thing is it’s original – not something that’s been all spiffed up – it’s just a nice original car. See, that car suits you, it has a nice patina to it…

Depp: It does have a nice patina…it’s got a better patina than I do.

Leno: I know you were friends with Hunter Thompson.

Depp: Oh yeah.

Leno: Tell people a little about him.

Depp: Um…let’s see…Hunter S. Thompson was…IS…still one of the most important writers in the 20th century, as far as I’m concerned. He wrote the classic book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas…which was made into a film, and um…he was a great, great man…

Leno: He had an interesting last request, and I understand you’re going to help fulfill it?

Depp: Yeah, yeah…we’re going to give it our best shot, as it were. *snickers* Hunter’s last request - his last wish - was to be…to have his remains fired out of a 150-foot cannon.

Leno: Where does one get a 150-foot cannon. A regular cannon you might find…

Depp: You might. Yeah, that’s the weird thing – you have to build the cannon. You have to actually design and engineer and build a cannon…for Hunter.

Leno: And you’re going to do it?

Depp: Yeah. Wouldn’t you? You kinda have to…yeah.

Leno: You have to ride a Vincent Black Shadow when you get there.

Depp: Maybe…

Leno: The motorcycle in the book…

Depp: Yeah, yes it was.

Leno: Where do you aim a 150-foot cannon – at some corporate headquarters somewhere – what direction?

Depp: I think straight into the stratosphere – just to the stars, yeah.

Leno: When will that happen?

Depp: Sometime in the very, very near future.

Leno: How about you? Any final requests…would you want anything like that?

Depp: No, you know, that’s…I…I…I…I’d probably want, I liked a little more subtle…

Leno: More subtle? Maybe a 25-foot cannon?

Depp: Yeah.

Leno: You don’t have that cannon envy thing going …

Depp: Be put into the eye of the Statue of Liberty or something like that…

Leno: I heard you were approaching Keith Richards to play your dad (in POTC) – have you had any luck with that?

Depp: Well, it’s looking good. It’s looking very good, actually, yeah. I mean, he’s got a…got a little tour to do with the Rolling Stones, but uh…

Leno: Did you know him before that?

Depp: I…um…ah…not before the Stones, no.

Leno: No, not before the Stones. I mean, before POTC. *laughs* You weren’t even born when the Stones went on tour.

Depp: You’ve got a point there.

Leno: Did you know him before Pirates.

Depp: Prior to that...oh yeah, yeah. I’d uh…known him on and off for a number of years. He’s really…he’s always been a very sweet, sweet man.

Leno: You think he’ll play your dad?

Depp: I think it’s…it’s looking very good….I think it’s going to work out. Very exciting.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

Leno: Welcome back. Did you watch Willy Wonka as a kid?

Depp: Oh sure, yeah, yeah – loved it…every year.

Leno: You watch it every year?

Depp: Well no, when I was a kid. I stopped that. *chuckles*

Leno: How do you read a Tim Burton script – do you just trust him?

Depp: Yeah, when…when we…when Tim approached me about this, I…I didn’t even...there wasn’t a script, you know. He just started to talk about this…uh…this idea and I just stopped him in mid-sentence and said, you know, ‘I’m there, I’m in’.

Leno: So you just trust him?

Depp: Oh yeah. I’d do whatever he wanted.

Leno: What was the jungle scene, I heard there was some trouble shooting that.

Depp: Oh yeah. Uhm…well, it wasn’t so much trouble. I mean, there was…there was…kind of a jungle…sound stage…they built this really amazing sort of triple canopy jungle, and uh…I’m being chased by this massive, sort of wasp-beast thing, you know, swooping down at me, and uh…I have to run away. So I’m running…*laughs*…running through the jungle with a machete and stuff, and um, the next thing – ‘cause ya do – and the next thing you know, I’m just down, just flat. I just went down, I guess my lace, my boot lace, got caught on something, and I went face down. So, before you hear cut, I just heard incessant giggling, and it was Tim. I am starting to feel like that’s why he puts me in his movies, so that…he can laugh at me, you know.

Leno: Did that stay in?

Depp: I don’t know, I’m not sure…no, I haven’t seen it. I’m not sure if they kept that in…

Leno: Your character is a germophobe. Are you like that?

Depp: Well, I think that after you have kids, you become that.

Leno: Really?

Depp: Yeeeaaah.

Leno: You mean because of the kids – you afraid for the kids, or for yourself?

Depp: Well, no, no, just uh…uh, I mean, no, I don’t fear my children. *laughs* No, but I mean after you change a couple of diapers, you don’t want to make a tuna sandwich, or something like that. You know what I mean, you starting thinking about things like that…

Leno: ESPECIALLY a tuna sandwich…

Depp: You know what I mean. I could have said pastrami…

Leno: Like when you leave a restroom, are you one of those guys who touches the door like this - *gestures with elbow* - or do you just grab it?

Depp: I’ve never done that. But uh…no, but now it’s in my head and I’ll probably do it. Or maneuvering it with my boot - *lifts foot and demonstrates* - or something.

Leno: Here’s another thing – if you go into a bar and there’s a bowl of peanuts…

Depp: Bad news.

Leno: You won’t eat the peanuts?

Depp: Bad news. There was a study done - *clears throat* - this will change your life, by the way. This will change your life. There was a study done where they tested a…an ordinary bowl of peanuts, uh…on…at a bar. Twenty-seven different kinds of urine.

Leno: Are you talking about bars where people just urinate in the bowl of peanuts, I don’t know what kind of bars you’re going to!

Depp: *laughs* No, that’s home!

Leno: You talking about people who use the restroom and don’t wash their hands and come back and eat the peanuts?

Depp: That kind of deal …I’m assuming, yes. Yeah, change your life, right?

Leno: I root through and try to find a peanut without the urine.

Depp: Yeah, the clean one.

Leno: Would you use the pay phone?

Depp: Yeah.

Leno: Or would you go like this - *pulls coat over hand to protect it*

Depp: Well, I might now.

Leno: I’m giving you a lot of good tips! You’re not one of those Purell guys, squirt the thing in your hand?

Depp: The, the… *rubs hands together* no, not yet, but… it’s probably coming.

Leno: You dance in this film as well. Are you a good dancer?

Depp: I’m really not. You know, once again I think it’s one of those things that Tim…just to torture me. Yeah, yeah. Because he knows that I, you know, that that’s one of the things I fear most in life – is…is dancing. Oh yeah, it’s just not my thing.

Leno: Would you ever confront your fears? Let’s say they want to do Chicago 2, and they want you – the ultimate challenge – could you learn to dance for that film, if you had to?

Depp: If I could play the girl part.

*everyone laughs *

Leno: Can you explain this clip we are going to see?

Depp: This is the inventing room.

*they show a clip from the film*

Leno: Did you model this character after anyone in particular?

Depp: Um…you know what I…what I…when I was trying to come up with the…with the character of Wonka, I started, I started thinking about um…these memories of, sort of, children’s show hosts when I was a kid, you know. You know like, guys like Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, you know, Mr. Rogers, all that kind of stuff. And I was thinking about - I mean, my memory of them is, even at the age of 5 or 6 - thinking my god they talk weird, you know, because there’s that whole sort of, ‘Hello children, how are you?’ It’s really unnerving. So I sort of…I kind of took a little bit of that…and um, and then I was thinking about game show hosts, you know...that sort of…

Leno: Kind of like a Bob Lang, Captain Kangaroo thing?

Depp: Yeah, Wink Martindale, you know.

Farewells and thank yous were exchanged amid rabid fangirl screaming, and Depp left the stage.

~ finis ~

[CaptainCiaran]

What a great show it must have been!

Thank ye, das, fer posting (typing) all that. Ray, a drink fer dasNdanger fer her efforts. Cheers!

[dasNdanger]

It was a good show - and good interview. Depp, although fidgety as usual, actually seemed more relaxed than he usually does doing these interviews. I remember his 2003 Leno interview, I swear he was gonna hurl everytime he opened his mouth!! But this time around it looks like he's finally getting the hang of these talk show gigs.

When he first came out the fangirls were screaming so much, they kept going on and on, and finally Depp looked at Leno as if to say, 'I'm sorry for all of this - can you please make them stop?'...

It took me over two hours to type all that up this morning...I wanted to make sure I got most of Depp's 'uhs, yeahs, kinda ofs, and you knows'...anyone who has ever heard his halting speech knows that those little 'word whiskers' are what makes his delivery special. I'm not even sure he totally completed a single sentence or thought!!

Check out some of the Depp fan sites, especially http://www.johnnydepp-zone.com - they might have links to the video of this interview.

das

[Black Syren]

All I know is that is was hilarious..And he did seem more comfortable in his skin..He's a real character. seems very down to earth despite being so shy.

[Black Hearted Pearl]

It took me over two hours to type all that up this morning...I wanted to make sure I got most of Depp's 'uhs, yeahs, kinda ofs, and you knows'...anyone who has ever heard his halting speech knows that those little 'word whiskers' are what makes his delivery special. I'm not even sure he totally completed a single sentence or thought!!

Check out some of the Depp fan sites, especially http://www.johnnydepp-zone.com - they might have links to the video of this interview.

das

That is why a "quote" is sometimes "good enough". However, I'm sure you posted this information also on the www.johnnydepp-zone.com website as well....so two birds with stone, eh?

[tishsparrow]

the reason i was so interested was i only caught a bit of the commercial for it, all i heard was him say "play a girl" and i remember my friend sent me a list of movies he was in and is signed up to be in, and one had a girls name as the character, but probably the characters last name, so... oops, im rambling again. had too much sugar. anyway... did you see the cupcakes? the wonka ones? theyre PURPLE! i love purple! theyre CHOCOLATE and purple!!! huzzah! purple! ugh, too hyper, bye!