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'You're weird, dad' - Depp's son
05/09/2005 09:31 - (SA)
Tokyo - Johnny Depp has been branded an eccentric for playing a recluse with scissors for hands and a delusional Don Juan. This time his own son is calling him a weirdo for his role as crazy candy man Willy Wonka.
The Hollywood heartthrob said he invited his children to watch him dress up in his slick jacket and top hat to shoot Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the latest film version of British writer Roald Dahl's kids classic.
Depp, in Tokyo on Sunday ahead of the Japanese release of Tim Burton's movie, said his three-year-old son was astonished and told his dad, "You are really weird".
Depp said he felt responsible to the late Dahl's own family to stay true to the popular story, in which poor boy Charlie joins the world's brats on a rare tour of Willy Wonka's magical world of chocolate.
"I did feel a deep sense of responsibility to the author's intent of what he may have wanted the character to be like and to live like," said Depp.
The movie is Depp's fourth collaboration with Tim Burton, who directed 1990's Edward Scissorhands which paved the actor's transition from teen roles to more idiosyncratic fare.
Hundreds of screaming young women tried unsuccessfully to barge into the press conference for a glance at Depp, who has two children with French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis.
- AFP
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