Johnny Depp Gets Hotter With Age
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It’s true.
Take this recent cover of EW, which features Depp.
And, he’s getting ready for another big movie premiere.
Depp is starring in next year’s Public Enemies, in which the elusive superstar will play John Dillinger, one of the most notorious criminals of the 20th century.
Co-starring Christian Bale as federal agent Melvin Purvis and based on a book by Bryan Burrough, Enemies is a cat-and-mouse thriller about the early days of the FBI and one agent’s pursuit of the Depression-era bank robber whose reign of stickups and near escapes ended in a hail of bullets outside of Chicago’s Biograph Theater in 1934.
“Dillinger was one of those guys, like Charlie Chaplin and Evel Knievel, that I was fascinated with at a young age,” says Depp. “And because of my grandfather [who ran moonshine during the Prohibition], the character was pretty easy for me to connect to. In a way, this movie was a salute to him.”
Directed by Michael Mann (Heat), Public Enemies might sound like a blood-soaked chapter of ancient history. But the film’s themes couldn’t be more timely: Dillinger was sticking up banks at a time when people weren’t exactly rooting for them. As a result, he became something larger than life-a rock star with a tommy gun.
”Some people might disagree, but I think he was a real-life Robin Hood,” says Depp. “I mean, the guy wasn’t completely altruistic, but he went out of his way not to kill anybody. He definitely gave a lot of that money away. I love the guy.” Depp even got to wear the pair of pants that Dillinger had on when he was finally caught and riddled with bullets. “It was amazing,” he says. “And-get this-we’re the same size!”
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