Johnny Depp: In Depp
Q: Give me your take on why young, rich movie star-type guys pay for sex.
A: Let's say there's a young guy who's successful, famous, rich, da-dah-dah, can have anything he wants anywhere in the world. We presume. At the same time, this fellow could meet a girl in a bar and say, "God, you're great, let's go make out," and they just go slobber. In his brain, he's thinking, maybe he would like to see her again. Maybe this girl that he met has a slightly ambitious side to her, a devious kind of thing where she starts twisting things around. The next thing you know, this girl says, "This motherfucker raped me," and all he knows is that, "We felt each other's tongues, all right." Let's say the tabloids get hold of it and say, "Well, he fucking did it," and that spins around for a few days or weeks and, bing, the guy's guilty in the eyes of the world before he even has a chance to speak.
Q: So, could you see yourself paying for sex?
A: No, that's not my thing, paying for sex. Even if I did, I wouldn't talk about it. You're in a certain position, you gotta be careful, you gotta be smart, you gotta think a little bit. And the first thing is: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever. This is a rumor-fueled society.
Q: It's a weird time to be famous.
A: It's a weird time to do anything. Not only do you have to worry about screwing and wearing condoms and shit like that, you have to worry about kissing, about being sneezed on and your fucking flesh rotting off. It's violence and shit everywhere.
Q: I heard that you and Kate went to Magic Mountain the other day. How did you, being so recognizable, pull that off?
A: It was a slow day, and we went early, just after the park opened. We went on all the scariest rides we could get on and they were killer, man. It's a strange thing. You don't want to go to the front of the line, but if a line is real long and you stand in it, you end up not being able to talk to the person you're with--you end up signing autographs. The people who run the park found out we were there and asked, "Do you wanna go to the front?" which I didn't, but there was no other way. I love Magic Mountain.
Q: Speaking of roller-coaster rides, tell me how disorienting it was to find yourself attending this year's Oscar ceremony?
A: There I was. Jesus, I still don't know why. I figured, "Well, fuck it, maybe I'll just see what it's like, you know?" It was Fellini on intense psilocybin, the company picnic gone absolutely screwy. Everybody pretends to know each other. You've never met each other and it's, you know, "Hey, howya doin'?" It was so much like a circus that I was howling. I was really nervous. I'm backstage, pacing around, desperate to smoke a cigarette in this politically correct climate. I just wanted to fill my lungs with smoke. Then I met Al Pacino back there and he was really cool, telling me, "This is awful, isn't it?" It made me feel better because I love Al Pacino. But when I was gonna walk out and do the thing, I didn't know if I was gonna drop, pass out completely, just spontaneously combust, or projectile vomit into the audience. Apparently, I got the words out fairly clearly, went outside, smoked, got into the car and split. I was real freaked out.
Q: You had a few things to say last time we talked about the kind of career Tom Cruise has. Have you met him?
A: I actually met him at the Academy Awards. He came up and said, "Hi Johnny, how are you?" I said, "Hi Tom, how are you doing?" He said, "This is my wife, Nicole," and I said, "How do you do, Nicole? Nice to meet you." And everybody went about their business, I wiped off my shoe and he wiped off his jacket [laughing]. No, he was actually sweet.
Q: You haven't bought a house yet, right? But I know you like to buy antiques, first-edition books, vintage stuff. So does your place these days look like Charles Foster Kane's home--full of treasures in crates?
A: Right on the money. I haven't bought a home yet and I don't know if, when I do, it's going to be here in the states. It may be in France somewhere. I buy a lot of paintings and drawings and some photographs, shit like that. It's good to have things around that feed you. One of the greatest things that Vincent Price, really a fucking sweet man, very, very smart, ever told me was: "Buy art." That's a piece of advice that I'll treasure forever.
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