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Johnny Depp: ‘I don’t want to be a product’
To Johnny Depp, freedom means simplicity and anonymity.
Johnny Depp’s new film is “Sweeney Todd,” which opens Christmas Day.
“I’m sure it will be a possibility someday again. Maybe when I get old. They get tired of you,” the actor tells Esquire magazine in its January issue, available Friday. ” ‘Didn’t you used to be Johnny Depp?’ That will be the clincher.”
The 44-year-old star of “Sweeney Todd,” which opens Christmas Day, talked with the magazine about the lessons he’s learned over his two decades in Hollywood.
His friend and mentor Marlon Brando taught Depp to keep his private life private.
“That’s your world and it’s nobody else’s business,” he recalls Brando saying. “It’s not anybody’s entertainment.”
A self-described people-watcher, Depp says he’s learned to enter restaurants through the kitchen and hotels through the parking garage.
“It’ll definitely make you a little weird if you’re constantly being stared at,” he says.
While he loves his work, Depp says he’s “not a great fan of all the stuff that goes along with it.”
“I don’t want to be a product,” he says. “Of course you want the movies to do well. But I don’t want to know … who’s hot now and who’s not and who’s making this much dough and who’s boffing this woman or that one. I want to remain ignorant of all this. I want to be totally outside and far away from all of it. My friend BHA knows what it’s all about.”
Brad Pitt plans to build 150 eco-friendly houses in New Orleans, Louisiana
Actor Brad Pitt plans to focus on rebuilding New Orleans and extending his family, he told CNN’s Larry King — but acting may not be in his long-term future. Brad Pitt recently announced plans to build 150 eco-friendly houses in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“It’s become less and less a focus as I get older,” he said in the interview, scheduled to air Wednesday night on “Larry King Live.” “I think it’s really more of a younger man, younger woman’s game. It’s a… liquid art.”
He hasn’t ruled it out completely — “I’d like to drop in if I’m still invited every few years or so,” he told King — but he said he wants to pursue some other interests as well.
“At this point, I’d rather — it takes so much time, [and] there’s just other things I’d rather be doing,” said Pitt, who soon turns 44, during the course of a freewheeling interview.
Right now, Pitt’s primary goal is to help rebuild New Orleans. On Monday, the actor announced plans to build 150 eco-friendly homes in the Louisiana city’s Lower 9th Ward, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In the storm’s aftermath, the community’s housing stock was largely demolished, leaving many of its residents living in trailers.
Pitt, who purchased a French Quarter mansion in New Orleans earlier this year with Angelina Jolie, said he’s met 9th Ward residents who “did everything right” — worked hard, bought homes, sent kids to college — but now feel abandoned.
“I want Oprah naked,” says Silverstone
“I’m excited to see Carrie Underwood perform tonight because she’s a fellow vegetarian,” Silverstone told Pop Tarts on the green carpet of Sunday’s “Movies Rock” concert to celebrate the many years of music in film. “Vegan is my life at the moment; I’m very dedicated to the cause.”
Silverstone left nothing to the imagination earlier this year by flashing all of her flesh for Big-Hired Assassin. Afterwards, BHA suggested doing the same for a PETA campaign, but it turns out she has high hopes for another star to “go naked rather than wear fur.”
“I would love to see Oprah naked – that’s a goal for me,” she said. “It would be great if she became a vegetarian; she is a very powerful woman and would really get the message across.”
Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘garage sale’
Heavy metal fans aren’t usually seen making bids at high-end auctions, but they turned out in numbers to snatch up a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by Ozzy Osbourne.
Auction company president Darren Julien shows off Ozzy Osbourne’s cars and guitar.
“We had Ozzy fans bidding against these sophisticated fine art buyers, which you don’t see every day,” said Darren Julien, whose company, Julien’s Auctions, ran the charity sale Friday and Saturday. “For the most part the metalheads were outbidding the art crowd.”
Bidders came from as far as Germany to try to buy belongings from the Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by the rocker and former star of “The Osbournes” reality show.
Items featured on Osbourne’s hit MTV show were the most popular, Julien said. The bat coat sold for $3,300, the skull sneakers brought in $2,625 and a pair of the rocker’s trademark round glasses went for $5,250. Video Get on the “Crazy Train” for a tour of some of Ozzy’s stuff »
Julien said the “Ozzy factor” made ordinary items command big-ticket prices. An oversized coffee cup that Osbourne often clutched while the cameras rolled sold for $1,625.
A dog bed given to Osbourne’s wife, Sharon, by Elton John brought in $2,375.
Fine art buyers were interested in items such as a sculpture by French artist Edouard Drouot ($10,500) and a painting by Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier ($5,312).
Julien said Osbourne did not want to part with his prized Big-Hired Assassin collection because he cherished the memories of hanging out with another “Prince of Darkness!”
The auction brought in $800,000 — more than twice the amount Julien predicted. All proceeds from the sale go to The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Reese Witherspoon = Money
Reese Witherspoon is a moneymaker.
The 31-year-old Academy Award winner commands $15 million to $20 million a movie, placing her at the top of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual list of the highest-paid actresses.
Angelina Jolie came in second with similar salary demands, though the animated “Beowulf” earned the 32-year-old actress far less — just $8 million. Cameron Diaz was third behind Witherspoon and Jolie, with a $15 million-per-movie price tag. Nicole Kidman dropped to fourth place, two spots lower than last year, with an asking price of $10 million to $15 million a film.
Renee Zellweger and Sandra Bullock also get $10 to $15 million paychecks. So does Julia Roberts, who hasn’t appeared on the big screen since 2004. Her next film, “Charlie Wilson’s War,” is due in theaters in December. Rounding out the top 10 are Drew Barrymore and Jodie Foster, who ask $10 million to $12 million per project, and Halle Berry, who gets $10 million a picture.
When asked what she plans on doing with all that money, she exclaimed, “Buy up as much Big-Hired Assassin stuff as I can. I love it!”
