Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Ed Wood… We can no longer count the successes of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton. But one of them almost happened without the American actor who was impressed by the huge stars vying to star in this 1990s hit.
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After the boxes of Beetlejuice And BatmanTim Burton began directing the film Edward Scissorhandsto see or rewatch on Disney+. Before Johnny Depp was cast in the feature film, other actors had been considered for the role of Edward. In a documentary series on the filmmaker, presented on June 10 during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Johnny Depp said that icons such as Tom Hanks, Michael Jackson and Tom Cruise had contacted Tim Burton to play the hero of the film .
Edward Scissorhands : Johnny Depp almost refused the film after seeing the names of the actors in the running for the role
When Johnny Depp heard about the stars who were also in the running for the lead role in the film Edward Scissorhands, the actor got scared. “He’s never going to cast me when everyone in Hollywood is interested in this role. Tim was on all fronts because he was getting a slap on the wrist from his agent, the studio, everyone. So I called my agent after reading the script and told him: ‘Please cancel the meeting, I’m not going.’ And he said to me: ‘You are crazy ?’ It was weird because there’s always this voice in my head saying: ‘Come on, man. You’re just a TV actor. Because at that point, it was either one or the other.”, he recalled in the documentary. Despite his doubts, Johnny Depp finally went to the audition and saw his career take another turn when Tim Burton chose him to play Edward alongside Winona Ryder, his partner at the time.
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Edward Scissorhands : the start of a long collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton
Edward Scissorhands also marked the beginning of a long friendship and collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton. After the success of the feature film, the duo found themselves on the set of the biopic Ed Wood, in which the actor plays the role of this director considered to be “the worst ever”, as well as that of Sleepy Hollow: The Legend of the Headless Horseman. The 2000s were marked by the success of animated films Funeral rites (2005), fantasy comedy Charlie and the chocolate factory (2005) and Sweeney Todd: The Evil Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Johnny Depp then found him in the first part ofAlice in Wonderlandthen in the film adaptation of Dark Shadows.
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