Johnny Depp’s Adventures In Burtonland

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KROQ is giving away advance screening tickets to Alice In Wonderland this weekend and if you’re as inspired as I am by the ongoing magic that director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp have produced over the last 20 years you won’t want to miss this great interview with both men.

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Johnny as the Mad Hatter takes the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine. Some excerpts:

“Alice marks Depp’s first foray into the brave new world of 3-D filmmaking, but the actor (who admits he still hasn’t seen Avatar) says he won’t be able to fully appreciate that extra dimension. ‘I’m actually unable to see 3-D,’ he says. ‘I’ve got a weird thing where I don’t see properly out of my left eye, so I truly can’t see 3-D.’ Then again, he never likes watching himself onscreen anyway. ‘So I have an excuse this time, he says, laughing.”

“EW: Johnny, what’s the scariest thing Tim ever asked you to do in a movie?
Depp: Singing in Sweeney Todd.
Burton: No question about it.
Depp: The thing is, I dumbly thought that once I’d gotten through singing the demos and going though the recording process in the studio, I was home free. I thought I’d get on the set and just lip-synch. I didn’t realize that you’ve got to sing it live on the set. Me and Helena (Bonham Carter) were, like belting it out with the whole crew watching. It was just mortifying.”

“Everyone in this town wanted to play Edward Scissorhands – including Michael jackson. I’d had a great meeting with Tim and left zipping on coffee and chewing on a spoon.”

The complete Entertainment Weekly article is not online (don’t they know you’re supposed to create art and give it away for free yet?) but the issue is currently on newsstands.