JOHNNY DEPP - DEPP DENIES HE EVER SHUNNED COMMERCIAL MOVIE SUCCESS

Johnny Depp maintains that he has never paid attention to remarks from cult movie aficionados that he sold out when he accepted the lead in the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie. "Never, not once," he told Time magazine in its current issue. "The idea of commercial success never bothered me necessarily. What bothered me was striving for that, and lying to get that." When the original film turned out to be a huge blockbuster, he said, he felt as if he had "infiltrated the enemy camp. ... Even now, with the dolls and the cereal boxes and snacks and fruit juices, it all just feels fun to me, in a Warholian way. It's absurd." Depp told Time that he's not ready to abandon his Jack Sparrow character yet. (He's still wearing gold veneers on his teeth that he doesn't plan to remove until he completes production of the next Pirates movie, the magazine said.) Asked about the possibility of additional sequels, he commented, "If they had a good script, why not? I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done."

19/06/2006