I was looking at a clip from one of the Pirates movies last night – the one where Jack is lost at The End of the World and is hallucinating (?) that he is the whole crew, about 30 Jacks – and there’s a Jack without a shirt. Of course while Johnny Depp is a Major Star and is thought to be very sexy… he’s still kinda of a skinny little fella.
I’ve seen most all his movies, except Last Resort. which is the one where he’s nude from the rear. Anyone suffer through “The LIbertine” long enough to see if he got naked there?
BTW I do think he’s underrated as an actor since he’s done so many silly looking parts. But go rewatch “Donnie Brasco”, “Ed Wood”, “Edward Scissorhands”, “Gilbert Grape” & tell me he’s not of the greatest actors of this generation.
Really? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone undersell his acting ability. I think of him as one of few whom seem to be universally respected for his talent and versatility.
The only criticism I hear regularly is criticism of a perceived Depp/Burton co-dependency (throw HBC into that fold as well), and I never hear those criticism as knocking Depp’s talent but to the contrary the criticism is that he’s doing another “paint by numbers Burton piece” when he has the talent to be doing so much more.
Other than on the topic of Burton Collaboration Overkill, I never hear anyone knocking Depp’s talent.