Films with his participation are non-standard  and eccentric, and his roles became cult.  

He is textured, but at the same  time plastic in his images.  

This is Johnny Depp. What role did drugs play in his life?  

Which woman made him trash a  hotel room after their breakup?  

And what annoyed him about Leonardo DiCaprio? Today on the Biographer channel we will talk  

about the childhood and the formation of the  personality of the talented actor, what traumas  

he went through and why he was under arrest. First, click on the subscribe button and the bell  

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and let's start. CHILDHOOD  

John Christopher Depp II, better known  to us as Johnny Depp, was born on June 9,  

1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was the youngest child in the family:  

Depp had two older sisters, Debbie and  Christy, and an older brother, Daniel.  

Johnny's childhood can hardly be called cloudless.  His father, the full namesake of his son,  

was a civil engineer. He worked hard, drank  frequently, and had the pleasure of beating  

his wife and children. His Mom - Elizabeth Sue  Wells, worked as a waitress from the age of 14,  

mostly in a roadside cafe. The profession  and early growing up left their mark.  

In the interview with Rolling Stone, Depp talked  about his mother's abusive and eccentric behavior,  

as well as their broken  relationship in adulthood.  

“Yeah, there were irrational beatings …  Maybe it's an ashtray coming your way. Maybe  

you're gonna get clunked with the phone.” Depp mostly remembers his mother returning home  

after working two shifts; he rubbed her  legs while she counted coins from the tip.  

Although he idolized his mother, he was not  blind to her erratic behavior and meanness.  

He told Rolling Stone magazine  what he said at her funeral:  

“My mom was maybe the meanest human  being I have ever met in my life.”  

It's clear that all conditions in which Johnny  grew up influenced him and his future path.  

The only person with whom the future actor  had a close relationship was his paternal  

grandfather Jim. He affectionately called  him "Paw Paw". While he was still very young,  

Johnny remembered picking tobacco in the fields  with him and listening to his stories.  

He spent all his childhood  with him, and when he died,  

the 9-year-old boy went through a real crisis,  which was reflected in his behavior.  

Another factor was the constant change of  residence. The family often moved, because,  

according to the actor, his parents did not  like to fix up and clean up their apartments.  

It got to the point that one day the family  moved to a new house at the end of the street.  

By the age of 15, young Depp had changed  several cities and even houses in the same city,  

moving in total, according to his words, about 40  times. When his father was offered a higher salary  

in Florida, their family moved there, leaving  all of Johnny's childhood friends in Kentucky.  

The lack of constancy and stability, the loss  of a loved one led to the fact that he began to  

constantly swear with his parents, at the age of  12 he began to smoke and get involved in alcohol.  

And a year later he started a sexual relationship  with a girl a few years older than him.  

When Johnny celebrated his 15th birthday, his  parents divorced. This completely unsettled him,  

despite the fact that, as he said, he  hated both parents. He started to take  

"every drug known to man". Among them, according  to the actor himself, were cocaine, ecstasy,  

LSD, psychedelic mushrooms and pot. “Mom asked me to give her psychotropic  

drugs. I tried one pill furtively and realized  that this is the only way to soothe the pain,  

”the actor later admitted. The result was logical:  

school absenteeism and the use of prohibited  substances led to expulsion from school.  

Although later Johnny said that he  tried to change the situation:  

It's interesting that Johnny gave his daughter  Lily-Rose Depp a try of the drug when she was  

13. The actor considers such an act a  manifestation of a responsible parent,  

since many children in the high school  where his daughter studied began to take  

alcohol and psychotropic substances  from the age of 12-13 at parties.  

“She was just 12, and she said  she didn't know what to do,”...  

“I said, 'Listen, sweetheart, if you are  at a party and someone hands you the joint,  

take the joint from the person , and pass it  to the next person. Please don't experiment  

with drugs with people you don't know.'” Johnny's first steps in music and cinema  

A significant event in the life of the  future Jack Sparrow was a gift from his  

mother - a cheap $ 25 electric guitar,  which he received for his 12th birthday.  

Watching his cousins ​​play in his  Uncles gospel group, he became obsessed  

with both guitar and music. It became an  incentive and creative outlet for Johnny:  

he independently mastered a musical instrument,  and when his parents divorced and decided to  

live an independent life, he left home and  moved into a trailer with his friend Sal.  

At first, Johnny played with small garage  bands, then he formed his first band,  

which he called Flame. At that time, it seemed  to him that he had found his place in life,  

his professional vocation. Soon he joined the musical rock band  

"Kids" and performed in nightclubs as part of  them. Once their performance was heard by Iggy  

Pop, after which he invited the guys to perform  "as an opening act" for one of his concerts.  

The future star was also impressed by the  visual component of rock and roll life.  

You will hardly be surprised, knowing his style  of dressing. But the fact is that in order to  

stand out not only in behavior, but also in style,  Johnny stole things from his mother's closet.  

Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had  all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut  

sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms. In one of the interviews, he admitted that he  

wanted to wear platform shoes,  but "just couldn't find any."  

But the first fees were not comparable  with what a young man needed to survive.  

Because Johnny was forced to get by with  part-time jobs: he worked at a construction site,  

worked as a courier and soon found a “stable” job  selling ball pens. But the guy gave all his free  

time to music. In just 4 years, Johnny  changed 14 different musical bands.  

At the age of 20, the guy first married the  girl Lori Ann Allison, who was 5 years older  

than Johnny and worked as a make-up artist.  Happiness did not last long. Two years later,  

the couple broke up due to the fact that the girl  didn't like the constant lack of money. But their  

marriage was the second significant event in  the life of our future star. Knowing about  

her husband's plans to become an actor, Laurie  introduced him to Nicolas Cage. By the time they  

met, he had already managed to gain experience in  the cinema: he starred in Francis Ford Coppola's  

“Rumble Fish” and a number of other films. From that moment, a new stage in the life of  

a young man began, which in the future would  be quoted by both children and adolescents,  

imitating the habits of Jack Sparrow. In the meantime, he got the first role in  

the horror film that later would become a cult  - "A Nightmare on Elm Street". It was released  

in 1984. Johnny claimed that he counted on an  episodic role, considering participation in  

the film as a springboard for his musical career.  But the directors were touched by his naturalness  

and charisma, and they offered the guy the role  of Glen, one of the main characters in the plot.  

Thanks to this role, other Hollywood  figures drew attention to Johnny and  

began to invite the young man to shoot. And Johnny himself literally “fired up”  

with acting. Without hesitation, he accepted an  invitation to shoot in the teen comedy "Private  

Resort", which was released in 1985. This was the  first role of a young actor, where he had to make  

professional “sacrifices”, namely, to act naked. But musical dreams didn't leave him. Wanting to  

save up for a new album, he took part in the  filming of such television series as "Hotel"  

and "The Lady in Blue", as well as the supporting  role of Doni Fisher in the film "Slow burn",  

along with Eric Roberts. But it didn't work  out as planned. Instead of a new album,  

Johnny chose to spend money on acting classes  (and not in vain, as time has shown).  

Pumping professional skills turned out to be very  useful. It led to the fact that we met a young  

man in the cast of Oliver Stone's military drama  "Platoon", where he received the supporting role  

of Private Lerner. Filming took place in difficult  conditions. The whole process of shooting took 54  

days in the Philippines. Actors were “trained”  like real soldiers: they had to learn how to  

move with equipment through forests, swamps and  rocks, eat army food, and sleep in trenches.  

It was here that Johnny was able  to play side by side with actors  

such as Charlie Shinn, Willem Dafoe, John  McGinley, Forest Whitaker and others.  

The film was released in 1986 and almost  immediately received eight Oscar nominations.  

According to the law of meanness,  almost the entire performance of  

Johnny fell victim to Oliver Stone's editing,  it was cut from the final version of the film.  

The actor appeared only in a few frames in the  background and in the central role of only one  

scene, where he worked as an interpreter. Without losing hope, upon returning from  

the Philippines, he continued to go through  auditions. In some of them he was successful.  

So, in 1987, Johnny played in the  popular television series 21 Jump Street,  

getting the role of a policeman  investigating the crimes of schoolchildren.  

By the way, another popular actor played along  with John. Brad Pitt also participated in this  

movie, although it wasn't the title role. "21 Jump Street" made the guy very popular among  

young people. Nevertheless, the actor himself  felt that the show was "stifling" his potential.  

He didn't want to be seen as just a "teenage  idol"; playing the same "one-dimensional"  

character became tiresome for him. Johnny claimed  more eccentric and meaningful roles, having not  

only creative talent, but great ambitions. In an interview about 21 Jump Street,  

the actor spoke unkindly about the series. “In the first two seasons I thought there was  

a lot of good stuff going on,” … “There  were good, important messages. But I think  

around the third season, it started to get  a little show-boaty, you know what I mean?  

It just started to become false. It started to  become this action-packed can of soup, you know?  

You just market it, and send it out.” It got to the point that the actor began  

to commit provocative antics in order to be fired  from the show. One day, he trashed a trailer.  

“After being confined to a television  series when you can't play anything but  

one particular character for, you know,  nine months… that'll make you insane.”  

Trying to get rid of the sugary role,  Johnny happily accepted the invitation of  

the infamous director John Waters to play the  lead role in the grotesque musical Cry-Baby.  

There John was a rebel, handsome,  impudent and imprudent bully.  

The musical film was released in 1990 and received  a lot of positive feedback from the audience.  

Such a step broke the stereotyped idea  of ​​​​Johnny as an actor of one role  

and became a springboard to the next role  which became significant in his life.  

You probably immediately guessed which one. And while I haven't spoiled the movie yet,  

pause and write your guess in the  comments (yep, I'm waiting)  

In 1989, Johnny was lucky. He was invited to the  lead role in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands,  

despite the fact that there were  decent competitors for the role.  

And all of them were no less talented than Johnny:  Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Jim Carrey...  

It's for this role that we remember Johnny  Depp when we talk about his career achievements  

(“Pirates” are not taken into account),  and exactly this role brought the actor  

three important things: it raised  him to the acting Olympus,  

and also - brought him the Golden Globe nomination  and introduced him to Winona Ryder, with whom  

he connected his life for four years. It's interesting that the main character - a  

cyborg, played by Johnny, speaks only 169 words  for the entire film. However, this does not  

prevent the actor from showing us the whole range  of feelings and emotions that Johnny experiences,  

using only one thing - his eyes. Well, there is one more important thing.  

This role helped Johnny make a long and strong  friendship with Tim Burton, which gave the world  

such films as Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the  Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Dark Shadows  

and other cool works of the tandem. They were two brilliant minds and at the same  

time - two men experiencing difficulties with  communication. But with a similar outlook.  

Johnny recalled their first meeting this way: “After sharing three of four pots of coffee,  

stumbling our was through each other's  unfinished sentences but somehow still  

understanding each other, we ended the meeting  with a hand shake and a 'nice to meet you'.”  

In turn, Tim said: “Johnny is very much known as a teen idol and  

he's perceived as difficult and aloof. As a person  he's funny and warm, a great guy. He's a normal  

guy-at least my interpretation of normal-but he's  completely the opposite of this perception.  

The strong cast: Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Dianne  Wiest, gave the young actor a new experience.  

With particular warmth, he recalled working with  Vincent Price. They became very close during  

filming and communicated until Price's death. But it was not without curiosities. It took some  

time for Johnny to get used to his costume. This  fact led to several blade incidents. For example,  

once in a scene where Anthony Michael Hall's  character had to confront the main character,  

he accidentally stabbed Hall's hand. But back to matters of the heart.  

Winona charmed our hero. Innocent face,  big eyes…She even wore an engagement ring,  

and Johnny got a "Winona Forever"  tattoo in honor of her. When they met,  

Winona was 16 and Johnny was 26. “It was a classic glance like in West  

Side Story where everything else went foggy,”  …“When I met Winona and we fell in love it was  

absolutely like nothing ever before-ever” They soon became one of the most frequently  

discussed and adored couples in Hollywood. They  were inseparable, spending whole days together:  

reading beat poetry, going to bookstores  and listening to their favorite records.  

They even had "their own" song -  "Crazy For You" by Madonna.