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                    Johnny News For 9/1/05--From News.Com.AU-- Bitter Sweet
                                     From:  By Peter Mitchell
                                      September 01, 2005

   Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka WITH his talent and looks, he would be forgiven for being loud and
                                           obnoxious.

  Women love him and men have a right to be jealous of him. But on a steamy afternoon at the Atlantis
   Resort in The Bahamas, Johnny Depp is as gentle and sheepish as a sober nerd at a school formal.
  Deeply tanned from six months in the sun, Depp has taken a short break from shooting the Pirates Of
  The Caribbean sequels near the resort to chat about Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. He speaks in
                            whispers, is polite and intelligent and sweet.

          It was not always the way, he says. As a kid his mother had a special name for him.

  "She used the term hellion," laughs Depp. "I wasn't obnoxious but I was curious. There were a lot of
             practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently."

  Depp is a Hollywood chameleon, switching from dirty Jack Sparrow to tidy playwright James Barrie in
        Finding Neverland, Constable Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow to Edward Scissorhands.

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 Now he is Willy Wonka, the weird chocolate mogul in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, the remake
                                    of the Roald Dahl classic.
 Moving from character to character is the same as moving from town to town. Which is something he's
                                           got used to.

  "I don't want to be stuck in one spot," Depp says. "My childhood was spent moving around. We were
 total nomads. Like gypsies, just moving from one place to another all the time. That's kind of ingrained
            into my psyche, into my being. I couldn't stand being in one spot for too long."

 And it's a trait he's continued in adulthood. "We split the year up with six months in Los Angeles and six
                          months in France. It just seems to work for us."

    The "us" is Depp's family, - his longtime girlfriend, French actress Vanessa Paradis, and their two
                children, six-year-old daughter Lily-Rose and three-year-old son, Jack.

  Depp says he is only happy when he is with his family and that is why they are rarely apart. They are
                living with him now in the Caribbean while he shoots the Pirates films.

 "The most I've ever been apart from my kids and my girl is four or five weeks and that drove me mad.
  One shouldn't have to do that. I can't do it. So as much as humanly possible I bring them with me on
          location. If Vanessa is doing a film and I'm not working, I'll go on location with her.

   "I have to have them with me. I love running around on the beach with the kids. Going swimming.
                                  Taking them out on the boat."

     Making Charlie And The Chocolate Factory has brought back many childhood memories for the
 42-year-old actor, who is almost unrecognisable as Wonka, wearing clip-on teeth which seem to change
                                      the shape of his face.

   With his equally oddball close friend Tim Burton directing, Charlie has been one of America's most
             successful movies in 2005, making almost $264 million over the US summer.

    The story follows the poor, good-hearted Charlie Bucket, played by promising British child actor
   Freddie Highmore, as he wins a contest and tours Wonka's secret chocolate factory with four other
                                            children.

   The children, except for Charlie, are brats. Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee and
                                 Veruca Salt are all greedy piglets.

 Depp says he is lucky his children are just like Charlie. "They'd both be closer to Charlie's personality,"
                                           Depp says.

        "Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all."

       Depp and Burton have forged one of Hollywood's most quirky but successful partnerships.

  Since 1990 they have worked together on six films - Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood,
   Charlie and the new animated feature, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, scheduled for release in Australia
                                          October 27.

               "The great thing about him is he has stayed true to himself," Burton says.

                "That's what I love about Johnny. He's maintained an artistic integrity."