10 facts about Johnny Depp 1. He was allergic to chocolate until he was seven, but ironically made two films titled Chocolat (2000) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). 2. Since he was a child, hes been a huge fan of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. 3. Depp has a phobia about clowns, once explaining: There always seemed to be a darkness lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil. 4. Hes listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid actor, taking in $US75 million between June 2009 and June 2010. 5. Depp still performs as a musician, playing lead guitar and drums for a cover of Carly Simons Youre So Vain, which appeared as a bonus track on Marilyn Mansons 2012 album, Born Villain. 6. Depp has a fossilised bug named after him: a 500-million-year-old ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, named Kooteninchela deppi in honour of his clawed character Edward Scissorhands, according to the Journal of Palaeontology. 7. In 2007, after Depps daughter, Lily-Rose, was saved from an infection that began to shut down her kidneys, he donated £1 million in gratitude to the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital and returned in Captain Jack Sparrow costume to read to other patients for four hours. 8. In 2012, while promoting his Indian character in The Lone Ranger, Depp - a part-Cherokee - was adopted by the Comanche Nation and given the Comanche name pronounced Mah Woo May, meaning shape shifter. 9. Depp owned the famous Sunset Strip club Viper Room when actor River Phoenix overdosed outside the club (he later sold it) and also co-owned popular Paris restaurant-bar Man Ray with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and singer Mick Hucknall. 10. In 2012, he appeared in Paul McCartneys Queenie Eye music video alongside Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep, Sean Penn, Jude Law and other stars Read more: smh.au/entertainment/movies/johnny-depps-brave-new-world-20140418-36vcf.html#ixzz2zMuY9jX9
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 21:06:21 +0000
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