Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Fan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#1Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:25am
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/11/02/sweeney-todd-entertainment-weekly
Click on the two links at the bottom:
>>Read Entertainment Weekly’s full article on Sweeney Todd. Read the extended Q&A with Johnny Depp.
#2re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:39am
Some "killer" new images too!
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#2re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:45amHelena looks great there.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#3re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:49amEverytime I see pictures from the film, I keep thinking that Sweeney Todd should not be that hot.
#4re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 10:54am
I wish they'd done something a little more stylistic with Rickman's hair.
It looks very modern in all the shots I've seen.
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Fan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#5re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:04pm
It's interesting what Depp says about his singing in the interview:
>>>Did Sondheim have any good advice for you?
He said to me early on, it was much more about the acting work than the singing. He felt the singing was secondary to hitting the notes emotionally. I didn't believe him. [Laughs] I think he was probably saying that to make me feel better about what I was about to attempt.
And what did that feel like?
Frightening. Really frightening! When Tim asked if I'd be into it, he said, 'Do you think you can sing?' And I said, 'Honestly, I don't know.' I'm not tone deaf, so I knew I could stay in key to some degree. But I didn't know if I could sustain a note, or belt one out.
You were in a number of rock and roll bands before you became an actor. Didn't you do any singing in those?
Virtually none. Just backup.
And yet Sondheim approved you without an audition.
Sondheim, bless him, had barely heard me talk. So when he said, 'He'll be fine,' it was a real shock.'<<
#6re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 1:09pmSondheim (in his own interview for BBC radio) said he was asked to approve Helena and the rest of the casting... but not Depp or Burton, because the project included them from the very start, as part of the initial deal.
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#7re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 2:25pm
Amazing pics!!!
Amazing article!!!
I WILL HAVE VENGENCE!!! I WILL HAVE... *ahem* Sorry I will have ... to go to the store and buy this issue 
#8re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/2/07 at 5:00pmgreat interview and amazing pictures. EEEE ANTICIPATION!!!
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#11re: Sweeney Todd on Cover of Entertainment Weekly
Posted: 11/3/07 at 5:31pm
The Alternative Sweeney... heheheheheheheohGod...
'I'm sure people will think, Aah, it's because I've slept with Tim,' she says. 'But I didn't sleep with Sondheim'
Oh my God, that was hilarious.
Sondheim is equally pleased with Depp. 'There are very few people who can act and sing at the same time,' he says. 'He's one.'
Well... that's good...
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
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