The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?

[Urban]

The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#0

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:21am

Eccentric star JOHNNY DEPP is so keen to work with CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY director TIM BURTON again, he has agreed to play a woman in the quirky film-maker's next movie.

Burton plans to dramatise the colourful life of legendary burlesque stripper GYPSY ROSE LEE - and Depp loves working with Burton so much he is prepared to don stockings and high heels in his desperate bid to grab the lead role.

He says, "The other day I said to Tim that I would shoot anything with him.

"And he said, 'Well, next I'm going to do the Gypsy Rose Lee story.

"I said: 'Can I play Gypsy Rose?' And he said: 'Yeah.' So I said, 'I'm in!'"

It most likely is just a silly joke, but now it has me thinking of Johnny Depp as Gypsy. I know it would be a dramatic version of the show, but seriously now I have the image in my head of Captain Jack Sparrow singing "Let Me Entertain You"
Depp Will Play Women

[Theatreboy49]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#1

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:24am

That would be a riot. Personally I think he deserves an Oscar this year after losing for his rightful oscar in Pirates and not winning for Finding Neverland (though Jamie Foxx did deserve it)

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[Theatreboy49]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#2

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:24am

That would be a riot. Personally I think he deserves an Oscar this year after losing for his rightful oscar in Pirates and not winning for Finding Neverland (though Jamie Foxx did deserve it)

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[Plum]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#3

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:50am

*headdesk*

[BwayBoy25]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#4

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:52am

is tim burton really doing a moving about Gypsy Rose Lee...anywhere where this can be confirmed?

hear the beat...

[Dreamcatcher]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#5

Posted: 7/20/05 at 3:02am

I think I will have truley seen everything if this happens. Johnny Depp in drag...hmmmm.... Ah well I'd be very interested to see this to say the least.

I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart. -Scrubs

[SallyBrown]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#6

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:22am

Wasn't he in drag in those 2 other movies?

anyhoo................... yay!

"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

[Glebb]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#7

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:25am

Check out Johnny in BEFORE NIGHT FALLS.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

[EganFan2]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#8

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:47am

If he said this, he was probably joking. If he didn't say this, it's probably someone's idea of a joke because so many say he "looks like a woman" as Wonka.

[luvtheEmcee]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#9

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:53am

Sounds like he's joking, but oh, good God!

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[Glebb]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#10

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:56am

Morning Emcee!
Have a very Raul day. :)

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

[luvtheEmcee]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#11

Posted: 7/20/05 at 9:07am

Good morning! And thank you! (He's being interviewed on Sirius Radio today, so in fact, I shall!)

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[wiggum2]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#12

Posted: 7/20/05 at 9:47am

They said that on a comedy central commerical promoting the new movie, IT was a joke

[grizzabella]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#13

Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:34am

I know he said it as a joke, but what a hoot this would be! Johnny Depp as Gypsy Rose! Looking at his eccentric career, and his amazing talent, he could probably pull it off! He's still just about the prettiest man I've ever seen. lol!

"And the postman sighed as he scratched his head, you really rather thought she ought to be dead..."

[mabel]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#14

Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:42am

While I think this specific role may have been a bit of a joke, I know I read in an interview somewhere that he'd love the challenge of playing a woman. I don't think he was really joking w/ that comment. It certainly would be interesting.

But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)

[BobbyBubby]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#15

Posted: 7/20/05 at 1:31pm

Depp is already in Burton's next movie (animated). The Corpse Bride which comes out this September.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0121164/

[wildcat]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#16

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:09am

Johnny wants to play a woman?

Then put him in HAIRSPRAY and we can ALL get some sleep.

[nychick9876]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#17

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:54am

well i've always thought he was a great, versitile actor...

sometimes i think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams- the elephant man

[NYC_or_Bust]

re: The next person to play Gypsy... Johnny Depp?#18

Posted: 7/21/05 at 2:13pm

two words.... ED WOOD

If you haven't seen this movie..and are depp fan...you should be put in cinema prison

his performance in this matches POTC

I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2