Johnny Depp’s Period Drama From the 2000s He Dubbed ‘Exhausting on Every Level’
Despite all this, the actor claims it was an “amazing experience”.
Summary:
- Johnny Depp ’s thriving acting career back in the day would easily become an object for some other young actors’ envy, though Depp himself seems to be pretty sincere about the difficulties he faced throughout his years in Hollywood.
- In one of his interviews from several years ago Depp revealed that he had suffered quite a lot filming a movie that was released back in 2005.
- Despite all the challenges, the actor still doesn’t recall it as a bad experience while wishing to work with the film’s director once again in the future.
Though Johnny Depp had his own ups and downs throughout his several-decade-long acting career, with most of the biggest problems coming in the actor’s way after a scandalous trial with ex-wife Amber Heard, he’s to this day one of Hollywood’s most lucrative actors.
Having started his path around 40 years ago, Depp could easily be considered the industry’s expert with no real obstacle to ever impede him, yet there’s at least one movie that the actor himself thinks left him totally worn out back in the day.
In 2005, Depp starred in Laurence Dunmore’s directorial debut The Libertine that, based on Stephen Jeffreys’ play of the same name, follows carefree and rakish poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.
As Wilmot sees no harm in drowning his own life in endless amounts of alcohol and one-off sexual encounters with a myriad of women, he yet faces a big challenge when King Charles II reaches out to him asking to write a play that would celebrate the King’s long-standing reign.
Upon its release, The Libertine wasn’t met with the enthusiasm it was expected to get. Garnering only around $11 million in the box office, the film can’t boast of the critical acclaim either, still holding a very average score of 34% while the audience was a bit more gracious letting it end up with 58%.
Despite The Libertine’s quite modest results back in 2005, Johnny Depp still has a lot of good things to say about the movie calling it an “amazing experience”, though it still didn’t come around that easily.
According to Depp, the production process “was exhausting on every level” as the utterly tight schedule forced the actors to take extreme measures by sometimes shooting “eight to ten pages of very emotional spiel” per day.
The actor added that, apart from the time limit that the movie eventually got, the script itself was yet another challenge for such harsh conditions as the whole storyline puts the focus on “an epic biography of the guy in a very short period of time”.
However tough it all may have been for Depp, he’s still grateful for an opportunity to collaborate with Laurence Dunmore calling him “a brilliant filmmaker” and adding that he’d be so down for working with Dunmore once again.
So far there’s no such sign of Depp’s career horizon, but there’s still nothing to say about what the actor’s comeback to the industry will eventually hold.
Source: BBC