Johnny Depp turns 60 millionaire, beloved and innocent before the law

Today, June 9th, John Christopher Depp 2nd becomes officially an elderly person, according to the World Health Organization, the WHO (there is a discrepancy between developed and developing countries, such as Brazil, but we are writing from our point of view by sight, so yes, Johnny Depp is a senior).

You can now park in the best spot, skip the passport queue and no longer need to pay for public transport. By the way, if you meet him on a bus or on the subway, it would be nice to get up, if you are younger, and offer your seat to the pirate of the Caribbean.

But, of course, none of that will happen in the life of Johnny Depp, who debuted somewhat by chance as a movie actor almost 40 years ago, in 1984, as one of Freddy Krueger’s victims, in “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, the first of a long series of films with the serial killer who kills teenagers in their dreams.

It was his friend Nicholas Cage who suggested that the handsome 20-year-old raised in Florida who played in a rock band should audition for a movie. He did, passed, the film was a success. He landed other small roles, including the terrific “Platoon,” directed by Oliver Stone in 1986, which won four Oscars.

But it was John Waters, the ubertrash director of 1972’s cult “Pink Flamingos”, as well as the incredible “Serial Mom” ​​and “Hairspray”, who noticed Johnny’s talent and gave him the central role of “Cry Baby” in 1990, a comedic musical about a bad boy with the face of an angel.

And that combination was the original mark of the young Johnny Depp, who was successful in the TV series “21 Jump Street” as a policeman undercover in a gang of young people, and then was “adopted” by Tim Burton as his pet protagonist. , since they made together the classic “Eduardo Mãos-de-Scissor”, in 1990.

The first half of the 1990s made Johnny Depp almost everyone’s favorite actor, with weird and adorable films like “Benny & Joon” and “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, released in the same 1993.

As he became more adult, his characters were also becoming denser, as in the great “Donnie Brasco” and “Sleepy Hollow”. Jack Sparrow, the pirate who turned him into an upside-down superhero and an absolute blockbuster, only appeared in 2003, when Johnny was already 40 years old, with almost 20 of his career in Hollywood.

But despite all the money, the astronomical success, the awards, the island in the Caribbean, the houses on several continents and the love life populated by interesting, beautiful and famous women – Sherilynn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis (mother of his two children, Jack and Lily-Rose – the latter, by the way, star of the series/phenomenon of the moment, “The Idol”, on HBO Max, whose second episode, which shocked the Cannes audience with a lot of nudity and a lot of sex, airs next Sunday), and of course, Amber Heard — that’s not what Johnny wanted at all.

Music is his true ambition, his thug love, what he always wanted to do professionally and what he has always pursued since he was a teenager. Perhaps this is the key to understanding this actor a little better, with almost 100 feature films under his belt, a salary in the millions of dollars and who never seemed to give much thought to the extraordinary achievements he had in life.

It’s as if he treats his acting career and life as a Hollywood star like someone who inherits a very profitable bakery from his family, but who deep down dreams of being an astronaut. He doesn’t give up on keeping the business going, but his heart beats faster when he’s on stage with his fellow musicians, playing guitar.

The fact that fans of his band, the Hollywood Vampires, or even the audience that sold out guitarist Jeff Beck’s tour, which he participated in in the months following the trial that stopped the world, go to concerts to see Johnny Depp actor , not the guitarist, must be a huge frustration.

Not that he lets anyone notice. After all, he’s a phenomenal actor, and that’s no mere opinion. His work is an undeniable fact, it is there to be seen, reviewed, analyzed. No mediocre actor fools everyone for so long.

But it’s not just with guitar, movie roles or his personal life beyond, let’s say, complex, that Johnny Depp occupies his days. He also paints. Portraits of him borrow from Andy Warhol’s style, so-called pop art, and his characters are well-known figures who had great significance in his life.

Heath Ledger, Bob Marley, River Phoenix and Hunter Thompson are some of the “friends and heroes” that Johnny painted over the years, and that were exhibited and sold in February by a gallery in Covent Garden, a London neighborhood. The total sum reached 8.5 million euros, something like R$ 46 million.

So when he declares at a press conference at the world’s biggest film festival that he “doesn’t care about Hollywood,” maybe, in fact, he isn’t acting.