Here’s Johnny Depp outside Jimmy Kimmel’s show yesterday afternoon. He’s entering the final stretch of Lone Ranger promotion — the Disney movie cost so much to make and opens tomorrow against Despicable Me and holdover release Monsters University, so it will be interesting to see whether Johnny’s star power can recoup the film’s mammoth budget of around $250 million plus all the costs involved with promotion and distribution. Johnny’s international fans are going to have to pull some major ticket sales for this movie to make a profit, and that might be more difficult than usual when he’s playing a Native American rather than a swashbuckling, global-trotting pirate. Who knows what will happen?
Anyway, Jimmy Kimmel and Johnny got a little fresh together with Jimmy commenting on Johnny’s “beautiful face” and Johnny skipping a beat before laying a few kisses on Kimmel. Including one on the lips! I’ve included those videos at the bottom of this post, but first, here are some excerpts from Johnny’s interview with Charlie Rose. He admits that Disney was nervous when they saw him in Tonto makeup for the first time, but he talks about all sorts of other stuff too:
On his split with Vanessa: “When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe. We were just very truthful with them and they were just incredibly understanding, incredibly accepting. I was extremely proud of them, the way they dealt with it.”
On playing The Lone Ranger sidekick: “I would rather be a Keith than a Mick.”
Aging gives him more freedom: “I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.”
Having children made him grow up. “You know you start getting hit with some very interesting situation in life, you as a parent when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and they things you were doing at that age…. Please don’t do what I did.”
[From CBS]
This is the point where I could make a snide comment about the freedom associated with Johnny’s aging leading into the arms of a busty blonde, but I think that point is probably dead by now. Here are those video clips of Johnny’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. I think Amber needs to worry about Johnny’s wandering eye here! Ahem.
Photos courtesy of WENN
I get the feeling he was always immature and ego driven [ as shown by his current relationship choice] and Vanessa Paradis had had enough of his crap.
Yes, exactly
I used to like him, now all I see is a middle aged drunken douche that dumped the mother of his kids, for another woman almost half his age. He will never get my money again.
I’ve never liked him because all I’ve ever seen is a teenage/20s/30s/40s drunken douche. He has always come across as waaaaay too ‘try-hard while also trying to seem nonchalant and super-duper cool and hipster’ for me. He seems like a complete poseur. That kind of facade always seems obnoxious and tiring, but even more so the older someone gets (IMO).
I’m not surprised in the least that either he dumped VP for a younger woman or that she got tired of his d-bag ‘try-hard while also trying to seem nonchalant and super-duper cool and hipster’ attitude and dumped him.
@inthekitchen That’s right, never mind the fact she fell in love with him, decided to have kids with him, praised of him being a great lover and father and spent atleast a decade hanging onto him. I wonder what took Vanessa so long. It’s not like she couldn’t have moved on.
Interestingly both Kate and Winona never bitched about him. Kate has said that he took care of her loke no one else while they were together. And Winona praised of him as an amazing guy, her first love and has told that not everything that the press writes about him is true.
As for the whole ‘super-duper cool’ and ‘non-chalant’ image. These are the tags under which the press write about him. They have tags for everyone. I guess you prefer some tags over the other. He’s always said he does movies that he wishes to do for whatever reason. He may steal other’s clothing style but eccentricities do exist, not everthing is about being a poseur.
Infact he’s been anything but sincere about himself whether it’s about his drinks or his immature ‘angst’. Others have always described him as a generous soul, a guy with a golden heart, even when he wasn’t a big star with an image to keep up. You don’t have to be ‘typical’ to be a good guy and you can be unlucky in love. Some people are judgemental when someone doesn’t fit an ‘image’, how being different is always about trouble or ‘trying hard’ or posing. It’s just biased distaste.
No, a-hole, you don’t get “total irresponsibility.” You can dress however the hell you want, but you still have to act like a man. I’m sure your kids were delighted to learn that you and their mother were splitting up so you could be with your sidepiece. I’ll bet they love reading all about it all over the internet.
Douche.
Sorry, a bit snarky this morning. Must have my tea now…
100% with you, Izzy – so sick of ‘men’ thinking they have no responsibilities. Dicks. (with you on the snark :D)
Agree with you both. He’s a loser. Bedhead should have included the snide comment. He’s a cliche.
I have so much respect for the way he talks about Vanessa and their children.
He’s not the parent he thinks he is if he believes his kids are so mature & accept the split with equanimity. Their family life has been shattered.
There’s a certain difference between an old man not giving a crap about what other people might think about what he is wearing, and a 50 years old with a busty 20 something blonde at his arm. The second one is a cliché.
EXACTLY!
exactly!) also, he’s dressing the opposite of cool. being cool and trying hard to give impression of coolness- are the opposite things
Johnny hawt!!! Yummy old man.
Well quite. There’s got to be a portrait up in his attic that looks like Keith Richards.
I would agree with him IF I had his money. But I don’t so I guess I don’t get to be irresponsible.
Exactly, most people nowdays have to work another 20 years. Johnny can have his huge mid life crisis and not give a fµ cus he’s got loads of cash.
So does that mean Private Resort 2 is in the offing?
I still love him.
I saw the first pic and immediately started humming “I’ve been working on the railroad”.
I’m not sure I agree with him but its his life and he has more money than god, so that leaves him with very little need for accountability.
Yeah I’m done with him. It’s a shame bc he was a great talent at one point.
Also, I love 50 year old men who have zero clue how much luxury they have in terms of aging vs women.
+1,000,000
It’s been really hard for Depp fans (I’m including myself in this) to watch him become such a cliche. He was such an amazing and interesting actor for so many years, plus he was SO hot!
It’s sad to see what he’s become. Sure, he’s still quite talented but his off-screen life seems so exasperating and bleak to me.
I get that he’s probably happy doing what he’s doing but I always thought he was better than that-more introspective and self-aware.
…I guess I was wrong…
I used to love him too but he has entered douchebag territory.
Oh please!
She has said that she doesn’t believe in soulmates and that love is a painful thing. This was after the break-up:
“Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn’t work from the beginning, it’s never going to work. Don’t push it.”
” Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it’s making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out”
“I don’t have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. It’s not feeling obliged or forced or repeating yourself.”
“I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say: ‘You have to work at being a couple,’ she added, “No, you have to want to be there. And for me, I want to be right where I am right now.”
“My children are grown now, they are more independent.”
She gave these interviews during promotion of her film which was around the time of break-up.
Depp is speaking about it only now when he’s giving interviews for the first time ever since the split and all he’s been saying is that it’s been hard for all of them but they have been honest and understanding about the kids. He’s also called Vanessa “a great woman and a mother”. Also about continuing to love for the sake of his kids and the “beautiful” years. That’s it.
Again,She’s the one who’s talked about not wanting to marry, about being more married than anyone else, about not wanting to fix it when it’s not broken. He’s been parroting the same but had gone on record saying he’s do it in a second if she wants to.
And you people are saying that only she has class and not Depp? That he’s being obtuse but she’s tight-lipped? And blaming him for not marrying her? Not interested in the relationship relationship anymore? Trashing him for calling his children “understanding”? All this because he moved on a with a young woman?? wow!
Also anyone calling him the impulsive one in his relatioships should check out her quotes on falling in love with him.
Seriously people need to get a clue and stop being so judgemental and harsh about him. As Vanessa herself has said no one knows what went down and it’s all been gossip. He’s been nothing but a class-act in this regard.
I saw some of his interview with Charlie Rose and he said that his kids were very accepting of his split with their mother. I found that hard to believe. I know adult friends who have parents divorcing and these adults are not accepting. Look at Miley and how she has reacted to her parents’ split.
The only way they could or would be accepting of his leaving their mother is that there have been serious problems, that they have been split for some time; living separate lives and this is just a period on what has already been a reality for the children. Because I don’t care how you put it but children are not going to be OK with their family being broken; unless it has been broken for a long time.
Men in their 50s are either settling into their lives and enjoying the period when the kids are not babies anymore and the men that are letting go and starting over with a younger woman and that second family. I think Johnny is in the later case.
I also think he is living in some kind of “I’m Johnny Depp’ fantasy land if he thinks a 20 something year old woman is going to want to sit in a rocking chair chilling while he is in jogging pants and not want to enjoy FUN.. Johnny does not seem like the FUN guy. He seems very set in his ways. He likes to rock with guys that are older and that is about it. Which is why for example if you see George Clooney and Stacy. She goes to Italy with him and they hang on a boat and well that is pretty much it. She does all those other things on her own because George is stuck in his ways.
welcome to your life Amber
Yeah, I saw that too and he spoke about being honest with his children about the split, because he doesn’t believe in lying to them.i wonder how honest he actually was, considering most people assume the split was caused by his cheating with Amber.
And how does that work for his kids with having her around. I mean I wouldn’t want to hang around my dads alleged mistress. Not only would my heart break for my mother, but I would be uncomfortable as hell around her.
I’ve started to notice how much public speaking isn’t his forte. Manages to say something uncomfortable or controversial.
well, obviously, he and vanessa were having problems for awhile. just b/c it’s not public knowledge, does not mean it’s not true. they lived a very private life, for all we know, they had been living separately for awhile. I think that is probably the case and they just decided to formally end it.
my boyfriend and i had been having problems for almost two years and people were shocked when we broke up because we didn’t air our dirty laundry. so to say he left her for another is an unfair assumption, imo. like i said, they had prob been living apart for awhile.
and i’m sure the kids had some clue as to what was going. people don’t just leave their families out of the blue for no reason or just b/c a blonde comes around.
I saw Depp on Letterman, caught him affecting an Irish brogue, and when he nattered on in that fake accent, I SHUT OFF THE TV.
OK. that made me laugh. Thanks!
why on earth did he change his accent ? this is what he sounded like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrdr2OLgrrY
I am having a difficult time judging Johnny for this one. He was not married to VP. I do not know what their relationship agreement was. He bought her a nice house. I bet he will still provide for her and the children’s needs. But he found someone else. People move on from relationships all the time. Maybe he could have removed himself more gracefully but I don’t get the hate.
Everyone is free to their opinion..
but why is it that women (which makes it sadder to me) relegate a 14 year relationship with a woman that he had 2 children with; a woman that he admitted saved him from himself is somehow not as meaningful because they were not married. And that he bought her a house should be enough and will still support HIS children is so admirable.
I don’t know what happened in their relationship. But 14 years in a relationship to me is no less than if he was married to her. Marriages end in divorce. Some in days, weeks and a few years. Why are some splits so devastating to the public and others are OH well.
Vanessa by all accounts is a good woman. I just don’t get how people react as if some breakups are the end of the world and other are less
What I dont get is how Team Vanessa think she was horribly wronged when she has said nothing and hinted nothing. All I keep getting is that Depp was deeply unhappy for along time because hes told us so. That the relationship was in major trouble and at some poont (possibly during the separation process) the man fell in love. Vanessa doesnt sem bitter and has herself been dating, so where arepeople getting this narrative?
Its sad but I suspect many are just projecting their own experiences or even fears on this situation. Just because “he” left you or you fear “he” will abandon you in your old age for younger girl, doesnt mean thats what happened here. Too easy.
“What I dont get is how Team Vanessa think she was horribly wronged when she has said nothing and hinted nothing. All I keep getting is that Depp was deeply unhappy for along time because hes told us so.”
The answer is in you own statement. Sure Depp was conveniently obtuse in his wording, but he had no problem saying he was unhappy for 2 years and what did Vanessa say about the relationship? NOTHING. She took the high road because that’s CLASS.
Compound that with the fact that Depp’s jump-off is a young, blonde 27-year-old and it just looks kind of…sad.
If he’s happy then that’s his choice but his post-breakup image isn’t a very palatable one and that’s what people are responding to. And don’t even get me started on the busted hobo-pirate look he’s so fond of…
There simply is no bitterness here period. Hes talking about it because hes doing dozens of interviews now for Lone Ranger. Hes saying the kindest things about Vanessa. Shes not side eyed himionce. If you guys presume bitterness here, you are projecting. And also assuming that Vanessa had not also fallen out of love or that she wanted to stay with him.
I just googled her pics and that woman really needs go eat something or stop with the drugs. Eeeew! Brand new appreciation for Amber Heard. Hurray for girls who eat.
It’s equally saddening how him being the ‘father of the children’, him investing his life for 14 years with her and the kids, nurturing them and his interest as a father in making sure of their well-being in any event is being relagated to trivial just because of the break-up and the fact that he’s moved on with a young girl. How the father, the man, alone is seen as a soulless beast while the ‘mother’ only is in the pain? All break-ups are not like that, I should know.
He’s also known to be a good guy on all accounts with fans, friends, people he works with & even his ex-es. And he’s been nothing but a respectful ex so far. And in all probability as good a father as Vanessa has been as a mother.
If you find it unfair if people undermine Vanessa’s right as a partner and mother, why do you do the same to Depp? Why is it sad if it’s about Vanessa but you can pretty much trash-talk anything about him?
Atleast in Hollywood infidelity isn’t even the main reason for break-ups, even Vanessa has said that she’s open about it. Break-ups are often about clash of egos and interests. She too was working and spent time away from the family. Mid-life crisis can affect both of them. She can be the one to fall out of love as well and he just rebounded with the next girl on his side. It’s just no one knows about the split, neither Depp nor Vanessa have talked about, so people should stop judging both of them
Was he drunk or flying high as a kite on something else doing Kimmel?
I don’t think so. He was with his children and all their friends there.
He wouldn’t be getting drunk with his children there, and that’s a fact
But his fans said he was sick. That he was with a cold from Russia and it may be because of it and a bit of jet lag…he was returning from Russia
WHOA. Mid-life crisis alert.
Okay, I admit I’m a total Depp defender but…He’s always been a bit odd. I truly think the Pirates series was the exception to the rule, not the rule itself. Every other movie he has done has some weird, less-than-mainstream thing to it. But I think he jumped to A-list with Pirates and fooled people for awhile about who he really was.
He has ALWAYS been a bit weird, irresponsible, and out of touch. I think he probably wasn’t really around that much with Vanessa. I suspect they were only together about half the year anyway and she was fine with that. It’s all the kids knew so him splitting with their mom probably didn’t have as big an impact on their lives as it would most kids.
I think when he did get so big, it drew a lot more attention to his relationship with Vanessa and that probably caused the strain. She could ignore his quirks when he was gone half the time and no one was watching. But when people started selling them as this great romance, they couldn’t live up to it. He certainly couldn’t.
Do I think he’s a great guy? No but I do think he is who he has always been. This interview is classic Johnny. Look at his body language, the way he keeps breaking eye contact, crossed legs, shifting position and rocking back and forth. He doesn’t like doing this stuff but he is professional enough to show up.
Love him or hate him. Whatever. But realize he hasn’t really changed who he is. It’s just our perception that’s changed, imo.
You said it. That’s what I’ve been asking. Why the sudden coldness or change of perception? He’s always been an oddball and a bohemian. Why was he revered then and why he’s trashed now?
However I’m not sure of him not being a good guy because the demise of his ‘Hollywood’ relationships. That is somehow implying that all his women were perfect and he’s the one screwing it. Maybe he’s choosing the wrong women as well. Honestly Winona, Kate, Vanessa, none of them struck me as an ideal companion for eternity. Anyway, any negativity about him has come only from his mouth. Even during his tabloid heyday he was known as a surprisingly good guy and largely misunderstood, even his ex-es have said it.
But yes, he’s the same, it’s just these gossip sites are making him as their punch-bags out of gossip boredom. Except that in his case it’s lame and bore.
Wait. I thought he just turned 50? So then, what has been his excuse for the gawd-awful fashion choices he has made over the last several years?? Admit it Johnny, your problem is your ego, the booze/drugs, and your perpetually delusional state. And let’s not forget your Peter-Pan Syndrome.
The truth is: Johnny was always cheating (with Marion cotillard,mermaid girl..) and Amber was Never bi sexual.
Agreed! He must have been seeing Amber ever since they made that movie together in 2009. He stopped showing up with Vanessa in public from that point and started being more and more apart. And Amber announced herself as a bisexual only to avoid suspicion of their relationship.
However I also think Vanessa trapped him with pregnancy and the only reason they stayed together is becouse of his affection for his kids. I remember him being a bit too cryptic at the beginning of that relationship, even admitting that they had problems and that the pregnancy just happened. While she seemed so passionate about him in interviews to the point of being phony, his quotes about her seemed just for selling his family image. There was no chemistry between them like he had with Winona or even Kate. This is why she has said there was always something wrong in their relationship.
Unfortunately it was Vanessa who was a rebound, fell in love with him and turned what was supposed to be a mere fling into a relationship. I know how everyone sides with the Team ‘EX’ because the woman, especially a mother, should always be the victim and the man the tyrant, but she surely knew about his affairs but was probably unwilling to let go. She’s even said that she doesn’t care about his ‘personal space’. Hence the whole drama.
Even Depp fans are disapppinted because of the end of the ‘fairytale’ romance but IMO it was just a tale and always destined to be doomed. The split is probably better for both and as a rarity,for the children as well.
He’s such a cool guy. Nothing fake about him. He always seems true to who he is. I dont get all the hate for him just because his relationship ended. No one knows what went down.
lol bull and $hit! this is the same guy who claimed “I never repeat my movie roles” hes greedy @$$hole
Yeah, priorities change for every actor. He said that back when he was deliberately doing small movies. Now even he says that his money is ‘stupid’. He’s indeed not fake.
He looks really good for 50. or just good in general. never saw the attraction to him until these pics.
He is really, really good looking. And probably always will be. Sure, he gets fat and dirty and beardy sometimes (not to mention dick-ish), but still, he just has a beautiful, interesting face. He is one of the very few men I have ever heard straight guys admit is attractive.
I just don’t like him anymore.
Whatever mid-life crisis he has when I hear his voice.. I just melt. He’s 50 years old and still rocking his hotness -kinda-.
God he was totally drunk on Jimmy Kimmel’s.
There’s this fine line you start to cross at his age. You go from looking fairly cool dressing however you want to looking ok (people kind of excuse it as your style), and then, before you know it, BAM. You suddenly look like a sad old idiot.
I’ve never had anything against him, but that second pic below the last video was the moment for me. He just looks sad and pathetic.
I’m glad others are pointing out the bullshittery of his comment about how his kids are taking it. Oh yes, they’re so supportive and accepting of their family being annihilated. SURE, dude. Kids are totally down with that and totally exist just to accept whatever you do.
He definatley has changed the way he talks.
I always thought he is way over-rated as an actor. He was marvelous in “Sleepy Hollow” but I’ve never liked him in anything else, and that includes the “Pirates” movies.
In celebrity “world”, no matter how much the offended party in a relationship, or former relationship want to “tell the world”…the non disclosure agreement that they signed legally demand that they remain silence, unless given written permission by the other party to speak.
ROB LOWE WINS IMPORTANT RULING ON CELEBRITY NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS
http://reporter.blogs.com/thresq/2009/04/rob-lowe-nanny-secrets.html
From Wikipedia: A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also known as a confidentiality agreement (CA), confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), proprietary information agreement (PIA), or secrecy agreement, is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to or by third parties. It’s a contract through which the parties agree not to disclose information covered by the agreement.
His ass looks huge in that last picture!
I believe if his children are doing well with the split, it may be mostly because their lives hasn’t been altered too much…oh c’mon! all their fans knew for a long time that Johnny and Vanessa hardly were in the same country (not even country , same continent)at the same time for years. They always were separated, if Johnny arrived from some shooting, Vanessa left to shoot in France. Vanessa arrived from France, Johnny inmediately left to promotes the next movie, etc…they said that was the way to deal with their agendas and their couple, but now we know it was the way to “disguise” their serious issues as a couple
So their children only would feel the strain, when they are in the same city and they have to choose between Daddy’s house or Mommy’s, and that almost never happen. Because they remain in the same dynamic than before their split…Vanessa works in France, she returned, then Johnny can left to work on his new movie or take Amber to his island, etc.
I honestly think he is kissing Kimmel like that to seem cool to Amber, who has been involved with other women. He’s impossibly self centered and always acted like he wanted a family life with kids and partner, but truly, he’s just another selfish SOB.
+1
“Incredibly understanding, incredibly accepting.” Typical male putting head in sand. No matter how well you handle a separation, divorce, it is devasating for children unless, of course, their life with the parents together was a hell hole, like physical abuse against the mom or whatnot. My friend’s little girl never said too much and seemed okay with it. But she heard her on the phone one day, and what she heard her say to her little friend about it was heartbreaking. And it was almost a year later. She’s a sensitive child and months later was diagnosed with an ulcer after suffering from stomach aches for quite a while. She was only eight when they separated.
It doesn’t mean some couples shouldn’t divorce, but it’s not a walk in the park for the children and a lot of heartache. He doesn’t want to feel any guilt.
Is he taking his children with him to promote his movies now? Hmmm. I never understood the Brad comparisons. Maybe they’re more alike than not?
no he’s not SHOWING THEM UP to the media like brad but he took them with him to jimmy kimmel.
they weren’t married! and I don’t care about this douche. my hubby calls him try hard depp. only thing I can stand him in where the pirate movies. he has his head so far up his a$$ its not even funny
Johnny Depp has a big old ass.
er..how many of you have seen Amber Heard in movies and in nude? She isn’t skinny and flat-chested like Vanessa or Kate Moss but she isn’t busty. Her breasts are small, her body just has some weight on it but looks natural.
She looks different made-up glamourously in pictures but actually she has the same wide-eyed, child-woman thing going on about her face that Depp usually goes for. You can easily see that in her movies or her real-life pictures. She isn’t a typical Hollywood vixen or femme-fatale but has a classic vibe. Infact it’s laughable that some compare her to Anjelina Jolie just because of the bisexual thing. Her close-up shots actually reminds me of Vanessa Paradis. No wonder he went for her right after the break-up.