FoxNews: Johnny Depp was 'completely freaked out' by fame as a young actor

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Johnny Depp was 'completely freaked out' by fame as a young actor

Johnny Depp was uncomfortable with the sex-symbol status he received at a young age after being cast in Tim Burton's "Edward Scissorhands" in the '90s....                        ...                        ...                            ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login had a difficult time embracing his rising star in Hollywood.......Depp, 61, admitted in an episode of an upcoming, as-yet untitled documentary about his longtime collaborator Tim Burton, that he felt uncomfortable being on display.......In the four-part series, Depp recalled beating out You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for the lead role in the '90s hit "Edward Scissorhands," which is where his bond with Burton began to flourish......."I was completely freaked out by [fame]," Depp said, per You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. "Paparazzi would take pictures of me. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"People would whisper and point their finger and stuff. I felt like sort of this raw nerve on display."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......While Depp and Burton have worked together on a number of films since, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login star initially questioned the director's interest in casting him in "Edward Scissorhands."......"What I noticed the first time we met was he wasn't saying very many words," Depp said. "[Burton] would begin a sentence and I would go 'Oh yeah,' and then we would talk about Boris Karloff or something. We related on a lot of levels."......He added, "After about three-and-a-half hours of a really great yak with the guy, I still thought, 'No chance, man. No chance."......Depp finally realized that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login character was loosely based on Burton's own personality, and he was concerned Burton wasn't impressed.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"I was cast in the film, but I was stepping into a kind of family that I hadn't been totally brought into yet," Depp said. "I was absolutely convinced that I was blowing it. Tim had rehearsed everyone else in the cast. Everyone. Not me. He didn't rehearse me. He was excluding me from the cast and crew, isolating me."......He finally realized Burton intentionally kept Depp isolated from the cast so that he could understand Edward's isolated character......."It was scary. I was uber paranoid," Depp said. "Why is [Burton] not rehearsing me? Maybe he trusts me. No he doesn't. He doesn't trust you, what are you nuts? He's going to cast someone else, man." ...

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