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Depp doesn't like looking at himself
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Depp, who was promoting his latest movie Public Enemies, told a press conference in London that he has not seen himself in the film.
46-year-old Depp said: "If I could avoid a mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I would. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant in almost everything I think you're gonna be OK.
"Just keep walking forward. It's OK to notice things and look at things but to judge things you know will bog you down. I didn't watch myself in the movie 'cos I don't like to be aware of the product. I like the process, I enjoy that."
He joked: "That is not my fault... I was there but I didn't do it."
Depp was asked how he gets to grips with being such a massive star. He said that the Pirates of the Caribbean films, in which he plays Captain Jack Sparrow, were life-changing for him.
He added that before then: "I went through 20 years of basically what the industry defined as failures... In terms of my process I didn't change a thing."
Depp also revealed that would choose 'Withnail and I', starring Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, if he could pick the last film ever to watch during his life.
Public Enemies had its European premiere in London's Leicester Square last night. Depp stars as John Dillinger, the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent Melvin Purvis, who is played by Christian Bale.
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