Johnny Depp says he was ‘completely freaked out’ by fame as a young actor

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People.“I felt like sort of this raw nerve on display,” he added.Depp rose to fame as a teen idol on the TV series “21 Jump Street,” before he broke through in film thanks to multiple collaborations with Burton, 66.In archival footage from Tara Wood’s four-part docuseries, Burton described Depp as “very much not” the sex symbol that he was portrayed as in the media at the time.Later in the doc, Depp spoke about the bond he formed with Burton when he was cast in 1990’s “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.”Depp also said that he beat out Tom Cruise and others actors for the lead role in the film, a job he didn’t think he’d get.“After about three-and-a-half hours of a really great yak with the guy [Burton], I still thought, ‘No chance, man.

No chance,’ ” the Oscar nominee recalled.Speaking more about his experience doing “Edward Scissorhands,” Depp said, “I was cast in the film but I was stepping into a kind of family that I hadn’t been totally brought into yet.

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.