Flipping channels the other day, I came across Johnny Depp on In The Actor’s Studio. He was talking about Sleepy Hollow, and how he was certain that he would be fired from the movie after it had been shooting for two weeks. When asked why, he said, here’s this very expensive film, with a lot at stake for the studio, and I am playing the lead character as a 14-year old girl. Why wouldn’t they fire me? Depp says Burton ran enough interference for him with the studio to keep it going, but yes, looking back on it, he was playing Ichabod Crane as a fourteen year old girl. Continue reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory