Johnny Depp On His Recent Flops: I Don't Give A F**k

Johnny Depp has forged a reputation on being laid back – and it appears he takes the same attitude towards a handful of recent flops at the box office too.

In fact, he’s explained that – much like his late mentor Marlon Brando – he doesn’t ‘give a f**k’ about it. Probably for the best.

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Speaking to Details magazine, the A-lister said: “As Marlon once so beautifully f*cking said to me, life is a birdsong. That’s stuck with me.

“What is really satisfying is, like Marlon, getting to that place where he just didn’t give a f*ck.

“First, I reached a point where I cared so much and was so diligent in terms of approaching the work.

“Then you get to where you care so f**king much that it gets goddamn beleaguering, you know?

“But then a great thing happens. Suddenly you care enough to not give a f**k, because not giving a f**k, that’s the total liberation. Being game to try anything.”

Sure, as an ethos it’s pretty sweary – but it’s clearly working out for him.

Depp’s Hollywood cache was arguably damaged by a run of box office disappointments, notably the disastrous ‘The Lone Ranger’, the unloved Western actioner which was a financial disaster for Disney, making just $260 million from a production budget of $215 million.

'Transcendence' was also a box office catastrophe, as was passion project 'The Rum Diary'.

He later added that rather than the brash and bold character people may presume he is, he’s actually rather shy.

“I’m f**kin’ shy, man,” he said.

“I’m living, in a sense, like a fugitive. I don’t like to be in social situations - it’s fine for me in a weird way, having to run and hide.

“Less and less, I have the opportunity to observe, because I’m the one being observed.

“The process I love. The other stuff… I can deal with being a fugitive for a bit, but I don’t know how much longer a human being really wants to be that.

“Actors essentially have to peddle their ass to sell the movie. All the by-products or occupational hazards of the thing. At a certain point, one has to dig deep and go, ‘Man, it is a birdsong’.”

Next up he’s playing the Wolf in Rob Marshall’s fairytale musical ‘Into The Woods’ alongside Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine and Anna Kendrick, due out in the UK on January 9.

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