The
Johnny Depp Zone
Interview
Archive
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Vogue Men
by
William Norwich
Photographs
by Bruce Weber
Vogue
June 1992
Johnny Depp sheds his scissorhands and spends a day at the beach showing photographer Bruce Weber his playful side.
When
they
were first courting
but making films at separate locations, Johnny Depp sent Winona Ryder
two hundred helium balloons one night.
"She
could
barely walk to the phone to say thank you, they took up so much
room," he says, still pleased with himself.
Winona,
as in "Winona Forever," as the tattoo on his arm proclaims, is
currently filming The Age of Innocence, Martin
Scorsese's
adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, in upstate New York. 
Johnny,
meanwhile, is writing a movie with his brother. "It's
not about
the child within," he jokes. "It's basically about good and
evil and believing in something."
The
star of John
Water's Cry-Baby and Tim Burton's Edward
Scissorhands,
Johnny will next be seen in The Arrowtooth
Waltz, due
in the early fall. He plays the Eskimo-obsessed Axel Blackmar, whom
he describes as "a more positive Holden Caulfield." 
Axel
is
living in his pickup truck in New York when his best friend arrives
from Arizona, kidnaps him, and brings him home to work for his uncle,
played by Jerry Lewis, who runs the local Cadillac dealership. Axel
falls in love with a customer, portrayed by Faye Dunaway. 
"So
we
have a kind of love affair," he explains.
One
day toward the
end of shooting, Jerry
Lewis came to Johnny's trailer carrying his
good-luck patent leather boots in a bag and told him that they had
been on stage with the likes of Sammy Davis, Jr., and that he had
performed in them before the King of Sweden. "And
then he hands
them to me,"
Johnny recalls. "They have nice scuffs on the
bottom. I have them up in my house, like a kind of shrine to him."