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Well, you may know that face.
Jonny Depp in the surprise hit |
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of the holiday movie season.
We're going to be hearing from the star |
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of Edward Scissorhands
in this half hour. |
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You recognize that face.
- Co-joins us this morning, |
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live from Hollywood to talk
about one of the hot movies |
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of this cold season of the year.
Good morning, Steve. |
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Good morning, Harry.
Yeah, it's doing very well. |
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It's a movie called
Edward Scissorhands, |
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and it's the latest movie
from Tim Burton, |
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who you might know
as the director of Beetle Juice, |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure,
last year's smash hit, Batman. |
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But we thought this morning
we'd talk with the young actor |
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who plays Edward Scissorhands,
and that's Jonny Depp. |
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"I know it's a little early
for Christmas, Edward. |
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But... |
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I have a present for you." |
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As Edward Scissorhands, Jonny Depp's
character is not quite human, |
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not quite robot.
He's the handy work of an inventor |
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who dies before
he can finish the job. |
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Edward lives on, |
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all alone in his
castle-like mansion. |
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All alone until... |
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"Avon calling. |
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Don't go.
- What happened to you? |
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I'm not finished." |
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The Avon lady takes Edward home
to her colorful suburban neighborhood |
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where the residents are, at first,
curious and cautious. |
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But he wins them over
with sheer charm, |
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and his unusual talents. |
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"Oh Eddie, is there
anything you can't do? |
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You take my very breath away..." |
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Why would someone want to subject
themselves to the kind of makeup |
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that this must have required,
the leather suit, |
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the buckles,
the hair, the hands, |
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in 110 degree heat on some days
in Florida, I understand? |
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With lots of bugs.
- This does not sound like fun. |
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Lots of love bugs around. |
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Ah, just goes along with
the territory, you know. |
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I was... I'm lucky.
I feel like... |
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the suit, the makeup,
the hands, |
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everything being
bound up like that, |
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sort of restricted in a lot of ways,
helped me to find |
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what I ultimately found,
which was the character. |
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You're out shooting
from morning till night. |
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You're on the set of a movie.
Were there everyday activities |
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that were impaired by having
these hands on you. |
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You couldn't very well take them off
and put them back on. |
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A lot of people really
helped me out a lot. |
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But, the most difficult was going
to the bathroom. That was... yeah. |
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When you had to go
to the bathroom, |
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it was the first time I'd ever have to
ask for help to go to the bathroom, so... |
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And the last, you hope.
- And the last, yeah, I hope. |
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Until I'm, you know, 100. |
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" Yeah, well I just met with
Chu-chu Raveli. |
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He wants two grams of coke
and somebody to take a piss from." |
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While Depp admits he owes much of his
success to the four years |
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he spent on the TV series
"21 Jump Street", he's angry. |
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The program settled him
with a teen heart throb image. |
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So, he deliberately set out to skewer that
image playing a juvenile delinquent |
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in the film, "Cry Babies".
- "Get on." |
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Depp doesn't like being labeled.
- The most common thing |
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that they try to label you is "rebel",
or "bad boy", or something, |
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one of those horrible,
you know, silly names. |
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And, it's just, it's just
such a joke, you know? |
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I mean, every young actor
whose come out they try and say, |
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"Oh, he's a bad boy. He's a..
He looks this way, so..." |
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He's a James Dean type.
- Or he's a James Dean type. |
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Or he's a young Brando,
or he's a, you know, |
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how can you,
you know, you can't do that. |
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It's impossible to know
a person just by looking at them. |
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OK, given the opportunity
to describe yourself. |
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To describe myself? Oh that would,
we'd be here for a long time. |
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Because I'm, I'm still trying
to figure that out myself. |
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So, it would take a team of psychiatrists
probably to figure that one out. |
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I asked Depp what he's working on next
and he said reading, |
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reading movie scripts. He hasn't decided
what his next film will be, |
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but he was adamant in saying
he will not return to television. |
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And you know what, Harry?
He's currently engaged |
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to his Edward Scissorhands co-star,
Wynona Rider. |
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Now, Depp has been engaged before.
Those didn't work out. |
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This time I think it's going to last.
He's had "Wynona Forever" |
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tattooed on his right shoulder.
- He might be able to |
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take the scissor hands off,
but not the tattoe. - That's right. |