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Thanks chenoa--loved the interview! I have a feeling Johnny's kids will really enjoy Rango! I still laugh out loud whenever I watch P1 with the scene where Johnny runs like a lizard It's amazing where he draws some of his characters actions from for his films
-Donna
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"It is not the destination so much as the journey" ~Capt. Jack Sparrow
By DAVID WEINER February 13, 2011 Johnny Depp rustles up trouble as the quirky chameleon 'Rango' in his new, western-themed, CGI-animated comedy, in theaters March 4, and the star talks about the surreal nature of using "emotion capture" to make the film; reveals details about the upcoming 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and 'The Lone Ranger' -- and declares, "I'm riddled with Bieber Fever!
"My daughter is a big Justin Bieber fan, and she turned myself and my woman Vanessa and our boy Jack on to Justin Bieber," Johnny tells ET. "Yeah, we saw the show, kid's very talented, very sweet, and he made a surprise visit today -- he crashed the ['Rango'] press conference."
Johnny adds with a laugh, "But he's a sweet kid. It was the first time I had heard the term, 'A Belieber' and I admitted that I was a Belieber and he magically appears -- there he was."
In 'Rango,' which reunites Johnny with his 'Pirates of the Caribbean' trilogy helmer Gore Verbinski, Johnny plays a lonely chameleon whose journey takes him from the solitude of a terrarium to the remote town of DIRT in the Mojave desert. A lizard/thespian in search of an identity, Rango has always wanted to play the hero, so the townsfolk make him the sheriff, inviting a whole new set of dilemmas.
Unlike most animated films in which the actor's performance is captured by a microphone in a glass booth, the performances in 'Rango' were captured with the actors working together on a soundstage, and Johnny says with a smirk, "It felt ridiculous. … It was like the third and fourth string of regional theater. It was really bad."
"It was like living in a Salvador Dali painting, because you realize, 'I'm a middle-aged man pretending to be a lizard, and that guy over there's pretending to be a porcupine,' and it's insanity, so there's a kind of level of [surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel] that you have to embrace to do that sort of thing," explains Johnny. "[But] it pays off in the end and Gore was right."
Watch ET for more with Johnny Depp!
-Donna
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"It is not the destination so much as the journey" ~Capt. Jack Sparrow
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for the updates everyone! Looking forward to hear from the Premiere!
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Thanks cabungirl--you're right, that was a very sweet interview. I often don't think people realize how grueling some of these films can be & then Johnny sticks around to sign autographs.
-Donna
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"It is not the destination so much as the journey" ~Capt. Jack Sparrow
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I have a feeling Johnny's kids will really enjoy Rango! I still laugh out loud whenever I watch P1 with the scene where Johnny runs like a lizard 
It's amazing where he draws some of his characters actions from for his films 
