
I always knew Johnny Depp was a generous man with extraordinary talent and a gy-normous heart, which is why I freakin’ LOVE that man. But when you team up Johnny Depp with Jude Law and Colin Farrell, you get one amazing trio. (And, well…lots of money too, I might add.)
Now, before you read what is posted below, I strongly advise that you grab a box of Kleenex and a diet coke…because you’ll need it. (Well, I did…maybe not the diet coke, but the Kleenex…ok, nevermind, just read it.)
Heath Ledger had one final film, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS, that he had been working on before he passed. Instead of nixing the whole movie, the movie’s director Terry Gilliam came across three young men who were wanting to save the day…Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.
Terry was interviewed recently and told a source, “The great thing about it is that when Heath died, and we have a character that wasn’t finished in the movie, those three actors [Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell] came along and saved the day. And so the character is now basically four actors creating one character. And that’s . . . it’s very interesting, and maybe even more interesting than it would have been with one actor going all the way through. I’m still not the best judge, because I have in my head what the film was going to be with Heath all the way through, and now there’s a different film there. But all I know is, it’s very funny.
The three actors were totally heroic coming in. This doesn’t happen very often . . . where there’s a tragedy like this, and very famous, very successful actors suddenly say, “Okay, we’ll do whatever it takes to help.†They came; they did the work; they allowed the movie to be finished; they didn’t take money–the money goes to Heath’s daughter. That’s extraordinary! And wonderful . . . and when you’re part of that, you think, “Ah, this is maybe why I went into the movies, in the beginning. I thought it would be full of wonderful people. And in our case, we’ve got a movie full of wonderful people, who did extraordinary things to help.
There are no words. Three Amazing Men. One Legend. One very lucky little girl. (RIP Heath.)
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