Johnny Depp has said that becoming a father was the moment that changed his life and his career, describing it as a veil being lifted.
The 63-year-old actor made the comments in an interview with CBS Mornings, broadcast on Friday 13 November.Â
“There was a great veil lifted. That I had no idea had existed when my first child was born,” he said.
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Depp explained that before he had children, he had been questioning why he acted at all, and was choosing projects mainly for the money.
Fatherhood gave him a sense of purpose, which he says he has kept “for sure.”
He shares two children with his former partner Vanessa Paradis: daughter Lily-Rose, 27, and son Jack, 24.
The interview comes as Depp returns to cinemas in Ebenezer, Ti West’s take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in which he plays the title role.Â
It is his first film with a major US distributor since Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018.
The film also arrives several years after his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard.Â
In 2022, a jury found Heard liable on three counts over a 2018 article in The Washington Post, and found Depp liable on one count in her countersuit.Â
The pair settled in December of that year.
At the film’s premiere, Depp paid tribute to the people who stood by him.
He told Extra that his supporters are his “bosses”, and that he owes them for sticking with him through hard times.
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