Johnny Depp Was Box Office Poison

02 July 2009

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Johnny Depp has revealed that he was considered to be box office poison until he landed the role of Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.

The actor was in town to promote his new movie Public Enemies and he admitted that he was still struggling to come to terms with his new found fame.

"I went through 20 years of what the industry basically described as failures. For 20 years I was defined as box office poison.

"I didn't change anything in terms of my process, I didn't change a thing. But that little film Pirates Of The Caribbean came round and I thought, yeah, it'll be fun to play a pirate for my kiddies."

"I created the character the same way I created all the other ones and I nearly got fired, and thank God they didn't.

The popular actor takes on the role of famous American robber John Dillinger who robbed the banks that were responsible for the Depression of the thirties.

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