| 18th of November 99 |
Johnny Depp has recently talked to SALON magazine about working with Christopher
Lee in Sleepy Hollow. Depp revealed that
the veteran actor was intimidating, saying, "You are looking into the
eyes of Dracula and he's about to jump down your throat, and it's real,
and it's scary.".(CSO). Depp also went on to talk about the preperation
and the way it was like Edward ScissorHands. "When I read a script
and it's something that grabs hold of me immediately, I start getting these
flashes of people or places or things or images. For [Edward] Scissorhands,
for instance, I kept thinking of dogs I had as a child, you know, and newborn
babies. With Sleepy Hollow it was the sort of drive that Basil Rathbone
had as Sherlock Holmes -- to take that and use that, but what's going on
behind that is total and utter confusion. Whereas Basil Rathbone knew exactly
what he was talking about -- he hit every note -- Ichabod would hit it but
would, in fact, miss it.". He mentioned as well in the interview
that the film was very much like a DRACULA (1931) styled film. "It
is exactly the formulaic structure of that type of movie. We're twisting
it here, bending it there, pushing it around and bullying it a bit. We're
trying to take it a step further but at the same time not being disrespectful
to that structure and formula and saluting the people who have done good
work in it."
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