There’s always a method to Johnny Depp’s madness, especially when it comes to his commitment to his characters – but even for Depp, Whitey Bulger was a bit too much to handle.
Depp who is unrecognizable as Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in the film Black Mass, with a receding white-grey hair line and piercing eyes, tells ET Canada he will always have a bit of Bulger with him.
“I think with any character you play, there’s always a touch of them that sticks with you throughout and in a weird way kind of stays with you for life,” Depp said.
“Because you’ve investigated and done a lot of homework so you’ve learned a lot about this person… for me it was tapping into the Catholic boy of the Irish immigrant, the proud Irish immigrant family of the Bulgers and at the same time ramping up to this place that can be extremely unpleasant.”
Depp finishes by joking, “at the very least I didn’t bring Catholicism and violence home.”
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