Janelle Monáe Says She’d Like to Emulate Johnny Depp’s Film Career
Janelle Monáe Says She’d Like to Emulate Johnny Depp’s Film Career https://t.co/BE3M2C9J9K
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 14, 2022
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At a Q&A at the BFI London Film Festival Janelle talked about an acting career she would like to emulate
“When I think about careers, this person as an actor, his life as an actor only, it’s Johnny Depp”
“The amount of roles, from Willy Wonka, to Sweeney Todd, to all of the dramatic roles, [I want to do] whatever is the Janelle Monáe version of that, with those transformative characters that people are dressing up as on Halloween. I’m thinking that level. I’m ready to go there. Something grounded, but embedded in the hearts and minds of children.”
The Deadline write up points out that the audience did groan at this