Johnny Depp has gone through a variety of roles that include pirates, man with scissors for hands, and a constable in search for a headless horseman among others, but nothing scares him more than his latest role: a barber.

The 44-year-old actor says that a simple flashback scene in 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' had him and director Tim Burton shaken to their cores. It was when young Sweeney's happy life before he was sent to prison by the judge.

Johnny Depp acted as a relationship counsellor for Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter on the set their new film.

The actor - who stars as murderous barber Sweeney Todd in musical movie "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" - regularly helped his co-star Helena and her director boyfriend through their "domestics".

Johnny Depp was reportedly surprised that while working side by side with director and pal Tim Burton, he was asked by Burton's fiance, Helena Bonham Carter, to be the godfather of their child.

The director, known for his strange and gothic atmosphere of his films, apparently couldn't bring himself to do the asking. With that being the problem, he had asked Bonham Carter to put the idea to the actor.

Tim Burton bought four pairs of biker boots for Helena Bonham Carter to celebrate the birth of their daughter.

The 49-year-old director bought every pair of lace-up boots in Helena's size from trendy shop Cop Copine, in north London's Hampstead area, to take to the hospital for his partner, who gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday night.

Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have become parents for the second time.

The actress and the director welcomed a baby girl into the world on Saturday and both mother and daughter are said to be doing well.