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.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star was working beside the director on the set of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory when he received a message to call Bonham Carter right away.
"This is Tim Burton in a nutshell- we were doing Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and I was on the set. One of my pals comes up and says, 'Helena just called. When you get a moment, she'd like you to give her a call back.' So I go back to the trailer, call Helena, and say, 'Hey, what's going on? Is everything all right?' And she says, 'Everything's fine. But, well, you know how Tim is. He wants to know if you'd be... he'd like for you to by Billy's godfather.' I say, 'But I was just with Time. I was with him three minutes ago. I had to leave him to walk back to the trailer to call you,'" Depp narrates.
"So she called me to ask because Tim just couldn't. That was his way of asking. I went back to the set and said, 'That you.' I told him that I was honored. It doesn't get heavier than saying, 'I'd like you to be the godfather of my son.' But he's not ever going to put himself into a corny kind of situation with a pal. He's like, 'Good, yeah, yeah.' Boom. 'Let's get back into the work.'"
Depp and Burton has had teamed up for several films including Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, and the latest Sweeney Todd.
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