Johnny Depp ransacked his trailer trying to get fired from "21 Jump Street"
The budding film star hated her image as an idol for teenagers.
Johnny Depp The career took a hit in the wake of recent controversies that prompted major movie studios to Stop working with him , but when he left his actor at the end of the 80s, he was actively trying to be fired. One of the major first roles of now 60 years was on the television show 21 Jump Street , and he did his best to get out of the show once his film career has started to take off. Read the rest to know why Depp wanted to get out of the crime series so much and what he did in order to get the ax.
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Depp was interpreted as an officer Tom Hanson 21 Jump Street in 1987.
Depp made his debut on the screen in the 1984 horror classic Freddy , where he plays a teenager who is sucked in a bed and turned into a fountain of blood, graceful of Freddy Kruger. Although a memorable moment, it would only be a few years later that the actor amount obtained a real leading role which helped him to propel him to the higher level of celebrity.
In 1987, he was thrown to play the officer Tom Hanson, one of the main characters in the police procedure 21 Jump Street . Hanson, like the rest of the Jump Street team, is a very young cop, and he uses his young appearance to go under cover in high schools and other adolescent contexts. The program lasted five seasons on Fox, which makes it not only one of the first successes of the actor, but also one of the Fox, as a network had only launched .
21 Jump Street helped DEPD become an idol for adolescents, but it quickly became clear that Hanson was not the role of his life.
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He was not impressed by the quality of the show - and he had film opportunities.
Depp's lack of enthusiasm for 21 Jump Street apparently became quite early. In an interview of 1989, he said he was happy that the show had Put it on the card , with the warning that the "idols for teenagers in sex symbol" were "not [his] goal". He also revealed a clear disinterest in the series, responding with "work", "contract" and "responsibility", when he was asked to describe in return for the new season in a word.
"During the first two seasons, I think there were a lot of good things," said the young actor. "There were good and important messages. But I think that in the third season, he started getting a little showboat. He just started becoming false. Begamped to become this action box full of action. You market it and send it there.
However, five years later, Depp was much harder About his concert in an interview with Playboy . He said he didn't like being a heart at all and that he "wanted to be an actor, and it was impossible on television". Depp also described the premise of the program "fascist" and said that his anti-drug message was hypocritical, because people making the spectacle (including himself) were frequently raised.
He acted in order to get fired.
In addition to his growing aversion to the show, Depp also looked at a film career. He played in Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands And John Waters' Cry baby in 1990.
"I do not want bite my hand that feeds me or something like that, "said Depp to Los Angeles Times That same year. "But I would prefer to make films with John Waters by far to be under cover in a high school carrying a firearm."
So, from season 3, Depp started trying to get out of the show, anyway to think.
"I offered to do a year of the show for free. I hate to look like:" Oh, I'm on television and they pay me a lot of money, poor me ", but I would have done two years to go out From there, "recalls Depp in Playboy interview. "They were trying to transform me into meno, into new children on the block. I couldn't play this game. I prefer to shrink in daily life than to get stuck."
Finally, things degenerated and the telegraph reported that Depp " raised his trailer , caused problems on the set and did everything possible to free himself from the show. ""
"It was out of control," he told the newspaper in 2006. "They created this image, this monster, and they sold it to the world."
His explosions worked. Depp's role was reduced in season 3 compared to the first two seasons, and at the end of season 4, he was released from his contract. Although it does not appear at all in season 5, It was always credited In the first two episodes.
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He played Tom Hanson once again, years later.
Although Depp left 21 Jump Street On what was probably not the best terms, he would play the officer Hanson once again. In the film 2012 21 Jump Street , with who Jonah Hill And Channing Tatum So many more comical infiltrated cops, Depp and Peter Deluise , who played Doug Penhall in the original show, made Camée appearances. It turns out that they have become DEA agents on the cover and the director Chris Miller tweeted that Depp's costume was so good This co-star Brie Larson thought he was just a supplement. It's a funny moment in a full circle for Depp and 21 Jump Street , even if Hanson meets a fairly horrible ending in the film. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
