Kevin Smith doesn’t direct Johnny Depp
KEVIN Smith insists it is impossible to “direct” Johnny Depp.
The 46-year- old filmmaker admits he just took a back seat while making ‘ Yoga Hosers’ - in which the 53-year- old actor reprises his ‘ Tusk’ role of investigator Guy Lapointe - and let his friend do whatever he wanted with the role.
He said: “You don’t direct Johnny Depp. Seriously. You’re just like, ‘Whatever you wanna do boss, it’s totally OK with me.’”
And when Johnny asked if he could move his character’s distinctive moles around from scene to scene in the comic horror, Kevin was happy to agree.
He added: “I was never going to be like, ‘ You can’t do that s**t with the moles dude, this is a realistic film.’ Obviously not, we had Bratzis in it.”
The film stars Kevin’s own daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, and Johnny’s daughter Lily-Rose as a pair of teenage yoga enthusiasts who discover an infestation of Nazi bratwursts, known as Bratzis, in the convenience store where they work, which they set out to destroy with the help of Lapointe.
And when it came to directing the teenagers, all Kevin found he needed to do was show them back each takes as they would instantly spot their mistakes.
He told SciFiNow magazine: “It was really (expletive) easy because nobody wants to look cooler than a teenage girl.
“Nothing I say is going to mean as much as them watching themselves and going, ‘ I don’t look cool here. If I wanna look cool, I’d better do this.’
“I couldn’t direct 15-yearold girls on how to be 15year- old girls - I was never one myself.” — BANG Showbiz
Julian Fellowes, ‘Downton’ creator
keep ourselves available for dates in the future. But nobody has seen a script.”
Joanne Froggatt - who portrayed Anna Smith in the period drama for five years - set tongues wagging last year when she revealed that Julian Fellowes had penned the script for the forthcoming blockbuster.
She said at the time: “We’ve all heard that the script has been written.
“There’s a hard copy somewhere but none of us have seen it or know what’s in it.
“So we’ll all keep our fingers crossed that it all comes together. We’re all willing it to happen. I’d absolutely jump at the chance to star in it if I’m asked. I’ll squeeze it in.”
Viewers were thrown into mourning in 2015 when ‘ Downton...’ came to a dramatic end following five years on screen but creator Julian has always shared his burning desire to turn the drama into a film.
He said: “Let’s just say it’s not me slowing things down. The difficulty is rounding up the actors. One is in America making a new series, another is in a play ... My lips are sealed! It’s very unlikely there won’t be a film because there is an audience out there for it. I do hope there is going to be a ‘Downton Abbey’ film. It’s going to be fun once everything is sorted but we just need to restructure it.”