Johnny Depp Compares Photoshoots to Physical Abuse

Johnny Depp doesn’t like it when his personal life attracts media attention; neither does he like to talk about it in interviews. According to his latest, in Vanity Fair, this star doesn’t like doing photoshoots either.

Depp landed (again) the cover of Vanity Fair and, in the excerpts from the interview made available online, he talks about fame, money, privacy and doing promotion work for his films.

None of the comments he made was as inflammatory as that in which he compares doing photoshoots to being physically abused.

“Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow. It feels like a kind of weird – just weird, man,” he told the magazine, as cited by PageSix.

He has no problem posing for pictures with fans, but he draws the line at photoshoots.

“But whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like – you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid,” the star explained.

For those thinking why doesn’t he just quit the business if he finds it so “dumb,” Depp says that he’s still making movies because he’s thinking mostly of his children.

“Basically, if they’re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I’m going to take it,” Depp, one of the highest paid actors of our times, says for the publication.

“I have to. I mean, it’s not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it’s for my kids. It’s ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It’s for the kids,” he explains, before adding that, regardless, he still needs “this kind of stimulation” before starting work on a new project.

As expected, his comments have already caused quite a ruckus online, with RAINN offering to “educate” him on what this heinous crime actually does to people, whereas he walks out unharmed from a magazine photoshoot.