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In the new Tim Burton documentary series Life in the Line, Johnny Depp says Burton made “huge sacrifices” for Depp’s family while he and the director were filming 2007’s Sweeney Todd
Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose developed a serious illness during production of the movie
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Johnny Depp is reflecting on the lengths Tim Burton went to in order to allow him to continue filming the 2007 film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street when the actor’s daughter Lily-Rose Depp developed a serious illness.
Depp, 62, discusses his longtime friendship with Burton, 67, throughout filmmaker Tara Wood’s new four-part docuseries Tim Burton: Life in the Line. In the series’ third episode, the actor says he considered Burton, who directed him in Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory between 1990 and 2005, “a part of my family” by the time they adapted the famous Stephen Sondheim musical for the big screen.
“Tim made huge sacrifices on Sweeney,” Depp says, noting that his daughter Lily-Rose, who was only 7 at the time, developed a form of kidney failure during that movie’s production. (Depp shares Lily-Rose, now 26, and son Jack, 23, with ex Vanessa Paradis.)
“Her kidneys were shutting down. She had contracted E. coli. They put her on dialysis, and I had to call Tim and basically say, ‘Hey man, I’m going to have to drop out of Sweeney. I’m sorry, but I can’t work until my baby’s better,’ ” Depp recalls in the documentary. “And [Burton] went ‘No. Don’t even talk like that, man. Whatever we have to do, we’ll do. She’s going to be fine. We’ll make it work.’ “
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From left: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton on the set of 2007’s ‘Sweeney Todd’
Depp recalls that he and Paradis, now 52, “lived in that hospital for a good three, three and-a-half weeks” while Lily-Rose was sick. “Tim, of course, being Tim, came by the day after I called and brought flowers, the great uncle and godfather that he is,” he adds. “Pretty special, very lucky.”
Depp is among a number of Burton’s friends and frequent collaborators who appear throughout Life in the Line, including Burton’s former partner and Depp’s Sweeney Todd costar Helena Bonham Carter. Derek Frey, a producer who has worked with Burton since the 1990s, recalls in the docuseries that production on Sweeney Todd “shut down for a couple of weeks” while Depp stayed by Lily-Rose’s side.
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Leah Gallo/Dreamworks/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp in 2007’s Sweeney Todd.
“We’re exploring some dark themes in that film, really tough stuff, and here’s a character who is introspective and fighting demons and drawn to spill blood and seeking vengeance,” Frey, 52, says.
“And then [Depp is] going through this really dark, heavy real thing going on in his personal life. So that definitely, at least for a time, shaded a little bit of the production. My assessment is that there’s points in that movie where you’re seeing real emotion come through, like he’s channeling what he’s going through personally.”
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