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In the new Tim Burton documentary series Life in the Line<\/em>, Johnny Depp says Burton made “huge sacrifices” for Depp’s family while he and the director were filming 2007’s Sweeney Todd<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose developed a serious illness during production of the movie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Tim Burton: Life in the Line<\/em> is available for purchase and streaming now<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Johnny Depp<\/a> is reflecting on the lengths Tim Burton<\/a> went to in order to allow him to continue filming the 2007 film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street<\/em><\/a> when the actor’s daughter Lily-Rose Depp<\/a> developed a serious illness.<\/p>\n Depp, 62, discusses his longtime friendship with Burton, 67, throughout filmmaker Tara Wood’s new four-part docuseries Tim Burton: Life in the Line<\/em><\/a>. In the series’ third episode, the actor says he considered Burton, who directed him in Edward Scissorhands,<\/em> Ed Wood<\/em>, Sleepy Hollow<\/em>, Corpse Bride <\/em>and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory <\/em>between 1990 and 2005, “a part of my family” by the time they adapted the famous Stephen Sondheim<\/a> musical for the big screen.<\/p>\n “Tim made huge sacrifices on Sweeney<\/em>,” 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<\/a> Lily-Rose, now 26, and son Jack, 23, with ex Vanessa Paradis<\/a>.)<\/p>\n “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.’ “<\/p>\n