Playbill
May, 2004
After years of balancing arty projects with popcorn flicks, Johnny Depp nabbed an Academy Award nomination for a perfect combination of the two, playing the swashbuckling Keith Richards—oops, we mean Captain Jack Sparrow—in last summer's smash Pirates of the Caribbean. Did Depp have Oscar expectations? "That was not in any way in the cards," reports Bernard Weinraub, whom we nominated to meet Depp for this month's Playboy Interview. "With his public persona, I didn't know what to...
