Johnny Depp is the cover guy for the latest issue of “Vanity Fair” and he talks about everything from comparing Angelina Jolie to Elizabeth Taylor to all of the characters he portrays being gay.

Who knew?!??

When talking about Angelina Jolie, he said, “Meeting her and getting to know her was a real pleasant surprise. You don’t know what she might be like – if she has any sense of humor at all. I was so pleased to find that she is incredibly normal, and has a wonderfully kind of dark, perverse sense of humor.”

On the set of their new movie, “The Tourist”, he talked about the media scrutiny on set, saying, “Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and her husband, Brad…all their kids. There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”

He went on to reveal that they had to be discreet filming with Angie, saying that they were “having to hide, sometimes not even being able to talk to each other in public places because someone will take a photograph and it will be misconstrued and turned into some other sh*t.”

Johnny went on to compare Angelina to Elizabeth Taylor, saying, “I’ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she’s hilarious. Angie’s got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach.”

When asked what it was like playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow, he said, “Somebody once asked Hunter S. Thompson, ‘What is the sound of one hand clapping, Hunter?’ and he smacked him. Captain Jack was kind of like that for me, an opening up of this part of yourself. There is a little Bugs Bunny in all of us.”

Of Disney’s reaction to Captain Jack, he revealed, “They couldn’t stand him. I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie.’ Upper echelon Disney-ites, going, ‘What’s wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?’ And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite, ‘But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?’ Which really made her nervous.”

“Vanity Fair” reports:

Elsewhere in the interview, Depp talks to Smith about their shared fondness for the Monkees’ 60s pop hit “Daydream Believer”; the music career he almost had (“Going into acting was an odd deviation from a particular road that I was on in my late teens, early 20s, because I had no desire, no interest, really, in it at all. I was a musician and I was a guitarist, and that’s what I wanted to do”); being born in the wrong time (“I really believe that, at a certain point, if you’re born in ’60-something or whatever, you got ripped off—you know what I mean? I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time”); and what he’d still like to accomplish: “[Marlon Brando said,] Why don’t you just take a year and go and study Shakespeare, or go and study Hamlet. Go and work on Hamlet and play that part. Play that part before you’re too old…. So what he was trying to tell me was: play that f-cking part, man. Play that part before you’re too long in the tooth. Play it. And I would like to. I’d really, really like to.”

Who knew that Captain Jack was gay? Or even Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, for that matter?

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