Depp to play Pee, Wee Herman
Johnny Depp To Star As Pee-wee Herman?....
Johnny Depp is considering an offer to star in two forthcoming Pee-Wee Herman movies, playing the legendary kids' character.Paul Reubens, who played Pee-Wee in TV shows and films until 1990, has completed two scripts he hopes to bring to the big screen in 2009.Reubens hopes to reprise the role himself, but admits he has also spoken to his Blow co-star Depp about taking on the part.Reubens tells Mtv, "(He said) Let me think about it".Besides appearing together in Blow, the two actors are also linked through director Tim Burton - one of regular Depp-collaborator Burton's first films was 1985's Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure.Johnny Depp never wants to win an Oscar - because he hates getting up in front of huge audiences.Meanwhile the 44-year-old actor was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 for his role as Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, and again in 2004 for his part in Finding Neverland.But he has never actually won the coveted accolade - and he never wants to.
He says, "I don't want to get up in front of all these people and thank them.
It scares the shit out of me! The nomination was enough for me. I felt very honoured. It's not really about the awards, though, it's about the work for me.
I just love acting".
* Jack Nicholson On No Country Sheriff And Aging
Jack Nicholson is disappointed he wasn't considered for the role of grizzled sheriff Ed Tom Bell in acclaimed new drama No Country For Old Men - because it was a part he really wanted.
The movie icon reveals he loved Cormac McCarthy's book but had no idea a film was being made, or he'd have lobbied for the part which Tommy Lee Jones landed.
Nicholson says, "I didn't even know they were going to make it into a movie when I read it but Tommy's a personal friend of Cormac's so I wouldn't have had a shot, I guess".
Meanwhile, the actor admits there are a few roles he'd like to revisit: "Bobby Dupea from Five Easy Pieces is one. I thought, 'Where would he go? Did he go to Europe and play the piano?' Who he was was very typical of America at that moment.
"The same is true of the military guy Billy Buddusky in The Last Detail. This thought came to me because (novelist) Darryl Ponicsan wrote a sequel to The Last Detail" Meanwhile the Hollywood legend can only find one downside to ageing - his friends keep dying.
The veteran actor is embracing old age, and although he's helped by his teenage children, he still struggles to deal with the constant grief he feels for lost pals.
Nicholson, 70 says, "We all want to go on forever. I can't bear the number of funerals you go to once you get older. I have to find a way to adjust to loss or sentence myself to a life of grieving.
"So I focus on the immediate, on my children".
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