Johnny Depp admitted that saying goodbye to the character of John Dillinger was tough.
The actor was in London this week to promote his new gangster movie Public Enemies in which he plays America's most famous bank robber John Dillinger in the 1930's Depression.
Speaking in a press conference he said: "Saying goodbye to Dillinger, the funny thing is you don't really say goodbye there's a chest of draws in here (points to his heart) where you can always access these guys and they are always around, but saying goodbye to Dillinger was like saying goodbye to a relative.
"The most difficult to say goodbye to... Scissorhands was rough, the safety of allowing yourself to be that honest and be that pure to be that exposed that was hard to say goodbye to.
"And Wilmot, Lord Rochester on The Libertine, was incredibly tough because I felt that it was a very intense forty something days where I had to ultimately be that guy, I felt a deep sense of responsibility, and so it was like a marathon and in the end the light goes out and it goes black."
Public Enemies sees a return to the big screen of Depp since his Oscar nominated turn in Sweeney Todd: The Demon barber of Fleet Street at the beginning of 2008.
But this movie, which teams him with filmmaker Michael Mann, kicks off a busy schedule for the actor with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus to be released later this year as well as Alice in Wonderland and The Rum Diaries in post production.
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