Johnny Depp Reveals That Nicolas Cage Helped Him Become An Actor By Accident

There’s a lot coming out of the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial at the moment, mainly concerning his alleged horrific actions against her, but there’s also this crazy story about how he only became an actor due to a little bit of a push from Nicolas Cage.

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This is a fucking crazy story so strap in for this one:

#JohnnyDepp told the jury about how he once met with #NicolasCage’s agent and became an actor by “accident.” @LawCrimeNetwork pic.twitter.com/Zd9hJB2R6W

— Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) April 19, 2022

I remember I was filling out job applications with a friend of mine who happens to be, he was an actor, less known than he is now, Nicolas Cage.

And I was filling out job applications, you know, video stores, clothing stores, anything just to be able to pay the rent and Nic Cage said, ‘Why don’t you meet my agent, because I think you could be an actor.’

I said, ‘I’ll meet anybody, I’ll do anything at this point.’ And so he sent me to his agent Ilene Feldman.

She sent me to read for a casting director named Annette Benson, who was casting a film called A Nightmare on Elm Street and they brought me back to read for the director Wes Craven and I read for Wes Craven and somehow got the job.

But I mean I was by no means an actor, I didn’t have any desire to be an actor, I was a musician.

Lol what? Depp was just a struggling guitarist in a band called ‘The Kids’ back in 1984, then suddenly he’s in ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ and on his way to becoming one of the most famous and successful actors of the last 40 years because fucking Nicolas Cage thought it might be a good idea for him to give it a shot? You literally couldn’t make that shit up – how does stuff like that just end up happening to people like that? Bastards.

Anyway, although that’s a completely mental story, it probably shouldn’t distract us from the real reasons that this trial is going on and all the awful things that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have collectively done to each other. Take a read of all these if you haven’t been keeping up.