‘The Idol’ actor, Lily-Rose Depp said that she was traumatized after watching her father Johnny Depp’s movie ‘Edward Scissorhands‘ (1990), during her childhood where his character plays a mutant but a kind boy with blades instead of fingers.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, she went vocal about how she felt bad for his character. Depp said, “I was traumatized by it”. “Not because I thought he was scary, but because everyone was being so mean to him and I got really upset”, she added. Lily mentions how she feared the character and the movie, even though she hardly has any memory of her childhood. She even refused to watch it ever since. She expressed, “I remember being petrified by that, which is weird because I don’t have many memories from when I was that young”.
Lily-Rose Depp’s upcoming movie ‘Nosferatu’, set in the 1830s, is about an estate agent and how he meets a prospective client. Soon, things get twisted when the agent’s wife is left with her friends and encounters an evil force, witnessing the dreadful visuals and disturbing gut feelings.
Humourously, she makes a comparison between the movies, “It’s a difficult childhood memory. Edward’s the good guy and Nosferatu’s kind of the bad guy, but there’s a part of me that feels a little bit of empathy for Nosferatu. I mean, am I sick for feeling that way?”
An ancient Transylvanian vampire, ‘Nosferatu’, is also the name of her film which is an adaptation of German director F W Murnau’s 1922 silent horror film which was based on Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel “Dracula”.
Depp enjoyed the gothic parts of the movie. “I’m interested in the darker underbelly of things,” she added. “As an actor, you hope that your role will be as meaty as can be, so you have as much to dive into as possible because nothing is straightforwardly dark, it’s the most complicated stuff”, she expressed about her role in her new film, which will be releasing on January 10, 2025, in India.
