'It's like being raped': Johnny Depp causes outrage after comparing photo shoots to sexual abuse

Last updated at 1:03 AM on 5th October 2011

Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp has sparked controversy after comparing photo shoots to 'being raped'.
The 48-year-old, who is one of the highest paid actors in the world raking in a whopping $50 million last year, made the comments while complaining about the downside of fame.
The statement, made in the new issue of Vanity Fair, has outraged anti-sexual violence groups. 

Controversial: Johnny Depp likened being photographed to 'being raped' during an interview in November's Vanity Fair

'You just feel like you're being raped somehow,' he said. 'Raped... It feels like a kind of weird... just weird, man.'
Clearly not a fan of the process, he then went on to call them 'dumb' and 'stupid'.
'Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it's like... you just feel dumb. It's just so stupid,' he told the publication.
RAINN, the Rape And Incest National Network, have now been left outraged by comments made by the actor.
A spokeswomen for the organisation, Katherine Hull, told RadarOnline.com that they would love a  chance to speak to Depp and 'educate him about the real life experience faced by survivors every day.'

Not a fan: Clearly not a fan of the process, he then went on to photo shoots 'dumb' and 'stupid'

'While photos may feel at times intrusive, being photographed in no way compares to rape, a violent crime which affects another American every 2 minutes,' Hull told the website.
'RAINN welcomes the opportunity to speak with Mr. Depp and educate him about the real life experiences faced by survivors every day, and ways that he can work with RAINN to help.'
Depp isn't the first star to make the contrast; Twilight's Kristen Stewart made a similar comparison whilst talking about being photographed by the paparazzi.
'I feel like I'm looking at someone being raped. A lot of the time I can't handle it. I never expected that this would be my life,' she said.
'What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.
'All you see is an actor or a celebrity lit up... Your little persona is made up of all the places that people have seen you and what has been said about you.'
She too came under-fire from advocacy groups, and later said she was 'sorry' for her comments. 

'I really made an enormous mistake – clearly and obviously. And I'm really sorry about my choice of words,' she said.
Depp is no stranger to making controversial comments.
In 2003, he told Germany's Stern magazine that he thought his native country, the United States, was also 'dumb'.
'America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth — that can bite and hurt you, aggressive,' he said.
Following the printed interview, Depp said that his quotes were take out of context, but the magazine upheld the story.
Likewise CNN also stood by their own story, in which they added another quote reportedly made by the actor stating that he wanted his young children 'to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.'

Later Depp contested ensuing media reports that dubbed the actor a 'European wannabe'.

Rather, he explained that he preferred living in Europe because he liked the anonymity of living in France and a having a simpler life there with his partner Vanessa Paradis and children, daughter Lily-Rose, now 12, and son John 'Jack' Christopher Depp III, nine.

Minted: Between May 2010 and May 2011, Depp, seen here at this year's GQ Awards with Pirate Of The Caribbean co-star Keith Richards earned $50 million

In his latest interview with Vanity Fair, the actor also revealed that he attended Scientology study classes after moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, because they paid $3 a session for  people to sit through them.
'I went to a bunch, man. It was so great, it was so fantastic,' Depp said in the interview.
Times have certainly changed for the actor these days.
Between May 2010 and May 2011, Depp earned $50 million, and the year before he earned $75 million, landing him second on the list of this year's Forbes Highest Paid Actors List, after Leonardo DiCaprio.
Depp is currently filming Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.
He plays vampire Barnabas Collins in the film based on the the 60′s daily supernatural series of the same name.
It tells the story of Barnabas, a tortured vampire who is searching for his long lost love.
Barnabas was a wealthy playboy in Collinsport, Maine and master of Collinwood Manor in the 18th century.

New project: Depp is currently filming Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

But he was turned into a bloodsucker by witch Angelique Bouchard, played by Eva Green, after he broke her heart and after being buried alive, is free 200 years later and returns to his manor to find his dysfunctional descendants living there.
The film, which is due for release in May 2012, also stars Michelle Pfeiffer as the estate matriarch Elizabeth Collins, Johnny Lee Miller as her wayward brother Roger and Chloë Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard, Elizabeth's rebellious teenage daughter.
Written by Seth Grahame-Smith, who wrote the best-seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it also stars Burton's partner Helena Bonham Carter as psychiatrist Dr Julia Hoffman.

By Daily Mail Reporter

Johnny Depp: “If They’re Going to Pay Me The Stupid Money Right Now, I’m Going to Take It”

By Vanity Fair

12:00 AM, October 4 2011

Photographs by Terry Richardson. Styled by Jessica Diehl. Consulting Stylist, Samantha McMillen.

He’s Hollywood’s best-paid actor, but he doesn’t have to like it: “Basically, if they’re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I’m going to take it,” he says in Vanity Fair’s November issue. “I have to. I mean, it’s not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it’s for my kids. It’s ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It’s for the kids.” He admits, with much difficulty, that there is also “a part of me that needs to have this kind of stimulation to the brain.” (Depp is ever mum on the size of his Pirates ransom, but a report this summer cited his total take in the $300 million range, due to a gross-profit-sharing deal brokered with Disney. The four-film franchise has tallied $3.7 billion to date in worldwide receipts.)
But Nick Tosches, Depp friend of a decade and writer of this month’s cover profile, says the Rum Diary actor is “the same old Johnny” who pumped gas to make ends meet and for a period attended Scientology study groups because they paid $3 per meeting. “I went to a bunch, man. It was so great, it was so fantastic,” Depp says. Today, compliments from rock idols mean more to the actor than cash. During the interview, Tosches shared with Depp that their mutual buddy Keith Richards, the professed inspiration behind Captain Jack Sparrow, had “beautiful things to say” about Depp’s singing in Sweeney Todd. “He never told me that,” Depp says, touched. Take that one to the bank.

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