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Johnny Depp's Cameo

posted 19 years ago by lime6inthecoconut
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Johnny Depp has a few weird and funny cameos in this movie as a poster on a wall that comes to life for 2 seconds and later in the movie the main character ends up meeting with him after a fictional conversation they both had all in the guy's head....its a smart cameo choice from Depp...out of all these hollywood over-exposed celeberties his the only one i like....he has become a famous actor yet somewhat still holds on to his authentcity and originality in choosing characters to play in films.

[–] Kolzig73 19 years ago

Johnny's cameo performance in LA Without a map was superb.
Nicely done.

[–] Creampuff1991 19 years ago

cool. anyone have any pics of it? I haven't seen it.

Thanks.
~~Creampuff~~
Good morning starshine, the earth says hello!

[–] johnnydeppsfan 18 years ago

I call this the sailor hat cameo.

[–] LindaMChristie 17 years ago

Fortunately it's been posted on YouTube.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_hsV9Lrb0)

[–] natazzle 18 years ago

In the book, it was actually Jack Nicholson he met, but he didn't have a talking poster of him. Was a good book actually, so different from the film.

[–] henriwr 17 years ago

Did you know that Johnny Depp made the comeo for free. He was so eager to be in a Mika Kaurismäki film that he didn´t want to accept any salary for his acting.

[–] henri-honkala 17 years ago

Eager to be in a Mika Kaurismäki movie....? Dont thinks so.

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[–] rduke8624 17 years ago

"Eager to be in a Mika Kaurismäki movie....? Dont thinks so."

so you're johnny depp?

[–] patriciacarrasco 16 years ago

The Johnny Depp Cameo is in character as he appears in the movie of DEAD MAN, of Jarmush. I wonder if they are scenes of the movie or cut scenes, or if he made them specially for L.A. without a Map.

[–] aplsdka 16 years ago

oh ok, so at the cemetery he's in the character from dead man? Then at the theater or w/e is he johnny depp? his cameo kind of confused me

[–] mistergallo66 16 years ago

I was told he was in this movie as a favour to Vincent Gallo because they made friends while making Arizona Dream, but i dont know if thats true.

[–] BloodBarn 16 years ago

I wonder if they are scenes of the movie or cut scenes, or if he made them specially for L.A. without a Map

that is exactly what i came to this board to know.

It's not like the movies, they fed us on little white lies

[–] Thami_Gan 15 years ago

Johnny Depp in fact is a fan of the Kaurismäki brothers. He met Mika at a film festival and told Mika that he wanted to be in one of his movies. Mika Kaurismäki was holding a paper napkin and told Depp to eat the napkin if he really wanted to appear in his film (presumably as a joke). Depp then followed the order and actually ate the napkin and ended up cameoing in LA Without Map.

And that's a true story! Depp has also expressed his desire to appear in Aki's movie also, but this is unlikely to happen as Aki does mainly domestic stuff these days.

[–] prettybrowneyes86 11 years ago

He's actually in it. He sits on a park bench with David Tennant and they eat fried chicken. It's fairly awesome. And there's another scene that he's actually in, too. It's not just cut in from other stuff.

[–] Stoshie 11 years ago

"Doing a cameo for free" is redundant. The very definition of a cameo is someone taking a small role, or making a brief appearance, in a film without either a credit or payment.

[–] jalola298 9 years ago

That's funny about Nicholson. There was a brief bit with a Nicholson look alike. Homage to the book, I suppose.