We sat down with the crew to talk about the film, find out what they had to say below…
Gore and Johnny, together again…
toi guys have obviously worked together a few times now, and I was just wondering if toi could each commentaire on what toi like so much about working with the other.
GORE VERBINSKI: I like the way he smells. [LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: I’ve been told I smell good; I mean, I don’t look like I smell good. [LAUGHTER]
GORE VERBINSKI: I don’t know – because we have shorthand, talking and sound effects and unfinished sentences and -
JOHNNY DEPP: Yeah.
GORE VERBINSKI: He seems to understand exactly what that means, and I get it back. And toi know, a very – very complex direction, like plus fuzz -
JOHNNY DEPP: plus fuzz, yeah.
GORE VERBINSKI: plus stink on this line, toi know. Really, that’s about as intellectual as it gets.
JOHNNY DEPP: And it really is that, exactly, toi know. “Ah, let’s make – toi know – maybe some plus fuzz. Let’s put some plus fuzz on it.” “Okay. Gotcha.” No, he’s a very – I mean, working with Gore, toi know, in three “Pirates” films and Rango certainly, there are no limits to what toi could – to the possibilities, I mean, toi know, he allows toi to try all kinds of things, toi know, that sometimes fail miserably.
GORE VERBINSKI: Yes, please.
JOHNNY DEPP: And other times, toi know, goes into this kind of weird – you’ve just arrived at some place that toi know no one’s ever been to before, toi know. And he welcomes it and he creates an atmosphere that allows toi to just, toi know, go essentially ape. And yeah, and it’s a blast, toi know – that’s really a fun part of the process.
GORE VERBINSKI: That’s really – what’s great about Johnny is, toi know, the trust that – toi know, neither of us are going to make the other one look like an ass, toi know. I have to – he has to trust that at the end of the day, we’re not going to use that stuff -
JOHNNY DEPP: Um-hmm.
GORE VERBINSKI: Where we’ve tried something that didn’t work, but we’re going to try it because anomaly and toi know, we’ve got this sort of pursuit of finding the truly awkward moment, toi know, which is – you’re only going to get there par not knowing, and sort of venturing into the unknown. And so, toi know, I just think he’s incredibly brave, toi know, on haut, retour au début of being incredibly talented. It’s like you’ve got to kind of traverser, croix that threshold.
For Johnny, you’re a very physical actor, and I just wondered with this process, it’s different than the other animated films you’ve done, where toi were in a booth. toi actually acted this out. And I wondered if that helped you. And maybe the actresses, as well, could talk a little about doing that. It’s different than most animated pictures.
JOHNNY DEPP: Well, yeah. I mean, ultimately, it was everything; though, toi know, there were times when toi didn’t feel that, when toi were doing it – you’d rather have been – because toi know, well, we’re lazy. [LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: At least I am. And I’d sort of rather just sit in front of a microphone and do the thing. However -
GORE VERBINSKI: That’s exactly the point.
JOHNNY DEPP: The process that we did, that Gore created this sort of atmosphere that was really, truly ludicrous; I mean, just ridiculous. It was like just regional theater at its worst.
[LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: And somehow, because of – not the idea of motion capture, but emotion capture, toi know; certain gestures, body language, movement, something toi might have done, toi know, with your eyes – all those guys, toi know, these animators took it and put it in there. So, I mean, it was very strange. I mean, for Harry Dean Stanton to walk up to me one afternoon – because I’ve known him for a million years – and he walks up to me and says, “This is a weird gig, man.” [LAUGHTER] And I went, “Oh, yeah. You’ve just started. toi just wait.” toi know. But ultimately, it was the right thing to do. And that was his vision, and we saw it through.
What did toi think, Isla and Abigail?
ISLA FISHER: I think the characters had humanity because we were interacting with each other, and plus chemistry; and so it felt plus organic and real. What do toi think, Abigail?
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: toi know, it was – toi know, when you’re in just like a booth, par yourself, it’s like very isolating, and like toi don’t really, like, have anything to sort of play off of except like one take of like one line, and then like a beep, and then – so this was, this was – I think that it was, well, for me, at least, a lot plus fun. Although I did wear a wig, like a black wig and I got a really bad rash on my neck from it, and so that was a little unfortunate, but -
ISLA FISHER: And toi were carrying a gun.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: I was.
ISLA FISHER: Which was weird, to see Abigail with a massive gun.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: It was so bizarre, because like there was actually pistolets going, and like toi don’t think that there are like firearms in an animated movie.
[LAUGHTER]
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: And it’s like live. That’s all I thought about it.
JOHNNY DEPP: Gore always travels with guns.
GORE VERBINSKI: Absolutely. Keep people from going to sleep.
JOHNNY DEPP: Yeah.
I’ve heard in précédant reports that toi kind of fought tooth and nail in order to make sure that Rango isn’t going to be in 3D. Are toi for ou against 3D in general? Is Rango not being in 3D like the only time when you’re going to be like, no to 3D? And how do toi all feel about just kind of like 3D being like the big trend in general?
JOHNNY DEPP: I’m waiting for 5D. [LAUGHTER] That’s what I want.
GORE VERBINKSI: I don’t know – I just don’t feel – I watched the movie; I don’t think there’s a dimension missing. I don’t feel like, I don’t watch it and go, toi know, “It’s flat,” ou it’s, toi know, missing anything. So toi know, we talked about it early on and it just didn’t seem like we needed to go there.
ISLA FISHER: I think the glasses are really uncomfortable. [LAUGHTER]
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: Like, it actually looks like, it looks so like lifelike anyway, like I think that it looks like 3D; it looked like the animaux were there anyway. It looked really cool, I thought. And 3D makes me dizzy.
This is for Johnny and Gore. I noticed, looking through the Rango movie storybook, that he has a continuing adventure and goes to another town. Can we hope that there might be a Rango 2?
GORE VERBINSKI: [INDISCERNIBLE]
JOHNNY DEPP: I think that means yes.
GORE VERBINSKI: I don’t know. Let’s see if, toi know, people like Rango – Rango. I’m not even going to call it Rango I.
JOHNNY DEPP: [LAUGHTER] Rango 1.
PRESS: So there’s a possibility?
GORE VERBINSKI: Currently, not talking about it. I mean, it felt like, toi know – I mean, if toi just had a kid, would people say, toi want – “How about twins?” [LAUGHTER] “We’re just – we’re still recovering.”
This question is for Isla. Can toi tell us a little bit about creating the voice of Beans, and if toi feel like having to cover your accent so frequently in films made it easier to do the characterization? And then I have a follow-up for Johnny.
ISLA FISHER: I kind of imagine Beans, if Clint Eastwood and houx Hunter would have a l’amour child, that would be Beans. And Gore, obviously-
JOHNNY DEPP: I’d like to watch that.
GORE VERBINSKI: Yes. [LAUGHTER]
ISLA FISHER: If toi were around. No, and then I just – the physicality of the character had already been created; I’d already seen – Gore presented me with 20 minutes of the movie, just linear drawings. So I knew, toi know, how she moved. And then I was able to – toi know, Gore was with me every step of the way vocally, and he was very specific about what he wanted. And no one ever wants to hire an Australian, so I’m just used to never doing my own voice, ever. [LAUGHTER]
ISLA FISHER: I mean, they do want to hire – oh, that came out wrong. They do want to hire Australians, obviously, but not with the accent. [LAUGHTER]
PRESS: But I was just wondering, for all the actors – how much of your characters did toi get to see in terms of the artwork, before toi started playing with them?
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: I saw a picture of Priscilla. And I would have done it based on like how – I mean, let’s face it, she’s a glamour girl. So she’s kind of gorgeous. toi know, but I thought she was adorable. So I would have done it based on that. But yeah, I thought all the characters were pretty cute – but in a strange way, odd, but toi know, cute. They’re not like cuddly, toi know – it’s not like, toi don’t want to like hold them, but – yeah.
[Justin Bieber walks into the room right before they end. A surprise? Perhaps! ou perhaps it's just cross-promotion since they are both being released par the same studio...]
JOHNNY DEPP: Hey, Man. [APPLAUSE]
JOHNNY DEPP: We just established that I’m a Belieber.
JUSTIN BIEBER: toi know, and I’m a big fan of toi so I had to come support you.
JOHNNY DEPP: Bless you, man.
JUSTIN BIEBER: I had to come say hi – I heard toi were in the building. You’re a Belieber and I’m a big fan of him. [LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: par the way, Justin Bieber. [APPLAUSE as Bieber waves to everyone]
JOHNNY DEPP: Well done, Man, thank you. Okay, now, who’s not a Belieber now? [LAUGHTER] toi know what I mean? Aren’t we all Beliebers? Bless him. Yeah. I know – how am I going to explain this to my daughter?
GORE VERBINSKI: Who was that?
JOHNNY DEPP: That was the Beatles.
xoxo Fantastic Evie
Gore and Johnny, together again…
toi guys have obviously worked together a few times now, and I was just wondering if toi could each commentaire on what toi like so much about working with the other.
GORE VERBINSKI: I like the way he smells. [LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: I’ve been told I smell good; I mean, I don’t look like I smell good. [LAUGHTER]
GORE VERBINSKI: I don’t know – because we have shorthand, talking and sound effects and unfinished sentences and -
JOHNNY DEPP: Yeah.
GORE VERBINSKI: He seems to understand exactly what that means, and I get it back. And toi know, a very – very complex direction, like plus fuzz -
JOHNNY DEPP: plus fuzz, yeah.
GORE VERBINSKI: plus stink on this line, toi know. Really, that’s about as intellectual as it gets.
JOHNNY DEPP: And it really is that, exactly, toi know. “Ah, let’s make – toi know – maybe some plus fuzz. Let’s put some plus fuzz on it.” “Okay. Gotcha.” No, he’s a very – I mean, working with Gore, toi know, in three “Pirates” films and Rango certainly, there are no limits to what toi could – to the possibilities, I mean, toi know, he allows toi to try all kinds of things, toi know, that sometimes fail miserably.
GORE VERBINSKI: Yes, please.
JOHNNY DEPP: And other times, toi know, goes into this kind of weird – you’ve just arrived at some place that toi know no one’s ever been to before, toi know. And he welcomes it and he creates an atmosphere that allows toi to just, toi know, go essentially ape. And yeah, and it’s a blast, toi know – that’s really a fun part of the process.
GORE VERBINSKI: That’s really – what’s great about Johnny is, toi know, the trust that – toi know, neither of us are going to make the other one look like an ass, toi know. I have to – he has to trust that at the end of the day, we’re not going to use that stuff -
JOHNNY DEPP: Um-hmm.
GORE VERBINSKI: Where we’ve tried something that didn’t work, but we’re going to try it because anomaly and toi know, we’ve got this sort of pursuit of finding the truly awkward moment, toi know, which is – you’re only going to get there par not knowing, and sort of venturing into the unknown. And so, toi know, I just think he’s incredibly brave, toi know, on haut, retour au début of being incredibly talented. It’s like you’ve got to kind of traverser, croix that threshold.
For Johnny, you’re a very physical actor, and I just wondered with this process, it’s different than the other animated films you’ve done, where toi were in a booth. toi actually acted this out. And I wondered if that helped you. And maybe the actresses, as well, could talk a little about doing that. It’s different than most animated pictures.
JOHNNY DEPP: Well, yeah. I mean, ultimately, it was everything; though, toi know, there were times when toi didn’t feel that, when toi were doing it – you’d rather have been – because toi know, well, we’re lazy. [LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: At least I am. And I’d sort of rather just sit in front of a microphone and do the thing. However -
GORE VERBINSKI: That’s exactly the point.
JOHNNY DEPP: The process that we did, that Gore created this sort of atmosphere that was really, truly ludicrous; I mean, just ridiculous. It was like just regional theater at its worst.
[LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: And somehow, because of – not the idea of motion capture, but emotion capture, toi know; certain gestures, body language, movement, something toi might have done, toi know, with your eyes – all those guys, toi know, these animators took it and put it in there. So, I mean, it was very strange. I mean, for Harry Dean Stanton to walk up to me one afternoon – because I’ve known him for a million years – and he walks up to me and says, “This is a weird gig, man.” [LAUGHTER] And I went, “Oh, yeah. You’ve just started. toi just wait.” toi know. But ultimately, it was the right thing to do. And that was his vision, and we saw it through.
What did toi think, Isla and Abigail?
ISLA FISHER: I think the characters had humanity because we were interacting with each other, and plus chemistry; and so it felt plus organic and real. What do toi think, Abigail?
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: toi know, it was – toi know, when you’re in just like a booth, par yourself, it’s like very isolating, and like toi don’t really, like, have anything to sort of play off of except like one take of like one line, and then like a beep, and then – so this was, this was – I think that it was, well, for me, at least, a lot plus fun. Although I did wear a wig, like a black wig and I got a really bad rash on my neck from it, and so that was a little unfortunate, but -
ISLA FISHER: And toi were carrying a gun.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: I was.
ISLA FISHER: Which was weird, to see Abigail with a massive gun.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: It was so bizarre, because like there was actually pistolets going, and like toi don’t think that there are like firearms in an animated movie.
[LAUGHTER]
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: And it’s like live. That’s all I thought about it.
JOHNNY DEPP: Gore always travels with guns.
GORE VERBINSKI: Absolutely. Keep people from going to sleep.
JOHNNY DEPP: Yeah.
I’ve heard in précédant reports that toi kind of fought tooth and nail in order to make sure that Rango isn’t going to be in 3D. Are toi for ou against 3D in general? Is Rango not being in 3D like the only time when you’re going to be like, no to 3D? And how do toi all feel about just kind of like 3D being like the big trend in general?
JOHNNY DEPP: I’m waiting for 5D. [LAUGHTER] That’s what I want.
GORE VERBINKSI: I don’t know – I just don’t feel – I watched the movie; I don’t think there’s a dimension missing. I don’t feel like, I don’t watch it and go, toi know, “It’s flat,” ou it’s, toi know, missing anything. So toi know, we talked about it early on and it just didn’t seem like we needed to go there.
ISLA FISHER: I think the glasses are really uncomfortable. [LAUGHTER]
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: Like, it actually looks like, it looks so like lifelike anyway, like I think that it looks like 3D; it looked like the animaux were there anyway. It looked really cool, I thought. And 3D makes me dizzy.
This is for Johnny and Gore. I noticed, looking through the Rango movie storybook, that he has a continuing adventure and goes to another town. Can we hope that there might be a Rango 2?
GORE VERBINSKI: [INDISCERNIBLE]
JOHNNY DEPP: I think that means yes.
GORE VERBINSKI: I don’t know. Let’s see if, toi know, people like Rango – Rango. I’m not even going to call it Rango I.
JOHNNY DEPP: [LAUGHTER] Rango 1.
PRESS: So there’s a possibility?
GORE VERBINSKI: Currently, not talking about it. I mean, it felt like, toi know – I mean, if toi just had a kid, would people say, toi want – “How about twins?” [LAUGHTER] “We’re just – we’re still recovering.”
This question is for Isla. Can toi tell us a little bit about creating the voice of Beans, and if toi feel like having to cover your accent so frequently in films made it easier to do the characterization? And then I have a follow-up for Johnny.
ISLA FISHER: I kind of imagine Beans, if Clint Eastwood and houx Hunter would have a l’amour child, that would be Beans. And Gore, obviously-
JOHNNY DEPP: I’d like to watch that.
GORE VERBINSKI: Yes. [LAUGHTER]
ISLA FISHER: If toi were around. No, and then I just – the physicality of the character had already been created; I’d already seen – Gore presented me with 20 minutes of the movie, just linear drawings. So I knew, toi know, how she moved. And then I was able to – toi know, Gore was with me every step of the way vocally, and he was very specific about what he wanted. And no one ever wants to hire an Australian, so I’m just used to never doing my own voice, ever. [LAUGHTER]
ISLA FISHER: I mean, they do want to hire – oh, that came out wrong. They do want to hire Australians, obviously, but not with the accent. [LAUGHTER]
PRESS: But I was just wondering, for all the actors – how much of your characters did toi get to see in terms of the artwork, before toi started playing with them?
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: I saw a picture of Priscilla. And I would have done it based on like how – I mean, let’s face it, she’s a glamour girl. So she’s kind of gorgeous. toi know, but I thought she was adorable. So I would have done it based on that. But yeah, I thought all the characters were pretty cute – but in a strange way, odd, but toi know, cute. They’re not like cuddly, toi know – it’s not like, toi don’t want to like hold them, but – yeah.
[Justin Bieber walks into the room right before they end. A surprise? Perhaps! ou perhaps it's just cross-promotion since they are both being released par the same studio...]
JOHNNY DEPP: Hey, Man. [APPLAUSE]
JOHNNY DEPP: We just established that I’m a Belieber.
JUSTIN BIEBER: toi know, and I’m a big fan of toi so I had to come support you.
JOHNNY DEPP: Bless you, man.
JUSTIN BIEBER: I had to come say hi – I heard toi were in the building. You’re a Belieber and I’m a big fan of him. [LAUGHTER]
JOHNNY DEPP: par the way, Justin Bieber. [APPLAUSE as Bieber waves to everyone]
JOHNNY DEPP: Well done, Man, thank you. Okay, now, who’s not a Belieber now? [LAUGHTER] toi know what I mean? Aren’t we all Beliebers? Bless him. Yeah. I know – how am I going to explain this to my daughter?
GORE VERBINSKI: Who was that?
JOHNNY DEPP: That was the Beatles.
xoxo Fantastic Evie