Depp on Hiatus Until Daughter Is Better
Johnny Depp is trading in Fleet Street for Recovery Row.
The star of the upcoming Sweeney Todd said that he won't be working again until his seven-year-old daughter Lily-Rose is fully recovered from the undisclosed illness she has been suffering from for the past several weeks.
Lily-Rose, the elder of Depp's two children with longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, was discharged Mar. 9 from a London hospital, with the actor's rep saying the child was "doing much better."
Production on the Tim Burton-directed film—the auteur's sixth collaboration with Depp—has been suspended until the actor is ready to come back. He and Paradis are currently looking after their daughter at their home in Bath.
"We've adjusted his schedule to fit in with his needs," read a statement issued by DreamWorks last week. "Everybody's with them in good spirits."
The crew at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, which is also where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was filmed, has been told that it's out of a job if Depp does not return to the set.
"He does not want to come back until Lily-Rose gets the all-clear," a source close to the film told the U.K.'s Sun newspaper. "The plan is to reemploy everybody when she is better."
In Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the Tony-winning Stephen Sondheim musical, Depp takes on the role of the vengeful Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Sacha Baron Cohen, flush from his Borat travels, plays Todd's rival barber, Signor Adolfo Pirelli. Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Christopher Lee also star.
Already in the can is Depp's third turn as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, due to invade theaters and bag serious box office booty May 25.
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