Did Johnny Depp live up to his reputation as a practical joker during filming?
A. He is a big practical joker, and there was one that worked an absolute treat. For the scene where we all go to dinner at the Barries’ house, it’s all about unspoken tension and at the same time how amusing the environment is to the boys. We knew that there were going to have to be some spontaneous bursts of laughter coming from them, but how can you tell a group of small children to laugh between this line and that line? So Johnny brought a fart machine to work. He placed it somewhere out of sight, and operated it by remote control. There are about six different types of fart on this machine, and throughout the scene he would press the button and there’d be this noise. The boys had no idea that this was going to happen, I really thought that one of them was going to wet himself, he was laughing so much. And so we had this constant stream of explosive giggles and sniggers. They just thought that someone was farting, in fact they thought it was Julie Christie! Then I said that actuall
