When my family lived in California, my brother and I both did some acting. I was hopeless and managed only a few small parts in commercials and stuff. My brother was the one with the talent and to this day I think that if we hadn't move to New Zealand, he would have made it big.

A few days after my seventeenth b-day, we both got a call saying we were to be extras in the movie Cry Baby! At first I was bumbed cause I wanted a big part, but I got over that and was all psyched to be in a big movie! OF course, I didn't know Johnny Depp was in it until just before filming started.

I was supposed to be a drape, so was my bro, but at the last minute they dropped me saying they had 'over casted'. My brother got to keep his role, and when he came home and told me who was in the movie I almost died! My bro is in heaps of scenes. The part were Cry Baby sings 'Tear Drops are Falling' and he's in the crowd when he does the cry baby song. In fact he is in a lot more than that, but you don't see him in the others. He met Johnny heaps of times, and they even had a smoke together while waiting for filming to start one day.

On the last day of filming, I was spilling over with stories about Johnny my bro had told me. Like how when at the end were Alison comes to the jail and they are doing that bit were she's rubbing up against the glass, Johnny kept on laughing and the chick got really pissed off! I think that's so cool! And also the rumours about Johnny and the woman playing Alison falling in love was complete bull, because they didn't really get along at all, in fact, apparently when they were filming, they hardly said a word to each other!

But on the last day of filming, the whole cast, including extras, were invited to a little party to say thanks and goodbye. I was so jealous he got to go socialize with the spunkiest guy ever, until he told me I could go!! Apparently he had told the director, and Johnny about how I had been dropped, and how disappointed I was, so they said I could come and meet every body!!!AHHHH!

Now be honest, wouldn't you spend half a year trying to make your self look gorg so one look and Johnny would fall madly in love with you? Well I would have liked to, but my darling brother told me about three seconds before he left, so I left the house in a pair of baggy, holey jeans, and a little tank top! I must have looked like crap but I probably would have gone in a pair of PJs to meet Johnny-god-how-could-he-be-that-fine-Depp!

When we got there, it wasn't like I had thought it would be, all there was was a few tables set out under a tent thing, with heaps of food and drink. I was the only one there who wasn't dressed to kill, well, out of the girls anyway! They must have had the same thing, or person, on their minds, and were using all their acting ability to try not to act like they were drooling over Johnny who sat quietly in the corner with the director. We stood around a few minutes, then the director said a few words which I didn't really care about considering I was in the same room with the love of my life!*S*(Hey, I was seventeen!)

Just before we left, everyone went around shaking hands with cast, and producers etc, including me because I guess they just thought I was one of the extras they hadn't noticed before. We shook hands with the stars, like the woman who played Hatchet Face (who's not so bad looking in real life by the way) and Alison, who was really nice and said 'hi how are you's' to every one.

When Johnny was like a meter away from me I started panicking, if he shock my hand I would never be able to love another because I would always compare them to Johnny! But nevertheless as he got closer I decided I would have to take that chance!*S* To my surprise, when he got to my brother he proved that he hadn't been full of it when he said he had talked to him. JOHNNY DEPP SHOCK MY BROTHERS HAND AND GOES: "Hey Jake(My bro), how's it going man..." My brother didn't even flinch, just turned to me and goes. "This is my sister..." I could have killed him! I thought he was going to say some thing like "She's such a loser she made me bring her". But instead Johnny smiled at me! AHHHH!!! And goes. "Nice to meet you. Your brother told me you got kicked off the extras list..." He held out his hand and I felt about two feet tall. Yah, I thought, this is a good impression. I took his hand and he added; "Don't worry about it, this business can be shit like that, just keep your foot in the door, and some one will notice you..." Then he said some thing else to my bro that I didn't hear cause he said it softly and the room was noisy, but my brother recons he goes... "She's pretty, she'll go far" But I think he's full of it. Still, wouldn't it be cool if it was what he said?

As he was about to walk off he goes "Remember, keep trying okay...?" I nodded, and all I could think of to say was "Yeah, okay, thanks..." He smiled again and was lost in the crowd. Just like that. That was the most romantic experience I thought I could ever have at seventeen, but as I stood there like a moron looking after him, my brother goes "He knows your name, and the director has our number, so maybe he'l call you!" I turned to him and scouled. "Shut up! As if Johnny Depp is going to call me, he doesn't even know me!' Then he told me what he had supposedly said and I almost passed out. For like two months after that ever time the phone rang I dived at it, and answered it in my most sophisticated voice. However, he never called, and to this day, when the phone rings I have to be the first to answer it! :)

Jessy

Jessy is the author of a fanzine about Johnny which you can read at https://www.angelfire.com/ky/readmymind/index.html

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