Depp Puts Kelly at Ease

In an interview with the Daily Mail, actress Laura Michelle Kelly talks about being cast with Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd and his attempt to make her feel more at ease on the set:

As well as playing the dual role of a nun and Johnny (Coronation Street) Briggs's young trophy wife in a forthcoming ITV1 production of Agatha Christie's Nemesis, she can be seen as a prostitute who ends up as a syphilitic old beggar in Tim Burton's new screen version of the musical Sweeney Todd.

With a cast led by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen and Alan Rickman, that's quite a movie baptism for our heroine, who's still only 26. But being kissed off-camera by Johnny Depp helped to put Laura Michelle at her ease, apparently.

"Johnny kissed me on the cheek on the set one day when I was in make-up as the ugly old hag. Everyone else was running away from my make-up, but I think he figured out that I felt really hideous and wanted to be nice to me."