EUROMAN, September 2003. (Page 76) Text; Tonny Vorm.

A REFORMED REBEL.

He has always done things his way - and it looked like that it in a period would destroy both him and his career. To day Johnny has settled down in the south of France with his family and achieved success in a genuine Hollywood blockbuster. Tonny Vorm met the actor to find out how Depp survived the wild years and the weird roles.

It is comforting to see Johnny Depp. Not just here and now where he sit and smiles wryly when rolling the first of countless cigarettes while the early morning sun thunders relentlessly through the panoramic windows behind us. But also on the big screen where he with a natural elegance and measure energy has managed to charm both the audience and the critics in movies like Donnie Brasco and From Hell

Not that anybody ever doubted his talent. On the contrary - it was just like he burned too much for his work; like he revelled in his image as a rebel to the degree that it was sometimes difficult to believe that he had a future. Not just in Hollywood, but at all.

"For a while it was like no matter what ever I did I got into trouble. That´s true. There was some wild years where I sometimes doubted whether or not I would get much older - or rather, I didn´t give a damn. I was pretty god at destroying myself. I learned a lot from it and I had some fabulous experiences, but I was a naive little idiot. I was confused and didn´t know what I wanted with my life. It was some crazy years" tells Depp with a wondering look in the dark eyes that betray his Cherokee-ancestry.

Instead of doing as he was told and say Yes, please to the many safe offers from Hollywood he preferred to be seen as a sensitive oddball in strange epics like Edward Scissorhands, Dead Man and Ed Wood In his spare time he played serious rock and roll music with Iggy Pop, Shane MacGovan and Neil Young, bought Jack Kerouac-memorabilia on auctions and quoted great poets left, right and centre; he showed up at his own club The Viper Room with Winona Ryder, Sherilyn Fenn or Kate Moss on the arm and represented all in all the restlessness, distance to reality and loathing of one self that the generation who grew into adulthood during the 90´s liked to show to the world.

But contrary to Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, Oasis, Paul Gascoigne, Beavis & Butt-Head, Douglas Coupland and what the unfit heroes of the 90´s called themselves he survived the decade without taking to much drug, sell out or be forgotten. Johnny got through it all alive. He turned 40 this year, has moved to the south of France and started a family with Vanessa Paradise - who in an age of 14 in 1986 sang Joe Le Taxi - and to top that he plays the leading role in one of the latest years most successful summer-blockbusters, Disney´s The Pirates Of The Caribbean - a pitch black pirate-action-comedy about love, revenge and ghosts.

For Johnny Depp 1993 represented the lowest point of his life. Although he made the very popular movie What´s eating Gilbert Grape that year - a movie, he claim never to have seen - he also experienced his good friend River Phoenix´ dead of an overdose of drug just outside The Viper Room on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.

"It was a nightmare. It is still a nightmare I´ll never recover from. It could have been so beautiful - he showed up with his guitar on his shoulder and his girlfriend by his side ... It was such a waste what happened. River was a beautiful, talented actor who had all it takes"

But he was also a famous boy and that is hard to survive in Hollywood. He was very vulnerable. I was lucky that I got on in time. River was unlucky Depp states and doesn´t denied that he would wish he could say that that traumatic event made him grow up.

But unfortunately it didn´t. The year after that he got into a fracas with a paparazzi-photographer in London one week and smashed a hotel suite in the hotel The Mark in New York the week after where upon he got thrown in jail.

"Oh, man, I had a real bad time. The whole thing became just too much ... There was people around me all the time and I just needed to be alone for a bit" tells a head shaking Depp who despite all his excesses - plus the tattoo "Winona Forever" which got change to "Wino Forever" when he and the actress split up and much else - stubbornly denies that he has ever consciously been acting as a bad boy.

"Never! And I have never had half as much fun as the newspapers claim. Rebel? That´s just yet another label people feel good about sticking on what ever they don´t understand right away. I have read things like "Former party boy gets married " - that´s not true! I hate going to parties, I hate the word. All they wrote or refer to wasn´t about partying. It was about me being so naive that I thought I could make myself immune against pain and longing and all that. I wasn´t mature enough to look at the reality and take responsibility for anything. It had nothing to do with relaxing and partying, it was about an quite ordinary American boy who needed a place he could call home"

"Have you found that?"

"Yes. Absolutely. I have settle down now. To become a father makes one see things in perspective. You find out what is important here in life. What made you mad before can no longer upset you - that seems like little details compared to the safety, security and love of your family"

The turning point in Johnny Depp´s life - and carrier came in 1998.

During the shoot of Roman Polanski´s movie "The Ninth Gate" he met Vanessa Paradis in Paris. Three months later she was pregnant. To day the couple is married and live with their daughter Lily Rose (who´s name Depp has tattoo on his chest above his heart) who is four years old and the son Jack who is one and a half year old in a small village in the south of France.

"We live a very simple life with vine yards all around us, completely idyllic. I am even allowed to smoke where ever I want - in France they almost encourage people to smoke. I really didn´t believe I was ready for a serious relationship when I met Vanessa but somehow I think I knew we had to be together" says Johnny Depp, who feels weird being back in Los Angeles, where he still has a house - the "Dracula"-actor Bela Lugosis old mansion - and The Viper Room.

"Hollywood is a totally different world. Very far away from my home in the south of France and it is probably healthy for me with a change of scenery. People in the town I live in is completely indifferent to who you are as long as you behave properly. Here in Los Angeles you better be on a bit on guard the whole time. It eats at you. I feel more relaxed in France. At the place where we live people watch out for my family and me"

"Politic is a game I don´t understand - I don´t believe what they are saying and consequently I don´t follow what they say. But it has been fantastic to experience how the American government totally on its own made fools out of themselves when they decided to rename French toast and French fries to what ever the Hell it was. The American managed totally on their own to show how stupid they really are! Nobody had to help them. And it was even better when the French foreign minister answered that What you call French fries originated in Belgium It doesn´t get any better, does it? Now I am back in the USA the American journalists want to know if people were throwing rocks at me in French because I am from the States. But the French has acted pretty cool in this whole affair in my opinion. They haven´t acted like children in a kindergarten but been pretty sharp and subtle - I miss that in many of my countrymen"

"Not all Americans are stupid, are they now? I have no problems at all working for Disney. Yes, it is a big capitalistic machine and I must admit that I sometimes felt like I had infiltrated the enemy´s camp. I don´t quite belong there - but I don´t think I fooled that many because that seems to be what they had expected - Bruckheimer and Verbinski (the producer and director) - that I should do what I liked with my character"

Why have you so often played an outsider? Or why have you been drawn to that kind of roles?

"I think I am drawn to strange people. As a child I was often alone because we moved a 100 times - no, but 20 to 30 times at least - and I have always identified myself with the outsiders. That´s why I have also loved playing them in the movies. And now you may say that it hasn´t all been first class - but then you should see what I have turned down. I am at least as proud of what I have declined to work in as I am of my work" declares Depp and shrugs politely when the titles "Speed" "The Time Of The Legends" and "Interview with a vampire" is mentioned.

"When I do something it has to be fun. I´m not the type who has to be left alone in my trailer while I am crying because I imagine my character has lost his dog when I was four years old. I need a nice gut feeling from the moment I met the people who are handing me the manuscript. And I had that with Pirates I immediately got a lot of ideas as how to play my role and since the authors were open to suggestions I was ready as once. Besides that I wanted to make this movie because it is more accessible to my children than for example ... Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"

Have your daughter seen it?

"Lily Rose loves "Pirates" very much. She showed up at the set several times and thought it was hilarious with all the costumes and the beads in the hair. I have often tried to explain to her what I do for a living. But she does really understand what a actor does. One night we were eating out and there was this belly dancer that fascinated her a great deal. They danced and talked and then the belly dancer asked what her mother did for a living. She´s a singer And your father? - He´s a pirate"

"From me? Hopefully they inherit a lot from their mother. She is fabulous. But ... the best advice I have got is from my mother - it probably sounds harsh but we are from Kentucky "Don´t take any shit of anybody" I don´t hope either that my children will have to accept any. Do you know the Bob Dylan song "Forever Young"? "May you grow up to be righteous/ may you grow up to be true/ may you always know the truth and see the light surrounding you" - that is not an advice but a hope. A hope for my children"

People respect Johnny Depp. Marlon Brando, whom he worked with in "Don Juan DeMarco" and "The Brave" is one of his closest friends. Depp has ended up at the A-list with the movie "Pirates" But his look - the rundown, un-laced working boots and the leather bracelet; his jewellery, fags and day old stubs - are being copied by almost every young male actor like he is constantly mention when Ethan Hawk, Leonardo DeCaprio, Stephen Dorph and Orlando Bloom, who starred opposite Depp in "Pirates" has to answer to whose career they would like to imitate.

Asked how he feel about being a role model Johnny looks shyly at his Zippo-lighter and fingers his pirate ring.

"No idea. Wow! How I feel about that? I am flattered ... It probably has to do with some fights I had with the movie industry pretty early on in my career. I made some decisions like that I wanted to be the one to say which movies I would choose to make without having to worry about what I would earn or how much they would gross. I knew I would be destroyed if I didn´t do things my way. And that was hard for the producers to accept. That they couldn´t label me as an action hero or a young romantic or what ever else they might need. I did do some things wrong at times, behaved like a jerk and made a couple of bad movies - sometimes it was as already mentioned intentionally I did something people didn´t expect. Something I knew wasn´t the best I could offer. But that is the way I wanted to live my life and if anybody else can learn from my example then by all means. As long as they don´t smoke bad dope with my children or smashed up the hotels I am suppose to spend the night in" he laughs.

EUROMAN, september, 2003. (side 76) Tekst, Tonny Vorm.

EN TILPASSET REBEL.

Han har altid gået sine egne veje - og en overgang så det ud til, at det skulle ødelægge både ham selv og hans karriere. I dag er Johnny Depp faldet til ro i Sydfrankrig med sin familie og har fået succes i en gedigen Hollywood-blockbuster. Tonny Vorm mødte skuespilleren for at finde ud af, hvordan Depp overlevede de vilde år og de underlige roller.

Det er betryggende at se Johnny Depp. Ikke blot nu og her, hvor han sidder og smiler skævt i færd med at rulle den første af utallige cigaretter, mens formiddagssolen over Los Angeles brager ubarmhjertigt ind gennem panoramavinduerne bag os. Men også på lærredet de seneste år, hvor han med indfølt elegance og afmålt energi har formået at begejstre både publikum og kritikere i film som bl.a. Donnie Brasco og From Hell

Ikke fordi man nogensinde betvivlede hans talent. Tværtimod - det var bare som om han brændte for meget for sin metier; som om han dyrkede sit rebelske image i en sådan grad, at det indimellem var svært at tro på, at han havde en fremtid. Ikke blot i Hollywood, men i det hele taget.

"I en periode var det, som om jeg konstant kom ud i problemer, uanset hvad jeg gjorde. Det er rigtigt. Der var nogle vilde år, hvor jeg sommetider tvivlede på, om jeg ville blive ret meget ældre - eller rettere, det ragede mig en pind. Jeg var ret god til at ødelægge mig selv med stoffer og druk. Jeg lærte en masse af det og jeg havde nogle fantastiske oplevelser, men jeg var en naiv lille drengerøve. Jeg var forvirret, og jeg anede ikke, hvad jeg ville med mit liv. Det var nogle skøre år" fortæller Depp med et undrende blik i de mørke øjne, der røber hans cherokee-aner.

I stedet for at makke ret og takke ja til de sikre tilbud fra Hollywood dukkede han op som følsom særling i bizarre værker som Edward Scissorhands, Dead Man og Ed Wood I fritiden spillede han alvorlig rock musik med Iggy Pop, Shane MacGovan og Neil Young, købte Jack Kerouac-memorabilia på auktioner og citerede store poeter hvert og hvert andet minut; han dukkede op på sin egen klub The Viper Room med Winona Ryder, Sherilyn Fenn eller Kate Moss under armen og kom i det hele taget til at repræsentere den rodløshed, distance til virkeligheden og selvforagt, som generationen, der blev voksen i 90erne, dyrkede til op over begge ører.

I modsætning til Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, Oasis, Paul Gascoigne, Beavis & Butt-Head, Douglas Coupland og hvad 90ernes utilpassede helte eller hed, kom han dog igennem det årti uden at tage for mange stoffer, sælge ud eller gå i glemmebogen. Johnny overlevede det hele. Han rundede de 40 i år, er flyttet til Sydfrankrig, har stiftet familie med Vanessa Paradise - der som 14-årig i 1986 sang Joe Le Taxi - og så spiller han såmænd hovedrollen i en af de seneste års mest vellykkede sommer-blockbusters, Disneys Pirates Of The Caribbean - en kulsort sørøver-action-komedie om kærlighed, hævn og spøgelser.

1993 repræsenter for Johnny Depp det absolutte nulpunkt i hans liv. Det år lavede han godt nok den populære Hvad så, Gilbert Grape - en film, han i øvrigt hævder aldrig at have set - men han oplevede også sin gode ven River Phoenix dø af en speedball-overdosis uden for netop The Viper Room på Sunset Strip i West Hollywood.

"Det var et mareridt: Og det er stadigvæk et mareridt, jeg aldrig kommer mig over. Det kunne have været så smukt - han dukkede op med sin guitar over skulderen og kæresten ved sin side Det var spild, det der skete. River var en smuk, talentfuld skuespiller, der havde alt, hvad der skulle til. Men han var også en berømt dreng, og det er svært at overleve i Hollywood. Han var meget sårbar. Jeg var heldig, at jeg nåede videre i tide, River var uheldig" konstaterer Depp, der ikke lægger skjul på, at han ville ønske, han kunne sige, at det var den traumatiske hændelse, der gjorde ham voksen.

Det var det bare ikke. Året efter røg han i klammeri med en paparazzi-fotograf i London den ene uge og smadrede en suite på hotellet The Mark i New York ugen efter, hvorefter han røg i spjældet.

"Oh, man, jeg havde det virkelig dårligt. Det hele blev ligesom for meget ... Der var mennesker omkring mig hele tiden, og jeg havde bare brug for at være lidt alene" fortæller en hovedrystende Depp, der trods alle sine udskejelser - samt tatoveringen "Winona Forever" der blev ændret til "Wino Forever" da han og skuespillerne gik fra hinanden og meget andet - stædigt hævder, at han aldrig bevidst har dyrket sit image som rebel.

"Never! Og jeg havde det ikke halvt så sjovt, som aviserne skrev, haha. Rebel? Det var endnu et mærkat, som folk havde det godt med at klistre på det, de ikke umiddelbart kunne forstå. Jeg har læst ting som "Former party boy gets married " - det passer ikke! Jeg hadede at gå til fester, jeg hader ordet "party" Alt det, de skrev om eller refererede til, handlede jo ikke om at fester, det handlede om, at jeg var så naiv, at jeg troede, at jeg kunne gøre mig immune over for smerte og længsler og alt det der. Jeg var ikke voksen nok til at se virkeligheden i øjnene og tage et ansvar. Det havde intet at gøre med at slappe af og feste, det handlede om, at en ganske almindelig rodløs amerikansk dreng skulle finde et sted at høre hjemme"

"Har du fundet det?"

"Ja. Helt sikker. Nu er jeg faldet lidt mere til ro. At blive far sætter tingene lidt i perspektiv, du finder ud af, hvad der er vigtigt her i livet. Det, der gjorde dig tosset før i tiden, kan ikke længere hidse dig op - det er jo småting i forhold til din families tryghed, sikkerhed og kærlighed"

Vendepunktet i Johnny Depp´s liv - og karriere - kom i 1998. Under indspilningerne af Roman Polanski´s "The Ninth Gate" mødte han Vanessa Paradis i Paris. Tre måneder efter var hun gravid. I dag er parret gift og bor med datteren Lily Rose (hvis navn Depp har tatoveret på brystet over sit hjerte) på fire år og sønnen Jack på halvandet år i en lille landsby i Sydfrankrig.

"Vi lever et meget simpelt liv med vinmarker omkring os, fuldstændigt idyllisk. Jeg må oven i købet ryge, hvor jeg vil - i Frankrig opfordrer de nærmest folk til at ryge, haha. Jeg troede virkelig ikke, at jeg var klar til et seriøst forhold, da jeg mødte Vanessa, men et eller andet sted var jeg vist godt klare over, at det skulle være os to" siger Johnny Depp, der har det underligt med at være tilbage i Los Angeles, hvor han stadig har et hus - "Dracula"- skuespilleren Bela Lugosis gamle mansion - og The Viper Room.

"Hollywood er en helt anden verden, langt fra mit hjem i Sydfrankrig, og det har nok været sundt for mig med et miljøskifte. Folk i den by, jeg bor i, er fuldstændig ligeglade med, hvem man er, så længe man opfører sig pænt. Herover i Los Angeles skal man helst være lidt på vagt hele tiden. Det tærer på dig. I Frankrig kan jeg bedre slappe af. Der, hvor vi bor, passer folk på min familie og mig"

"Politik er et spil, jeg ikke forstår - jeg tror ikke på en pind af det, de siger, og derfor følger jeg heller ikke med i, hvad de siger. Men det har jo været fantastisk at opleve, hvordan den amerikanske regering fuldstændig på egen hånd har gjort sig til grin, da de besluttede at omdøbe French toast og French fries til hvad fanden, det nu var. Amerikanerne formåede helt på egen hånd at afsløre, hvor åndssvage de i virkeligheden er! Ingen behøvede at hjælpe dem. Og det var endnu bedre, da den franske udenrigsminister svarede, at "hvad I kalder French fries, er faktisk fra Belgien"

"Så bliver det sgu ikke bedre, vel? Nu, hvor jeg er tilbage i USA, spørger de amerikanske journalister, om folk kaster sten efter mig i Frankrig, fordi jeg er fra USA. Men franskmændene har i mine øjne optrådt ret cool i hele denne affære. De har ikke opført sig som børnehavebørn, men har været ret skarpe og subtile - det savner jeg hos mange af mine landsmænd"

"Alle amerikanere er jo ikke dumme, vel? Jeg har absolut ingen problemer med at arbejde for Disney. Jo, det er en stor kapitalistisk maskine, og jeg må indrømme, at jeg indimellem havde det, som om jeg havde infiltreret fjendens lejr, Jeg hører ikke helt rigtig hjemme der - men jeg tror ikke, jeg snød ret mange, for det var vist det, de havde regnet med, Bruckheimer og Verbinski (henholdsvis producer og instruktør, red.) - at jeg skulle gøre, som det passede mig med min figur"

"Jeg tror, jeg er tiltrukket af mærkelige mennesker. Som barn var jeg meget alene, fordi vi flyttede 100 gange - nej, 20-30 gange i hvert fald - og jeg har altid identificeret mig med outsidere. Derfor har jeg også godt kunnet lide at spille dem på film. Og det kan godt være, du nu siger, at det ikke har været lige godt det hele - men så skulle du se det, jeg har sagt nej til! Jeg er mindst lige så stolt over det, jeg har takket nej til, som det, jeg har medvirket i" fortæller Depp og trækker høfligt på skuldrene, da titlerne "Speed" "Legendernes tid" og "Interview med en vampyr" kommer på bordet.

"Det skal være sjovt, det jeg laver. Jeg er ikke typen, der skal lades alene tilbage i min trailer, mens jeg sidder og græder, fordi jeg bilder mig ind, at min figur har mistet sin hund, da jeg har fire år. Jeg skal have en god fornemmelse i maven fra starten af, allerede når jeg møder de mennesker, der stikker mig manusset. Og det havde jeg med "Pirates" Jeg fik øjeblikkelig en masse ideer til, hvordan jeg kunne spille min figur, og da forfatterne var åbne, var jeg klar med det samme. Desuden ville jeg godt lave denne her film, netop fordi den var mere tilgængelig for mine børn end fx ... "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas""

"Lily Rose er helt vild med "Pirates" Hun dukkede op på settet flere gange og synes, det var vanvittigt morsomt med alle kostumerne og perlerne i håret. Jeg har tit prøvet at forklare, hvad jeg laver. Hun forstår ikke rigtigt begrebet skuespiller. En aften var vi ude at spise, og der var en mavedanser, som hun var meget fascineret af. De dansede og snakkede, og så spurgte mavedanseren, hvad hendes mor lavede. "Hun er sangerinde" "Hvad laver din far så?" - "Han er pirat""

"Fra mig? Forhåbentlig arver de en masse fra deres mor. Hun er fantastisk! Men ... det bedste råd, jeg har, er fra min mor - det lyder måske lidt hårdt, men vi er fra Kentucky "Don´t take any shit of anybody" Det håber jeg heller ikke, mine børn kommer til. Kender du Bob Dylans "Forever Young"? "May you grow up to be righteous/ may you grow up to be true/ may you always know th truth and see the light surrounding you" - det er ikke et råd, men et håb. Et håb for mine børn"

Der hersker en særlig respekt omkring Johnny Depp. Marlon Brando, som han arbejdede sammen med i "Don Juan DeMarco" og "The Brave" er en af hans nærmeste venner. Med "Pirates" er Depp hoppet op på A-listen. Hans persona - de slidte, usnørede arbejdsstøvler og læderarmbånd; hans smykker, smøger og daggamle skægstubbe - bliver kopieret af snart sagt enhver ung mandlig skuespiller, ligesom han konstant bliver nævnt, når Ethan Hawk, Leonardo DeCaprio, Stephen Dorph og Orlando Bloom, der spiller over for Depp i "Pirates" udtaler sig om, hvis karriere de ville vælge at efterleve.

Til spørgsmålet om, hvordan hovedpersonen selv har det med at være et forbillede, kigger han genert på sin Zippo-lighter og piller ved sin sørøverfingerring.

"Aner det ikke. Wauw! Hvordan her jeg det med det? Jeg er smigret ... Det skyldes nok, at jeg tog nogle kampe med filmindustrien ret tidligt i min karriere, traf nogle beslutninger om, at jeg selv ville bestemme, hvilken film jeg ville lave, uden at bekymre mig om, hvad jeg fik for det, eller hvor meget de tjente ind. Jeg vidste, jeg ville blive ødelagt, hvis jeg ikke gik mine egne veje. Og det er svært for producerne at acceptere, at de ikke sådan kunne putte mig i en boks med aktionskuespillere eller unge romantikere, eller hvad de nu havde brug for. Jeg trådte indimellem i spinaten, opførte mig åndssvagt og lavede et par dårlige film - nogle gange var det som sagt med vilje, at jeg gjorde noget, ingen forventede, noget, jeg godt vidste, ikke var optimalt. Men sådan havde jeg det bedst, og hvis andre i dag kan lære af mit eksempel, så endelig. Bare de ikke ryger dårlig dope med mine børn eller smadre de hoteller, jeg skal overnatte på, haha"

""Søvn" Jeg synes ikke, jeg har sovet, siden jeg fik mit første barn, men ellers ikke, nej, Jeg har det, som jeg vil have det - ganske fint faktisk"

THE BRAVE.

John Christopher Depp II, født 9 Juni, 1963; Owensboro, Kentucky, USA. Voksede op i Florida. Har tidligere udtalt, at han røg hash som 11-årig, spillede guitar som 12-årig og havde sin seksuelle debut som 13-årig. Forældrene blev skilt, da han var 15.

Droppede ud af skolen som 16-årig for at spille guitar i bandet The Kids. Bandet skiftede navn til Six Gun Method og endte efter et par år i Los Angeles, hvor de opvarmede for bl.a Iggy Pop, The Pretenders og A Flock Of Seagulls. Spiller i dag i bandet P med bl.a. Gibby Haynes fra Butthole Surfers.

Blev gift som 20-årig med makeup-artisten Lori Anne Wilson, der introducerede ham for Nicholas Cage. Cage, der lånte Depp et værelse efter dennes skilsmisse fra Wilson to år efter, overtalte Depp til at gå til optagelsesprøve til Wes Cravens "Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984) der blev Depps debutfilm.

Efter et par småroller i store film, deriblandt "Platoon" (1986), blev Depp i 1987 nationens foretrukne teenage-idol med tv-serien "21 Jump Street" Serien løb frem til 1990, hvor Depp dukkede op på det store lærred i John Waters´ "Cry Baby"

Har medvirket i omkring 30 spillefilm, deriblandt "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) "Benny & Joon" (1993) "Hvad så, Gilbert Grape?" (1993) "Ed Wood" (1994) "Don Juan DeMarco" (1995) "Donnie Brasco" (1997) "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" (1998) "The Ninth Gate" (1999) "Sleepy Hollow" (1999) "The Man Who Cried" (2000) "Chocolat" (2000) "Blow" (2001) "From Hell" (2001) Har selv instrueret "The Brave" (1997) der aldrig blev købt til amerikanske biografdistribution.

Medvirker i Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers´ video "Into The Great Wide Open" (1991) og spiller slide-guitar på Oasis´ "Fade In-out" (1997)