Johnny does his Good Deed

MACGOWAN TO NEW DEPP'S


The Pogues' hard-wearing frontman Shane MacGowan has a real friend in Johnny Depp. The Hollywood actor apparently thinks it's important to keen the recovering heroin addict busy, so has awarded him a role in his new film, The Libertine. It's a movie made for wildman MacGowan, which follows the story of John Wilmot, otherwise known as the second Earl of Rochester, a real-life 17th-century rake, soldier and poet (played by Depp) who debauched his way to an early grave, only winning critical acclaim after dying of syphilis at the age of 33. An example of his lyricism:

Cupid and Bacchus my saints are
May drink and love still reign
With wine I wash away my cares
And then to c**t again

At his funeral in 1680, Robert Parsons preached: "Nay so confirm'd was he in Sin, that he lived, and oftentimes almost died, a martyr for it." In the film of his life and untimely death, directed by writer Stephen Jeffreys, MacGowan, 46, plays another bard. He shot his scenes at Hampton Court, just outside London, last week along with Depp, John Malkovich, who plays Charles II, and Samantha Morton, who plays Rochester's mistress, the actress Elizabeth Barry.

[Danny Walker Fan]

Thanks for that Emily.

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