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For your late-night highlight, Johnny Depp revealed how he perfected his many zany movie characters._ by [Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly Oct 13, 2015 12:11 PM UTC  Johnny Depp attends a screening of "Black Mass" during the BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square in London, on Oct. 11, 2015. Johnny Depp attends a screening of "Black Mass" during the BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square in London, on Oct. 11, 2015. Mike Marsland—Getty Images by [Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly Oct 13, 2015 12:11 PM UTC People have long been asking when Johnny Depp will finally take home an Oscar. Johnny Depp, however, is not among them. “I don’t want to win one of those things, ever, you know,” the actor told the BBC’s [_Newsbeat_](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34502627/johnny-depp-doesnt-want-to-win-an-oscar-but-a-nomination-is-ok) at the U.K. premiere of Scott Cooper’s _Black Mass_ at the London Film Festival. “I don’t want to have to talk.” Depp has been garnering [critical praise](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/18/black-mass-reviews) and early Oscar buzz for his performance as legendary Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in _Black Mass_; EW’s Chris Nashawaty writes that the actor “plays the audience like Toscanini” in his [B review](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/black-mass-ew-review). Nevertheless, _Black Mass_ is not an Oscar bid for the star. Depp has picked up three Best Actor nominations before, for his performances in _Sweeney Todd, Finding Neverland_, and the first _Pirates of the Caribbean_ film. “They gave me one of those things, like a nomination, two or three times,” he said. “A nomination is plenty.” “The idea of winning means that you’re in competition with someone, and I’m not in competition with anybody,” Depp expanded. “I just stick to my guns and do what I want to do. Sometimes people don’t like it, but that’s all right.” In addition to “Oscar bait,” there’s another term Depp doesn’t want applied to his turn as Bulger: “comeback.” “What did I come back from? The dead?” he said. “I haven’t done anything different in this than I have in any other film.” Not all would agree: Nashawaty also said of Depp in his review of _Black Mass_, “The actor’s really done his homework after playing hooky for what feels like too long.” Head to [_Newsbeat_](http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34502627/johnny-depp-doesnt-want-to-win-an-oscar-but-a-nomination-is-ok)for the full interview. _Black Mass_ is in theaters now. The nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards will be announced on Jan. 14\. [_This article originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/12/johnny-depp-doesnt-want-win-oscar-ever) ## Transcript [00:00] For your late night highlight, Johnny Depp revealed how [00:02] he perfected his many zany movie characters and it [00:05] turns out he couldn't have done it without him daughter [00:08] Lily Rose and a few Barbie dolls. We played a lot of [00:11] Barbies me, my daughter and I. I used to test [00:14] characters on her. The one day we were playing [00:17] Barbies and then she decided to just go daddy. Just, [00:21] just do it normal, how about? Depp told Jimmy Kimmel [00:24] Thursday he and Lilly Rose, who is now 15, used to [00:28] play Barbies a lot when she was younger. And she [00:30] helped him tweak characters we all know pretty well. [00:33] [ MUSIC ] Forgot one very important thing mate. I'm [00:38] Captain Jack Sparrow. He's Willy Wonka. [ MUSIC ] Huh! [00:43] And it looks like those play dates helped Lily- Rose [00:45] catch the acting bug herself. She just finished filming [00:48] her very first movie, Yoga Hosers, alongside her [00:51] famous father. 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