The star of the new Tim Burton-directed gruesome musical tells EW about exercising his vocal chords, being doused with fake blood - and why his daughter thinks he's really weird.
If you thought Pirates of the Caribbean's Capt. Jack Sparrow was strange, just wait until you see Johnny Depp's next movie. As Sweeney Todd, in Tim Burton's adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical (opening Dec. 21), the actor summons all sorts of dark energy to play a singing, murderous London barber. ''He makes Sid Vicious look like the innocent paper boy,'' Depp says. ''He's beyond dark. He's already dead. He's been dead for years.'' EW caught up with the star to talk about the role, what it was like performing opposite Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen, why he hates watching himself on screen, and — aaaargh! — how it feels to be an attraction at Disneyland.