Lily-Rose Depp remembered the deep effect Johnny Depp’s role in ‘Edward Scissorhands’ left on her when she first watched it at the age of three during a recent chat with Harper’s Bazaar UK.
“I was traumatized by it,” the ‘Nosferatu’ actress told the outlet. “Not because I thought he was scary, but because everyone was being so mean to him and I got really upset.”
The first of many collaborations between Depp and Tim Burton followed an artificial man with scissors for hands in a suburban community. In the end, said people drove the titular character away, which ‘traumatized’ Lily-Rose to the point where she has avoided watching it again.
“I remember being petrified by that, which is weird, because I don’t have many memories from when I was that young,” she said. “It’s a difficult childhood memory.”
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton looked back on the making of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ in a Tara Wood documentary this year. The actor highlighted the impression the film’s script left on him saying it “passed through everything, anything, solid and went to the very core of whatever I am. The writing was beautiful. The character was beautiful. What I suppose [attracted] me emotionally was that Edward was me. It’s exactly what I should be doing.”
‘Edward Scissorhands’ became a great success for both Depp and Burton, leading to a series of collaborations that included classics like ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.’
