Johnny Depp On How Al Pacino Persuaded Him To Direct ‘Modi – Three Days On The Wings Of Madness’: “When Pacino Speaks, You Listen” — San Sebastian
deadline.comJohnny Depp received an enthusiastic welcome this afternoon as he returned to Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival, where he will debut his latest directorial effort, Modi – Three Days On The Wing Of Madness.
Depp arrived in Spain last night, where he was met with cheering fans outside the city’s Maria Cristina Hotel. This afternoon he appeared in front of a largely starstruck press corps with his Modi cast and collaborators, including Antonia Desplat and Riccardo Scamarcio.
Opening the session, Depp told the journalists in the room that he was first approached about the project by veteran actor Al Pacino. “I got a very strange phone call from Al Pacino who said ‘Do remember this Modigliani project?’ and he said I should direct it,” Depp said. “For some reason, Al saw me driving this strange machine.
And when Pacino speaks, you listen, so I ran with it. But I had no idea what it would be until the pieces of the puzzle came together.” Modi is Depp’s second directorial effort and comes 27 years after The Brave, his debut film as a director and he told the crowd in San Sebastian that he had an “infinitely more positive experience” making Modi. “When I was making The Brave 27 years ago the last thing I wanted to do was attempt to make a film again,” he said. “There was too much math.
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