Were Johnny Depp And Marlon Brando Actually Friends In Real Life?

Johnny Depp said during the Santa Barbara Film Festival interview that he returned Marlon Brando's call after getting "The Godfather" legend's phone number and was pleasantly surprised. "He was the absolute opposite of everything that they told me he was gonna be, which was some testy guy who wants to know that he's in control and a lot of stuff," Depp recalled. "That's not at all what the man was. No matter what he did, going to work, whatever, the most important thing on his mind was justice. Equality, justice, just justice."

This was the first but certainly not the last conversation Depp had with Brando. To begin with, Depp recalled during an event at ASU Gammage in 2016, he spoke with Brando for three hours in that first phone call. The next week, Depp said he returned to Los Angeles and Brando invited him for dinner, where the two made a connection on many levels.

In addition to being his friend, Depp described Brando as a mentor who would lend him advice. "He said, 'How many films do you average per year that you do?'" Depp recalled at the ASU Gammage event. "And I said, 'I don't know. Maybe two or three. He said, 'No, that's too much.' So I said, 'Well, why is that too much?' And he said, 'Because we only have so many faces in our pockets' ... Unfortunately, because of my madness, I feel like there's still a lot of faces in my pockets."