Posted by Adam

Thursday October 20, 2011

JOHNNY Depp has revealed how he managed to curtail his favourite tipple despite playing an alcoholic in new movie Rum Diary.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star plays a booze-loving journalist in the movie based on a Hunter S Thompson story but remained more than sober throughout.

“I am a fan of rum but Bruce Robinson, the director, and I made a pact prior to going down to Puerto Rico to shoot that we would abstain,” explains Johnny.

“We knew that the easy way would be — do your work day and then have some rum. So we did two months without anything.”

Depp recently revealed how he almost wrecked his good looks long before he made it as a Hollywood hunk after he set himself alight during a prank.

“I did spew a little fire in my youth when I very dumbly chugged a little bit of gasoline and blew it into a torch and my head was on fire,” he said.

“It’s a weird thing when your head is on fire. You tend to panic first and then when panic kind of sets in and you can’t put your face out you run, which is the worse thing you could do. A friend of mine, this guy named Bones, came over and put my face out! He saved my life.”

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