JOHNNY DEPP has his eye on a gender-bending movie role - he would love to portray singer/actress CAROL CHANNING in a biopic.Okay, someone in Hollywood needs to make this happen immediately. That is, if they can pry themselves away from making films about bullshit.
The character actor has regularly donned a series of bizarre outfits for his films, and even dressed up as a woman for his starring part in 1994 comedy Ed Wood. And he's determined to go even further with a future role - by playing 88-year-old Channing.
He says, "My dream role would be to play musical legend Carol Channing in a biopic of her life. I love her, I really do, she's amazing." (link)
(1,000 points to the first person who can successfully deconstruct everything that is wrong with the sentence: "The character actor has regularly donned a series of bizarre outfits for his films, and even dressed up as a woman for his starring part in 1994 comedy Ed Wood.")
Since Johnny's currently mad-hatting it up in Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, it seems appropriate to remember Carol's turn as the White Queen:
