The cast of “Black Mass” following star Johnny Depp is pitch flawless without a mistake.
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Johnny Depp is nearly unrecognisable in his new film, playing Boston’s most notorious gangster Whitey Bulger.
I am talking about Joel Edgerton as bad Federal Bureau of Investigation guy John Connolly, Kevin Bacon as the CBI chief, Corey Stoll as the DA, Jesse Plemons as Bulger’s lackey, David Harbour as Edgerton’s partner, and Rory Cochrane as Bulger’s stooge. Check out the YouTube video below. This statement is possibly too on-the-nose because Scott Cooper, the director of Out of the Furnace, actually did direct Black Mass, an always-tense, always-brooding version of a mobster movie.
Benedict Cumberbatch (left) plays Billy Bulger (right), Whitey’s brother and Massachusetts Senator. Yet lately, Depp’s acts of shapeshifting, different as the characters may be, have felt like variations of the same old shtick. But the thing is, Connolly, at least the way Edgerton portrays him, doesn’t care.
While never winning, Depp earned noms for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Finding Neverland (2004) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). All we know is they have a sainted Irish mother who’s also a card shark.
Making Depp resemble the famed Boston gangster required covering the upper half of his face with a prosthetic, and creating 50 different headpieces to mimic Bulger’s receding hairline, Boston magazine reported. Personally, I thought he was just as good in The Rum Diary (2011), Blow (2001), Donnie Brasco (1997), Ed Wood (1994) and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
So, yes, maybe this really is a comeback for Depp.
“I get a sense of their condition”, Cabell said. We’ve seen photos and video of Depp in costume and he looks nothing like his normal self, and also honestly not much like the actual Bulger.
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WATCH Johnny in action above – would you recognise him?
