Lily-Rose Depp recently shared a deeply personal memory about watching her father, Johnny Depp, play the titular character in the 1990 Tim Burton classic Edward Scissorhands. While the character’s ghostly appearance and scissor-like hands might frighten most children, Lily-Rose revealed that it wasn’t Edward’s looks that upset her—it was the way others treated him.
“I was traumatized by it,” she said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar U.K.. “Not because I thought he was scary, but because everyone was being so mean to him, and I got really upset.”
At just three years old, Lily-Rose watched her father bring Edward to life—a kind, gentle artificial humanoid struggling to fit into suburban life. In the film, the community initially welcomes Edward, but their fear and judgment ultimately drive him away. For Lily-Rose, this portrayal of cruelty and rejection was overwhelming. “I remember being petrified by that, which is weird because I don’t have many memories from when I was that young. It’s a difficult childhood memory,” she explained.
The emotional impact of Edward Scissorhands stayed with her, and she admitted that she hasn’t watched the film since. As an actress, Lily-Rose finds herself drawn to similarly complex characters, a reflection of the empathy she felt for Edward as a child.
Her latest project, Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers, explores another layered character dynamic. In the gothic fantasy film, a reimagining of the 1922 silent movie, Lily-Rose plays Ellen Hutter, a newlywed caught in the obsessive gaze of the vampire Nosferatu, played by Bill Skarsgård. Comparing her father’s portrayal of Edward to Nosferatu, Lily-Rose shared, “Edward’s the good guy and Nosferatu’s kind of the bad guy, but there’s a part of me that feels a little bit of empathy for Nosferatu. I mean, am I sick for feeling that way?”
For Lily-Rose, roles like Edward Scissorhands and Nosferatu reflect her fascination with stories that explore the “darker underbelly” of humanity. “As an actor, you hope that your role will be as meaty as can be, so you have as much to dive into as possible,” she said.
Fans of layered performances can see Lily-Rose Depp’s latest exploration of dark, empathetic storytelling in Nosferatu, now playing in theaters.
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