How did Johnny Depp become involved with the film?
When I finally got a script that I was happy with, I went and tracked him down in Europe (cause you kind of have to go find him). From my perspective, I wanted an actor to give me George Jung. I didn t want a movie star to come in and star in Blow. I really wanted the guy to be George. Johnny has done that on every film. You put Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, and George in the same room, and they don t look a like at all. I needed someone who was also sexy. Someone who would walk into a room and everyone would be like wow, who is that guy. Did you have any problems with the MPAA, as far as anything you wanted to do that you couldn t? No, actually we knew we would have the R rating so we’re okay with that. As far as the drug use is concerned, we were fine. Requiem for a Dream broke any type of that limit in the first 15 minutes. The MPAA problems actually happened with me when I put together the trailer for the movie. In order to show a trailer to a general audience it has
