I Met Johnny Depp!

I have been slacking with the new blog this week, because so many AWESOME things have happened lately. Mainly GETTING TO MEET JOHNNY DEPP ON MONDAY! As I've previously blogged, and I'm sure everyone in Wisconsin knows, "Public Enemies" has been filming in Oshkosh this week. I went down to the set every day from Sunday to Wednesday, sometimes more than once. (My school schedule prohibited me from being a crazy film student stalker...but I got pretty close!) Monday was the magic day apparently, as a major bank/chase scene was shot in the morning (which I was not present for :( And Johnny graciously came out to greet the fans Monday night. At that point, there were not a whole lot of people there. Probably between 100-200, only two or three people deep behind the barricades. My friend and I were watching out the windows of the library, that happened to be conveniently located near shooting, and we came out to see people beginning to gather. Someone said that Johnny was supposedly doing a meet and greet, and we walked right up to the front of the barricades. I was actually standing just in front of a line of caution tape, and when he did actually come out, I was inches from him! 

     Now, I highly respect Johnny as an actor, none of the crazy screaming fan stuff for me, but it was pretty cool that he came out to say hi to all of us. They didn't allow autographs or personal photos (even though a girl next to me tried...and ruined it a bit) but he shook hands, exchanged a word here and there, and seemed really nice even as his handler was hustling him down the line. Thankfully, through the magic of my wonderful video camera that my parents helped fund (Thanks!) I caught it all on tape. You can see that I was plainly about 5 inches from his face, and although I am calm as he comes by, my friend Krista can attest to the fact that I was jumping up and down a bit as he left and the crowd dispersed. Who wouldn't be a little star struck by Johnny Depp?