She was only 3 when her parents sat her down to watch a movie starring her father. 🎥
Lily-Rose Depp, now 25, said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK that that afternoon marked her childhood forever. The movie was Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton’s 1990 classic in which Johnny Depp plays an artificial man with scissors instead of hands. But what broke her was not the character’s appearance or his sharp appendages.
What she couldn’t bear was seeing how the entire town turned against Edward, treating him with a cruelty that she, being so young, couldn’t separate from her real father’s figure. For her, at that moment, there was no difference between the actor and the character: it was her father suffering the rejection of an entire neighborhood. According to her, she never watched the complete movie again after that. 💔