Lily-Rose Depp has no desire to be famous and will do anything to protect her privacy.
The actress, daughter of Johnny Depp and French singer and model Vanessa Paradis, has recently carved a place for herself in Hollywood, thanks to her roles in HBO’s The Idol and director Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. However, she recently opened up to The Daily Telegraph about the importance of preserving her anonymity in this industry.
“Every job comes with a set of circumstances and this [fame] is kind of one of them,” she explained. “The importance to me has been to maintain a sense of, like, privacy and grounded-ness and to protect [what] really belongs to you.”
It’s been a decade since Depp made her first on-screen appearance in 2014’s Tusk. Since then, she’s continued to rise in fame, appearing in more than a dozen projects. And though she watched her parents navigate the industry while growing up, she’s now seeing a not-so-glamorous side to fame for herself.
“People are interested in things that they shouldn’t necessarily be interested in and … the job of an actor is to go into a character and, like, melt into it — and make the audience believe you are this character,” Depp said. “In order to do that, it’s important to protect a sense of anonymity — they’re not supposed to get to know ‘you’ that well, ‘cause you want them to believe you as other characters.”
In November, the Voyagers actress opened up about working to find her own identity in Hollywood, despite critics.
“I feel like people have been ready to see me fail, in a way, since I was a kid,” Depp told Vanity Fair at the time. “That has made me only want to work harder and prove people wrong. Not in a vindictive way at all, but just in a sense of, like, fuel to my fire. I do want to prove that I’m a hard worker and I’m not here for anything else but to work hard.”
