Depp spurns the in crowd
06/03/2005 - 14:56:26Screen idol Johnny Depp strongly identifies with late Peter Pan author JM Barrie’s refusal to conform to popular trends.
The eccentric author - who Depp brought back to life in 2004 biopic Finding Neverland - was an outsider throughout his life, and the Hollywood hunk admits he also rejected the mainstream as a child.
Depp says: "It wasn't so much that I felt I was outside of something, as I didn't feel inside of something.
“I saw these guys and gals competing for most popular this and that, the prom queen or the prom king, and I was like: 'What rubbish!' It's absolute crap.
"I was raised in such a way that I wasn't like 'eyes on the prize', you know. It was more 'just get through it' - get what you can and keep moving!"
