ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So have you seen Charlie since then?
JOHNNY DEPP: I still haven't. I find it so difficult to watch anything I'm in. I don't like to be aware of myself in that way. I love discovering moments on the set. But I can't stand the idea that I have to see it later. I truly feel like it's none of my business. There's always that moment of, Well why did I do that? What the f--- were you thinking? It's horrible, seeing myself. Once they say, ''You're wrapped,'' you just walk away. Walk away and keep walkin'.

So are you saying you will never sit down and watch Sweeney Todd?
I may see bits. There are definitely things I'd like to see. Unfortunately, I'm involved in them.

Was it hard to shake the Sweeney character once you wrapped?
It's a couple of weeks, where you're getting the rest of that skin off, you know, the residue. But...it was good to be done. It wasn't like with other characters, like with [Pirates of the Caribbean's] Captain Jack.

You're fond of Captain Jack. What about seeing yourself as an animatronic Jack at Disneyland?
The idea of my character being put into the ride forever and ever, and that my grandchildren will go there and see that — that'll spin you out. That was a hard one to deal with. It was so absurd, the notion that this character is now in Disneyland. It was to me as absurd as seeing any other character that I'd happened to play, like Raoul Duke or any of them.

Are you sick of seeing Captain Jack at this point?
It was all so strange. You know, when you see yourself on cereal boxes and stuff like that, you had to embrace it. It was so bizarre that you had to be proud of it.

What's going on with the movie of Shantaram? [Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical novel about an ex-heroin addict and escaped convict who flees to Bombay and sets up a health clinic.]
Mira Nair is going to direct. We start sometime in January or February, I think in India. [I've] been talking about this one for going on three years now, and it will be nice to see it come alive. I'm just starting to prepare for it.

And what about talk that you'd like to do a Dark Shadows feature, from Dan Curtis' old occult soap-opera TV series?
If that comes to fruition, that's a dream come true, man. Barnabas Collins — when I was a kid I wanted to be Barnabas.

Why him? Why a vampire?
I think a lot of kids did. He was super-mysterious, with that really weird hairdo and the wolf's-head cane. Good stuff.

Want more on the new Johnny Depp-Tim Burton musical? Check out our inside look at the making of Sweeney Todd.

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