Johnny Depp remained at the top of the A-list for a long time thanks to his varied character performances, but he could have easily followed a different path if his part in Platoon hadn’t been cut back so much. Depp’s very first role in film was in the wildly successful slasher flick, A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. Considering the landscape of horror movies compared to other genre films, it was never likely that that would be the jumping off point in his career, but at least it got his foot in the door.
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Author: Ben Gibbons
