JOHNNY DEPP MAY PLAY CAROL CHANNING

Johnny Depp

Famed Hello Dolly star Carol Channing is giving a heads-up to Hollywood actor Johnny Depp's gender-bending plans to portray her in a movie. The award winning actor, regularly changes his appearance for films, and even dressed as a woman in the hit 1994 comedy Ed Wood. Earlier this month the star revealed his "dream role" would be to play 88-year-old Channing because "she’s amazing". Now Channing is giving her approval, because she’d love to see how he would interpret her on the big screen. She says, "It is not a new concept to me. Not at all. Men have been imitating me for as long as I can remember. In fact, most of the impersonations I have seen have had a five o’clock shadow. "I imagine, when or if Johnny should portray me, he will succeed. Because a true artist, such as himself, is one who loves his or her creation and therefore represents their honest view of that which they are creating. I think he is a gifted performer and I would be very proud, as well as interested in seeing what his vision of me would be."
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