(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-12-21 15:37

Johnny Depp

 

Director Tim Burton was too shy to ask actor Johnny Depp to be his son's godfather and made his wife Helena Bonham Carter do the asking instead.

Depp immediately accepted but was surprised that Burton did not ask him himself as they were working together on 'Charlie and The Chocolate Factory' at the time, reports contactmusic.com.

Depp said: 'This is Tim Burton in a nutshell. We were doing 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' and I was on the set... one of my pals comes up and says, 'Helena just called. When you get a moment, she'd like you to give her a call back.' So I go back to the trailer, call Helena, and say, 'Hey, what's going on? Is everything all right?' And she says, 'Everything's fine. But, well, you know how Tim is. He wants to know if you'd be... he'd like for you to be Billy's godfather.'

'I say, 'But I was just with Tim three minutes ago. I had to leave him to walk back to the trailer to call you.' She said she called me to ask because Tim just couldn't. That was his way of asking. I went back to the set and said, `Thank you.' I told him that I was honoured.'

The actor added: 'It doesn't get heavier than saying, `I'd like you to be the godfather of my son.' But he's not ever going to put himself into a corny kind of situation with a pal. He's like, `Good, yeah, yeah.' Boom. `Let's get back into the work'.'