Depp-capitated! The Walking Dead director Greg Nicotero reveals Johnny Depp's head made a cameo in Sunday night's episode
Johnny Depp made a cameo appearance on Sunday night's The Walking Dead... or at least, a bit of him did.
The director of the episode revealed that one of the severed zombie heads featured in a particularly gruesome scene was none other that the Pirates Of The Caribbean star.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, exec producer and special effects guru Greg Nicotero was explaining the scene in which Andrew Lincoln's character Rick collects the heads of a number of Walkers in an attempt to find one resembling Hilltop leader Gregory.
Depp-capitated! The Walking Dead director Greg Nicotero has revealed Johnny Depp's head made a cameo in Sunday night's episode (R)
'It’s kind of funny because a lot of people ask me how many cameos I do in the show as a walker,' Nicotero said. 'The Gregory head is actually a cast of my head.'
He revealed that a the actor who plays Gregory - Xander Berkeley - could not make it to LA in time to have his head cast, so Nicotero sent a photo f the actor to his make-up crew and asked them to go through their 'stock' of heads to find a lookalike - and they came back with his.
But for one of the other severed heads, they based it on an even more famous face.
'One of the other heads, I don’t know if I’m going to get in trouble if I say this, was Johnny Depp,' he revealed.
Permission: 'One of the other heads, I don’t know if I’m going to get in trouble if I say this, was Johnny Depp,' he revealed
Alteration: In an unsettlingly funny scene, Rick addresses the problem of the dead zombie's noticeably different nose by picking the head up by the hair and pummeling its face with his fist
'I think we had sculpted an emaciated version of a dummy head for something and we used Johnny Depp’s head as a basis just for a clay sculpt.
'I can’t remember who the third one is, but I’m in good company,' he added.
He also revealed that Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon n the hit MAC show, wanted to keep the heads for himself when they were done shooting.
Substitution: Nicotero revealed that a the actor who plays Gregory - Xander Berkeley - could not make it to LA in time to have his head cast, so Nicotero sent a photo f the actor to his make-up crew and asked them to go through their 'stock' of heads to find a lookalike - and they came back with his
Muppet: The director said one of the funniest moments he'd shot in the season is when the Savior sticks his hand inside the head and puppeteers it to start talking; 'I laughed so hard when we shot that scene,' he said.
'I think one of the funniest moments we’ve shot in the season is when the Savior sticks his hand inside the head and puppeteers it to start talking,' he added. 'I laughed so hard when we shot that scene.'
The scene in question saw the group take the lookalike head to the compound of bad guy Negan, who had demanded Gregory's head in return for the release of one of his crew.
In an unsettlingly funny scene, Rick addresses the problem of the dead zombie's noticeably different nose by picking the head up by the hair and pummeling its face with his fist.
In 2012, HBO was forced to apologise when former president George W Bush's head turned up as a decapitated prop on a spike in Game Of Thrones.
Swap: The scene in question saw the group take the lookalike head to the compound of bad guy Negan, who had demanded Gregory's (pictured centre) head in return for the release of one of his crew
Statement: In 2012, HBO was forced to apologise when former president George W Bush's head (L) turned up as a decapitated prop on a spike in Game Of Thrones
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