3. Sweeney Todd in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The role of a murderous barber in the 2007 film required Depp to sing. He and the rest of the cast also also had to audition for Stephen Sondheim, who produced the score for the 1979 Broadway production of Sweeney Todd. "I really didn't know if I could pull it off, which is why I said to Tim [Burton] that I was going to go off and try some stuff," Depp told the U.K.'s Daily ... more 

3. Sweeney Todd in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The role of a murderous barber in the 2007 film required Depp to sing. He and the rest of the cast also also had to audition for Stephen Sondheim, who produced the score for the 1979 Broadway production of Sweeney Todd. "I really didn't know if I could pull it off, which is why I said to Tim [Burton] that I was going to go off and try some stuff," Depp told the U.K.'s Daily Mail. "I went to a buddy's little garage studio and I started to record the songs to see if I could get over the initial fear of that type of exposure. So I did that and sent it to Tim and he felt we were OK. I started to get more confident, but then the idea of me standing in front of a guy at a piano singing scales seemed against my instinct. It said, 'This is wrong. It doesn't matter if you know how to sing. Just sing.' So that's what I did. Although Sondheim was probably weeping after that performance." Depp ended up receiving an Oscar nomination for his performance. less