As a kid, Christina Riccigot a remote life lesson from an unexpected teacher: Johnny Depp.
1989 was the year. Ricci was filming this movie.MermaidsWith Winona Ryder, the actor’s girlfriend at the time, and she recalled witnessing a possibly anti-gay confrontation between two other people on set.
“Johnny is actually the person who explained to me what homosexuality was when I was 9,”Ricci has just spoken Andy Cohenon SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live. “There was something going on on-set and someone was not being nice to someone else. And they were like, ‘Oh, well he might be homophobic.’ And then I was like, ‘Well, I don’t understand what that is.'”
TheYellowjackets actress continued, “I was in Winona’s trailer and…she put me on the phone with Johnny. And Johnny explained it to me.”
Ricci said Depp used “the simplest terms” to define homosexuality. “He was like, ‘It’s when a man wants to have sex with a man and when a woman wants to have sex with a woman,'”The 42-year old recalled. “I was like, ‘Ah okay.'”