Johnny Depp's Head Made a Cameo on THE WALKING DEAD Last Night
If you watched The Walking Dead last night, then you saw a cameo of Johnny Depp's head and didn't even know it!
There are some light spoilers ahead in case you didn't see the episode yet:
In last night's episode, Rick devises a plan to infiltrate a part of Negan's compound to straight up murder him and his followers. To help get their foot in the door they needed a severed head that that somewhat resembled the Hilltop leader Gregory. So Rick sent a couple people out to cut off the heads of a few Walkers that bore a resemblance. They came back with three different heads to choose from.
One of the heads was modeled after executive producer Greg Nicotero and another one of the heads was modeled after Depp. Nicotero revealed this bit of trivia in an interview with EW and explained how it all happened, saying:
"It’s kind of funny because a lot of people ask me how many cameos I do in the show as a walker. The Gregory head is actually a cast of my head. When Xander Berkeley was cast as Gregory, we didn’t have enough time to get him to Los Angeles to do a head cast and make a dummy head of him, so I sent photos of him and I said, 'Here’s a picture of the actor. Let’s see what we have in stock that looks as close to Xander as it can be.' It ended up being a mold of my head. So that head that he picks up is actually a fake head of me!
"One of the other heads, I don’t know if I’m going to get in trouble if I say this, was Johnny Depp. 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. Norman kept saying he wanted the heads when we were done shooting. I said we’ve got to wait until the picture is logged. 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. I laughed so hard when we shot that scene."
I thought that bit of fun information that fans of the franchise might appreciate.