Lily-Rose Depp Was 'Traumatized' byEdward Scissorhandsas a Kid: 'Everyone Was Being So Mean' to My Dad

Mar. 15, 2025

Lily-Rose Depp’s feelings towardsEdward Scissorhandsare complicated.

While theNosferatustar, 25, promoted her new horror movie in an interview withHarper’s Bazaar U.K.published Thursday, Jan. 2, she recalled her parentsJohnny DeppandVanessa Paradisallowing her to watch her dad’s 1990 classicTim Burtonmovie for the first time at just age 3.

Edward Scissorhands, which marked the first of her dad’s numerous collaborations with filmmaker Burton, 66, follows Johnny as the title character, an artificial humanoid with scissors for hands, who moves in with a suburban family. Edward’s story ends on a less-than-happy note, with citizens from the suburban town chasing him away. Lily-Rose reflected that she found the film’s end “so distressing she has refused to watch it ever since,” asHarper’s Bazaar U.K. reported.

Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder on the set of 1990’s Edward Scissorhands.Twentieth Century Fox Film Corpo/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis

The actress also related her feelings forEdward Scissorhandsto how she feels aboutNosferatu’s title character. “Edward’s the good guy and Nosferatu’s kind of the bad guy, but there’s a part of me that feels a little bit of empathy for Nosferatu,” she told the outlet. “I mean, am I sick for feeling that way?”

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Johnny and Burton reflected on makingEdward Scissorhandsin an untitled documentary series from Tara Wood that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024, in which the actor recalled that figures likeTom Hanks,Tom CruiseandMichael Jacksoncontacted Burton about portraying Edward before he got the part.

Lily-Rose Depp on Dec. 12, 2024.Andrew Toth/WireImage

Andrew Toth/WireImage

The actor said in the documentary that reading the movie’s script “passed through everything, anything, solid and went to the very core of whatever I am. The writing was beautiful. The character was beautiful. What I suppose [attracted] me emotionally was that Edward was me. It’s exactly what I should be doing.”

Lily-Rose is one of Johnny’s two children with ex Paradis, whom Johnny was in a relationship between 1998 and 2012. The former couple also share sonJack, 22; both Jack and Lily-Rose grew up in both France and the United States.

Nosferatuis in theaters now.

source: people.com