Johnny Depp's career breakthrough TV hit series 21 Jump Street about highschool cops, by Stephen J. Canell and with Peter DeLuise and Sal Jenco http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed/












 

21 JUMP STREET 


TV Series 1987-1990

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Created by: Stephen J. Canell, Patrick Hasburgh

Developed by: Fox Networks

With: Johnny Depp, Peter Deluise, Dustin Nguyen, Hlly Robinson Peete, Sal Jenco, Michael Bendetti.

5 seasons, 103 episodes, from 1987 till 1991

Tagline: "Too cool for school"

Awards:

- IMAGEN FOUNDATION AWARDS
1988 Imagen Award - Best Drama Series (won)

-YOUNG ARTIST AWARD
1998 YAA, Best Young Actor/Guest Starring in a Television Drama (won)

Billy Jayne, for episode "America, what a town"

 




 





 







SYNOPSIS

21 Jump Street is the headquarters for a squad of police officers who specialize in investigations relating to young people. Each of the Jump St. personnel was selected for their ability to pass for high school or college students, allowing them to operate undercover in areas where it is difficult for regular police officers to blend in unnoticed.


 
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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP


 "Never. I'd rather pump gas. I would never do it again, ever. There's not enough money in Los Angeles".
Johnny Depp, Los Angeles Times 1990

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Johnny Depp and Peter Deluise sang the JUMP!! backup vocals to the opening theme song while Holly Robinson sang the lead.

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"Cops undercover in high school, in my opinion, is borderline fascist."
Johnny Depp, Los Angeles Times 1990

"“I think that people can say and think what they want, but I know for me that as good as that experience or opportunity was, that whole 21 Jump Street' thin, as good as that was for me in the long run in terms of my career. It was like college. That was my college. That was great training five days a week, nine months out of the year in front of a camera learning, learning, learning. It was great schooling, but it was also something where they were pushing me into a direction that I didn't want to be involved with.
 I really hated the idea of being a product on someone else's terms. I'm savvy enough to understand that there is a business side to all of this, but I swore to myself back then that I would do the things that I wanted to do. If I failed, I failed and if it worked, it worked, but that I was going to stick with it."
Johnny Depp, About.com june 2006

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The cot featured in the holding cell in the Jump Street Chapel, was on occasion used by the actors to ensure they would be on time for work. If an actor had gone out partying the night before, they were known to on occasion go to the set and spend the night on the cot to ensure they could not get in trouble for being late to work

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"[Being a teen idol] is like being in a thick plastic bag from which you need to escape with nothing more than a blunt object."
Johnny Depp, P Magazine, august 2003

(On Jonah Hill's  2009 remake of 21 Jump Street) "Depp: Well, I certainly- - why don't I just go back and play- - it'd be good at 42. That would be interesting. To go back and play the same character I played 20 years ago with no one saying anything. A bunch of people going, they don't' say anything to him but they talk behind his back, 'Is he out of his mind? He's really old now but he thinks he's still young.' That, I would love to play."
Johnny Depp, Moviehole, June 2006





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QUOTES FROM OTHERS


He would have much preferred to be on something darker and edgier. I never thought Johnny saw how good it was because he really disdained the show. He made it pretty well known that he didn't want to be on it. I remember once he came to the set dressed like Elton John. He had a powdered wig on and platform shoes.

Stephen J. Cannell, Biography, 2004

When I first saw Johnny he had a felt hat pulled down and these deep brown eyes peering out, with a coat that went to the floor. He was as cute as a bug's ear, but he looked like a waif. And I think that is part of his appeal: He can be waiflike, but his charisma comes through.

Joan Carson, producer, US Magazine, June 1989

I don't always agree with him, but I see where he's coming from. He fights hard for what he believes in, and he has a tendency to fight for other people as well, which sometimes puts another strand of gray in my hair.

Joan Carson,  producer, US Magazine, June 1989\

 

“He was the star. There was no doubt in anybody's mind, and I think he really resented that. On the show they would always randomly cut back to his face while he was listening to other people talk—he was forced to react and make faces, and that made him mad. So John [Whitmore, the director] came up with this great idea: he'd say “I'll tell you what, you don't have to make faces, I will give you the subtext of the scene. There is poop somewhere nearby, and at the beginning of the scene you sense there is poop, and then you actually smell the poop, and then you can't seem to get away from the poop, and then you need to know where the poop is. Now just work on that.” And if you look at the expression on Johnny's face, he is trying to find the poop.”
Peter DeLuise, 21 Jump Street co-star, 1998



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