From Whitey Bulger to Willy Wonka, the Secrets Behind Johnny Depp's Movie TransformationsBlack Mass’ (2015)

For his latest role as the notorious mobster Whitey Bulger, Johnny Depp wore a detailed prosthetic to give him an immaculately thinning hairline. His makeup artist Joel Harlow told Boston Magazine that there were 50 headpieces in total and that “each day of shooting was a different head.” (Photo: Warner Bros.)

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  ‘Into the Woods’ (2014)

  To play Wolf (as in the Big Bad one), Depp wore a relatively familiar palette of light makeup — with added facial hair. But it was his zoot suit, designed by Colleen Atwood and inspired by Tex Avery’s MGM cartoons from the 1940s and '50s, that stood out. (Photo: Disney)

   

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    'The Lone Ranger’ (2013)

    Depp told Yahoo Movies he would wear his Tonto makeup four days in a row while filming. “I could shower with the makeup on, and it wouldn’t come off,” he said. “By the end of a 14-hour, 16-hour day, and all you can think of is the next hour and a half I’m going to use to take this makeup off, and then I’m going to come in in the morning and I’m gonna put it on again? No. I’m an old man. I’m going to sleep.” (Photo: Disney)

     

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