This is from Premiere Magazine:

The Libertine
Johnny Depp rips through Restoration England with a bottle of wine under one arm, a whore under the other.

 

By Matthew Rose

 

Starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, and Samantha Morton

Directed by Laurence Dunmore (Mr. Mudd)

 

English history is full of hell-raisers, but no one captured the 17th-century imagination like John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. As the infamous poet and boozy courtier, Johnny Depp rips through Restoration England with a bottle of wine under one arm, a whore under the other. He finally succumbs to the talents of his theatrical protégée (Samantha Morton), before dying a miserable death from syphilis at age 33.

 

In the mid-'90s, John Malkovich approached Depp about starring as the earl in this adaptation of Stephen Jeffreys's play, after portraying the rake himself at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. (In the film, Malkovich stars as King Charles II.)

 

"My first reaction was, 'Why not you?' " Depp recalls. " 'You're so good. You should do it.' And he said, 'No, no, no, I want you to play it.' " Politeness aside, it's a raunchy role Depp was born to play: Think Jack Sparrow meets the Marquis de Sade. "Wilmot was one of the original self-destructive libertines," says Depp. "He's never been given his due. It's easy to say he was this satirist, he wrote dirty little jokes about King Charles or whatever—but it was much deeper than that. He was an amazing poet and maybe the first punk rocker."

 

And what's a rock star without a mosh pit? Today, at a restoration theater on the Isle of Man, Lord Rochester and his merry wits are making a rowdy entrance. Hundreds of mud-caked extras serve as the scene's bacchanalian spectators—eating, drinking, and hurling unlikely terms of endearment at their beloved hedonist.

 

"We've yet to shoot our naked stuff," says coproducer Russell Smith (Ghost World). "But we did some erotic dances with inanimate objects, penis-shaped . . . things, and the crew has begun running around naked anyway. The Libertine is something they've embraced!"

 

"I haven't had the good fortune to see that," says Malkovich. "But it would not surprise me—it's a spirited group."

The movie came out to mixed reviews.  People were saying it was a real downer.  So I guess its another movie I'll be watching on cable. 

Johnny Depp is definitely HOT!  Wait for The Pirates of the Carribean II this summer. 

When I saw "Pirates of the Caribbean" I kept thinking the Johnny Depp character reminded me of someone, but I couldn't figure out who......Then I saw Johnny Depp in an interview where he said he made the character to copy the mannerisms of Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, and then I knew who it was he reminded me of.....