| JOHNNY DEPP on the recreation of 1880's London in
Prague:
"It was unbelievable. The
brothers had been explaining to me that they had built Whitechapel, but I had
no idea what I was actually going to step into. I figured there were going to
be facades, but there were seven blocks of the east end of London. You
literally felt like you'd stepped back in time. There was only London around
you."
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ALBERT HUGHES on working with Ian Holm, who plays Sir William
Gull:
"He's real shy and funny. You
wouldn't notice him on the set, but when we would see dailies we could see that
this little tiny guy was powerful. So we learned a lot about great acting
through the diversity he used in every take."
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ALLEN HUGHES:
"Ian didn't know
this, but we nicknamed him Mighty Mouse. When he came on the set, we'd go
(singing the Mighty Mouse theme under his breath) 'Here I come to save the
day!'"
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JOHNNY DEPP:
"I experimented early on with
which accent to use for Abberline, because the real Abberline was from Dorset
which is West Country and it's a very specific accent, and really a strange
accent in a way. Basically, had I done the Dorset accent, I think people would
have thought that I was doing a really bad English accent. So I went with the
idea of using a south London accent which would say more about Abberline, and
show that he was in fact from the streets, working class, and not from a
privileged background."
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ALBERT HUGHES:
"The challenge and
attraction for us was taking a well-known mystery rich with legend and using
our imagination to give it added dimension."
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JOHNNY DEPP:
"What's the fascination with
Jack the Ripper? The Ripper case, from all that I can tell, was the first time
that a faceless murderer was elevated to the status of an icon and celebrity.
That's why that one line in the film is so resonant, when the Ripper says, 'One
day men will look back and say that I gave birth to the 20th century.' The
Ripper case, in fact, did give birth to the 20th century in a lot of
ways."
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