“It was like the pink elephant in the room that was never touched upon until it was the day to shoot. Then we just did it really quickly and called it a day.”
— Actress Mila Kunis discussing her lesbian sex scene with Natalie Portman in the new movie “Black Swan”; Kunis says she asked her father not to watch the scene. (MTV.com, Nov. 30)
“I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie.’ Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, ‘What’s wrong with him? … Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?’ And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite … ‘But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?’”
— Actor Johnny Depp on Disney’s reaction to his initial portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow in the popular “Pirates of the Caribbean” series (Vanity Fair via Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30)
Top photo: Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow (Publicity photo)