Johnny Depp is getting up close and personal in his latest interview talking about his childhood and more when he started exploring his creative self.

Johnny Depp is a creative genius whose artistic accolades include a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and multiple Oscar nominations.

The celebrity debuted his acting career in 1984 at the age of 21 and since then, his career has been unstoppable.

Johnny Depp’s lifelong passion for art forever got him into trouble

Johnny Depp realized early where his passions lie and since then, there’s been no turning back.

The actor shared in a new interview, “Since I was a little kid, my escape from reality was a piece of paper and a pencil.”

“So I was always drawing, getting in trouble for it, even in school, and getting yelled at by the teacher in first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, for just drawing: drawing Frankenstein, Dracula,

The Mummy and Wolf Man. And weirdly, dark things, like sort of universal monsters.  So drawing has always been a part of my life and painting as well –

I started painting a long time ago now, but never thinking that I was going to display paintings or anything,” the actor revealed.

What’s next for Depp?

Johnny Depp is working on his second direction gig for the film Modigliani, a movie about Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani.

Al Pacino has accepted a role in the movie where he will be portraying the role of real-life art collector Maurice Gangnat.

Along with Pacino, Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio is also starring in the film as the protagonist, and French actor Pierre Niney will be enacting the role of French painter Maurice Utrillo.

The film’s producers have given a sneak peek at the story sharing, Modigliani “follows a chaotic series of events through the streets and bars of war-torn Paris in 1916.”

The painter is “on the run from the police [and his] desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow Bohemians: French artist Maurice Utrillo, the Belarusian-born Chaïm Soutine, and English muse Beatrice Hastings.”