Johnny Depp is the Dr. Feelgood of the week

Johnny Depp

By EW Staff
Published on December 9, 2005 05:00AM EST

Adding to his oeuvre of oddballs, the Libertine star will play a heroin-addicted Australian fugitive who becomes a gunrunning doctor in Bombay in director Peter Weir’s Shantaram.

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