It is by selling pens by telephone at the turn of the eighties that Johnny Depp, young punk rocker in galley in the City of the Angels, affirms to have begun his "training" of actor, inventing at the end of the wire of the different characters to deceive the boredom. But it is through Alison, his first wife, a make-up artist in Hollywood, that he enters as an anonymous mercenary in the bunkers of the dream factory, passing without being seen in a few second-rate films. The dazzling success of a series for teenagers, "21 Jump Street," catapults him to the top. "Cry-Baby" by John Waters, then "Edward Scissorhands" will make him a movie star.