Serial-killer Depp

Johnny Depp at the premiere of <i>Sweeney Todd</i>. Photo / Reuters
Johnny Depp at the premiere of <i>Sweeney Todd</i>. Photo / Reuters

KEY POINTS:

    He once likened his singing voice to "the mating call of a rutting stag".

    But Johnny Depp hasn't let it get in the way of arguably his most challenging film role yet - an all-singing turn as the serial-killing barber Sweeney Todd in a remake of the Stephen
    Sondheim musical.