Girlfriend Wants Johnny Depp to Quit 'The Tourist'

Thu, 04 March 2010 21:38:32 ET

Vanessa Paradis reportedly has asked the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star to bow out from the film after learning that he and Angelina Jolie will be having a passionate love scene.

Words on the street are, Johnny Depp has been ordered to quit "The Tourist" by longtime partner Vanessa Paradis. The New York Post reported that the French actress has told the star of "Pirates of the Caribbean" series to find another gig after learning that he will have to shoot a passionate love scene with co-star Angelina Jolie.

It is said that the 37-year-old singer is worried that she will be left heartbroken, seeing that Laura Dern and Jennifer Aniston had experienced similar situation. However, getting the 46-year-old actor to cut himself out of the project will not be as simple as it looks since the filming has started and he has been seen joining Jolie on set at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice on Tuesday, March 2.

Nonetheless, a source close to the project claimed that the Mad Hatter of "Alice in Wonderland" is looking for a way to make it possible. "He's currently trying to [get out of the movie], but I don't know if he's succeeded," the source stated. "But he's trying and they're talking about replacing him with [Jolie's partner] Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio."

Should the story is true, Paradis' concern is not without any base. Jolie hooked up with Pitt while he was still married to Aniston after filming "Mr and Mrs Smith". She also got involved with her "Pushing Tin" co-star Billy Bob Thornton when he was reportedly still engaged to Dern. Reps for the stars, Sony Pictures and producer Graham King could not be reached for comment.

In "The Tourist", Angelina Jolie will portray a female Interpol agent Cara Mason who uses Johnny Depp's American tourist character Frank Taylor as a dupe to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair. Earlier, Life and Style magazine reported that a draft of writer Julian Fellowes' screenplay has revealed that Mason and Taylor will be seen getting cozy in a bathroom.

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