(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Johnny Depp has compared appearing in photoshoots to being "raped".

The Hollywood icon is famously private and dislikes watching himself on screen. Although he enjoys making movies, he's not interested in the other trappings of fame.

Johnny discussed his hatred of appearing in staged pictures in a new interview with Vanity Fair. He also explained he has no issue with posing for fan photographs.

"Well, you just feel like you're being raped somehow. Raped... It feels like a kind of weird - just weird, man," he told Nick Tosches. "Whenever you have a photoshoot or something like that, it's like - you just feel dumb. It's just so stupid."

Johnny's new movie is The Rum Diary, which is adaptation of a novel written by Hunter S. Thompson. It's about a journalist who moves from New York to Puerto Rico and struggles to settle.

The actor appeared in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was based on another of the author's works. It was preparing for that movie which introduced Johnny to The Rum Diary.

He was spending time with Hunter at his home to help in get in character when they found the book by chance. It was written in the 60s but not published until 1998.

"I pulled it out. I was like, What is this?' Hunter was like, Oh, [bleep], The Rum Diary...' Hunter didn't know it was there," Johnny laughed.

The actor also discussed his 2004 picture The Libertine, about a poet who led a colourful life but only achieved critical acclaim after he died.

The movie was given a limited release by film producer and movie studio head Harvey Weinstein, which Johnny didn't agree with.

"He basically said he [bleep]ed it... He made a choice to kill it, Harvey killed a great film," the star insisted. (C) Cover Media