Johnny Depp in a snuff film in exchange for money for his family. Depp was a fan and friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, and played his alter ego Raoul Duke in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998), Terry Gilliam's film adaptation of Thompson's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp's next venture with Burton was the period film "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), in which he played Ichabod Crane opposite Christina Ricci and Christopher Walken. For his performance, Depp took inspiration from Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall and Basil Rathbone. He stated that he "always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile
Johnny Depp situation...[because] that could have been fatal.'" In 2016, then-wife Amber Heard claimed that Depp "'plunged into the depths of paranoia and violence after bingeing on drugs and alcohol,'" although a joint statement issued by Heard and Depp in connection with their divorce denied that either party intended "'physical or emotional harm'" to the other. In 2018, reporter Stephen Rodrick of "Rolling Stone" wrote that Depp had used hashish in his presence and described Depp as "alternately hilarious, sly and incoherent"; Rodrick also quoted Depp as stating that a claim that he had spent US$30,000 per month on wine was "'insulting'"