Johnny Depp as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film "Finding Neverland" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since "Sleepy Hollow". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. "Chocolate Factory" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation "Corpse Bride" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of
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'"