answers to someone’s questions via PM;

This is in reference to my story published on Literotica.com. (ETA: no longer; it is now published here.)

I wrote Johnny’s character as a little bit passive, because of who he’s with. I get the sense that he would totally sponge up personality traits from anyone he admired, and people have said he can mimic Brando’s voice perfectly.
Depp is 42 now- so he would have been 31 when he did Don Juan, which came out in 1995- so, the way I count Men’s years, he was nearly an adult at that time. But, if Brando had wanted him to be a boy, he would have been. Partly out of love, and partly because that role would get him the biggest reward as far as their friendship was concerned, you know? Not for greed in any way but the greed that comes from love.
He’s not passive exactly, but he’s totally willing to take direction from Brando. And that’s not because he trusts him, although he does- but that trust comes from Johnny’s own sense of himself, something that Brando always lacked- the knowledge that he himself, is completely the master of his own fate. He knows damn well that Brando is abusing his power, this particular evening, but he makes his own decision, out of love, to follow willingly. And once he’s made that promise to himself, he would never back down. And, I would think too, that he’s assessed the whole thing, and decided that Brando would never take anything so far as to hurt him- that Johnny’s personal limits are further than Brando’s could be.
Which is why, when Brando breathes himself into Johnny- he gets pushed out again. Johnny’s soul has the strength to pick and choose, and would not take the destructive aspects into itself.
In real life, Johnny has fought very hard for this sense of self- and he was incredibly lucky too, that some influential people fought for him; Nick Cage, Tim Burton, to name two. People who said “You can trust me” and proved it.
Brando didn’t get much of that, in his life. He really was a rebel without a cause, rebelling when it wasn’t necessary at all, and it pushed a lot of good people away from him. And by the time he met Johnny, his son had shot and killed his son-in-law- in Brando’s home- and there had been a horrific trial, and his inlaws were completely estranged. His family life was in total ruins, basically. He was just recovering from all of that.
Johnny was the one who brought Brando onto “Don Juan”; He’d already become powerful enough to make casting decisions. And he was still so humble that it took him weeks to get up the courage to call Brando, after the agents had given him the number, to ask him if he would consider doing it. Can you imagine how heaven-sent this kid must have seemed?
So, that little story was my catalyst.

The only mistake, I think, in my portrayal of Johnny- is him dancing to no music. Evidently, he thinks he is a terrible dancer! But, I left it in as my own bit of self-indulgence.

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