Lily-Rose Depp's road to Nosferatu: 'People have been ready to see me fail'

By: Shawn
Lily-Rose Depp doesn't mind if people want to see her fail since she's aiming to "prove them wrong."

The actress, the daughter of actor-musician Johnny Depp and French model-actress-singer Vanessa Paradis, recently spoke with Vanity Fair on her struggle to develop her own identity in Hollywood, amid criticism.

Lily-Rose Depp.
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"I feel like people have been ready to see me fail, in a way, since I was a kid," she say. "That has just motivated me to strive harder and prove them incorrect. Not in a vengeful way, but rather as fuel for my fire. I want to establish that I am a hard worker, and I am only here to work hard. But Rob [Eggers, Nosferatu's director] was on my bucket list. I didn't expect to work with him so quickly, so early in my career."

The Idol star added that she's accustomed to the continual pressure since "it's been my life" and she "comes from a family of artists."

"Both of my parents are these incredible artists and I have grown up with that," Depp explained. "Respecting them both and what they do, as well as trying to discover my own identity in this world, has been intriguing when everyone believes you're here for the wrong reasons or don't deserve to be here. You can either sit there and scream about it and say, 'This isn't fair!' or you can say, 'Okay, I'm just going to work really, really hard and do my best.'"

She disclosed that she enjoys performing, so "if people still want to talk shit or see me in a certain way, then that's not my problem."

Depp, who plays Ellen Hutter opposite Bill Skarsgård's iconic vampire in Nosferatu, revealed to a magazine that the most challenging aspect of the role was dealing with the imposter syndrome and questioning her own abilities.

"Getting to a place where I felt confident enough within myself to be like, 'I can do this and I am here for a reason,' I definitely have struggled with that," Depp continued. "Humility is quite important, particularly in this sector. In a way, I always want to feel like I'm just getting started and have so much to learn, which is exactly how I feel." Hollywood Above

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