Who do we have to thank for encourage Depp to pursue the life of an actor? Try Nic Cage, who met the younger Depp via Lori Anderson, who Depp married in 1983.

"I met Johnny many years ago - he was a guitar player and had come to Los Angeles from Florida," Cage remembers.

"We had a mutual friend and we were just playing Monopoly one day. I told him he ought to try acting so I introduced him to my agent and the next day he got his first audition and got the part.

"I can't really take credit for it... I was just one small step in his whole career... but that's just how it happened. It was quite simple."

Oh, and don't ask him who won the Monopoly game - he can't remember…

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