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Lily-Rose Depp is sharing some of her earliest entertainment memories with younger brother Jack Depp.
“I was always a fan of the Dracula tale,” Lily-Rose, 25, shared on the Monday, December 16, episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “My brother and I were obsessed with Abbott and Costello as kids, and, you know, they have a whole, like, Meet the Monsters series.”
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were a comedy duo whose work in radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s.
One project that stood out to Lily-Rose and her younger brother — whose parents are Johnny Depp and French singer Vanessa Paradis — was the pair’s “Meet Dracula” episode with actor Bela Lugosi.
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“My brother was 3 or 4 at the time, and he started dressing up like Dracula and doing these kind of really serious line readings of the lines,” Lily-Rose recalled to host Jimmy Fallon. “So in a way, I grew up as, like, the older sister to Dracula.”
Perhaps it’s only fitting then that the actress is starring in a new film, titled Nosferatu. The movie is an adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s 1897 novel Dracula.
Before saying yes to the film, Lily-Rose couldn’t help but recall more than a few childhood memories with Jack, 22.
“When I got the opportunity to audition for this movie, I thought, ‘How full circle,’” she said. “Maybe I’ll get some cool points with my bro.”
Spoiler alert: She absolutely did.
“He saw the movie. He loved the movie,” she said. “It’s the tale of a 19th-century young woman who is haunted by this ancient vampire, and from this connection follows a lot of chaos and a great story.”
While Lily-Rose has found success in Hollywood, Jack has chosen to live a quieter life outside of the spotlight.
For the past two years, Jack has reportedly been working at L’Area, a Lebanese restaurant in Paris. “Jack is a great guy,” owner Edouard Chueke told the Daily Mail in an interview published December 7. “He keeps out of the limelight, but worked here behind the bar and in the kitchen.”
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As for his older sister, she showed signs of wanting to be a star from a very young age. While appearing on The Tonight Show, Lily-Rose recalled the band she tried to create with Harley Quinn Smith at the young age of 6.
“We were called the Pink Elephants and it was all about elephants,” she said with a laugh. “We were both all about elephants as kids and she had this pink elephant stuffed animal. It was highly coveted in the group. … At some point, the band had to break up and we didn’t quite go all the way.”
Nosferatu is in theaters everywhere on December 25. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs on NBC weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET.
