Random Facts: Who Advised Johnny Depp to Act?

Who Advised Johnny Depp to Act?
What Humpty Dumpty really an egg?
Who created the modern Oval Office? 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was kind of random. Mel dyed for Random
Facts with Mel Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
So it was actually Nicholas Cage who first advised Johnny
Depp to pursue a career in acting. During the mid
nineteen eighties. Footloose didn't have a big enough budget to
shoot a big dance scene for the ending, but test
audiences felt so cheated that the studio ended up paying
two hundred thousand bucks to shoot that scene just six
weeks before the movie opened, which, thank goodness, it couldn't

(00:28):
have closed like that. In the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme,
there's no mention of him being an egg. That's just
how he's evolved to look in pop culture, I wanted
to say the Humpty dance. The word turquoise is based
on the word Turkish because it described the color of
the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of southern Turkey gorgeous.

(00:49):
And the modern Oval office was only created in nineteen
thirty four. It was designed so that President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
who used a wheelchair, could move easily between the office
and the residents to look today ature random facts