Lily-Rose Depp says “Edward Scissorhands ”'traumatized' her because 'everyone was being so mean' to dad Johnny

For many, director Tim Burton's 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands — the fantastical tale of a sweet man with scissors for hands adapting to life in suburbia — is beloved. Lily-Rose Depp, the actress daughter of star Johnny Depp, is not one of those people.

"I was traumatized by it," the younger Depp, who's 25, said in a new interview with the U.K. edition of Harper's Bazaar. "Not because I thought he was scary, but because everyone was being so mean to him and I got really upset."

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The star of the new movie Nosferatu, the reimagining of the 1922 silent film of the same name, compared her father's character to Bill Skarsgård's antagonist Count Orlok.

"I remember being petrified by that," Depp said of the scene when the neighbors insist that Edward leave their community, "which is weird, because I don't have many memories from when I was that young ... Edward's the good guy and Nosferatu's kind of the bad guy, but there's a part of me that feels a little bit of empathy for Nosferatu. I mean, am I sick for feeling that way?"

Depp called the viewing of the Burton film, which she hasn't done since, "a difficult childhood memory."

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At the time of its release, the film received an "A-" from EW critic Owen Gleiberman.

"I loved the film simply for the character of Edward, who is Burton's purest achievement as a director so far," he raved. "As an image, a presence, he's at once poetic and heartbreaking, and the innocent aggression implicit in his hands creates undercurrents of rich, subversive comedy."

The highly-anticipated Nosferatu, which arrived in theaters Dec. 25, features the actress alongside Skarsgård, playing a vampire who becomes obsessed with Depp's character of Ellen Hutter. Nicholas Hoult portrays her husband, Thomas Hutter. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corin, and Willem Dafoe costar in director Robert Eggers' take on Bram Stoker's goth classic, which was originally published in 1897.

Depp revealed in the same interview that she's generally "interested in the darker underbelly of things."

"As an actor," she continued, "you hope that your role will be as meaty as can be, so you have as much to dive into as possible."

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Nosferatu is certainly dark, as Skarsgård himself has noted.

"It was like conjuring pure evil," he told Esquire about playing the character. "It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me."

Nosferatu is in theaters now.

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