My chick’s ring’s not very subtle: Depp

Actor Johnny Depp attends a promotional event of his new movie 'Transcendence', on his first visit to China in Beijing on March 31, 2014. Photo: Stringer

Actor Johnny Depp attends a promotional event of his new movie 'Transcendence', on his first visit to China in Beijing on March 31, 2014. Photo: Stringer

Published Apr 1, 2014

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Beijing - Johnny Depp showed off a diamond engagement ring that he called a “chick's ring” on Monday - indirectly confirming rumours of his engagement to actress Amber Heard.

Asked whether he was engaged, the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star replied: “The fact that I'm wearing a chick's ring on my finger is probably a dead giveaway. Not very subtle.” He laughed as he lifted up his left hand and displayed a single diamond on a band around his ring finger.

His comments follow months of unconfirmed reports of his engagement to actress Heard, 27, who starred alongside Kevin Costner in ‘3 Days to Kill’ released in the US earlier this year.

In a trademark off-the-wall comment, Depp said: “I think that I would be better at making women's shoes than I would be at wedding planning, I can't plan anything. I'm really bad at that stuff.”

The 50-year-old actor was in Beijing to promote his new movie ’Transcendence’. Depp plays a terminally ill scientist who downloads his mind into a computer in the sci-fi drama that asks:

What if we could upload a human mind into a computer? It also stars Rebecca Hall as Depp's wife and Morgan Freeman.

“The technology that exists within the film, what I find most fascinating is that a lot of it exists already and by all accounts from scholars and professors and scientists that species of technology is not far away, that kind of artificial intelligence,” said Depp in an interview.

“It's one of those films that one person is forced to make a choice in an instant, when your loved one is dying and you have a split-second decision if you have the ability to upload their consciousness into a computer, would you do that? It's quite a strange decision to make but for love I think we would all do it.”

“Transcendence” comes out in China on April 18 - the same day as the US release. - Sapa-AP

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