In the January issue of Vanity Fair, Johnny Depp tells rocker Patti Smith it was a "pleasant surprise" working with Angelina Jolie on their upcoming thriller, The Tourist.

"You don't know what she might be like -- if she has any sense of humor at all," the actor, 47, tells the mag of the star, who has six kids with beau Brad Pitt. "I was so pleased to find that she is incredibly normal, and has a wonderfully kind of dark, perverse sense of humor."

Depp, who has children Lily-Rose, 11, and Jack, 8, with girlfriend of 12 years Vanessa Paradis, even likens the Oscar winner, 35, to another film legend.

"I've had the honor and the pleasure and the gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years," he says. "You you know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious. Angie's got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach." Credits: US Magazine & Vanity Fair Source: http://bit.ly/eAi4vj Get latest entertainment news right here on AXN.