Johnny Depp + 'Family Guy'!

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Johnny Depp is going to be a real cut-up on Family Guy: The film star will return to his role from Tim Burtons Edward Scissorhands in an upcoming episode of the animated Fox comedy, EW has learned.

In a brief cameo, Depp voices Edward in one of the shows cutaway gags. It did take a second for the actor who watches the show with his kids to get back into that vulnerable character from two decades ago, though. When he was in the booth,he said that he felt like he hadnt done that voice since he did it in frontof the camera, notes Family Guy executive producer Mark Hentemann. He was able to snap right back into Edward Scissorhands once we pulled up a clip from the movie. Adds Hentemann: He was amazing and demonstrated extraordinary patience with all the fawning women in our office who swarmed him.

Family Guy returns for season 11 on Sept. 30.

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