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New York, Sept 18: Hollywood star Johnny Depp may have played the role of a coarse pirate, in The Pirates of the Caribbean movies, to the hilt but the actor was equally at ease wearing women's clothes during the filming of Ed Wood, in which he played the real-life, cross-dressing movie director.

In the upcoming biography, "The Secret World of Johnny Depp," author Nigel Goodall says Depp found out that just like Wood Depp had a liking for angora sweaters as a young boy.

Goodall quotes the star as saying: "I love angora sweaters. Oh man, they're unbelievable. They really feel good. This girl I dated when I was a teen-ager, she had an angora sweater. When we broke up, I was upset, but not about her. It was the sweater."

But his interest in all things soft and slinky really peaked when he was signed by director Tim Burton to play the quirky Wood and began parading around as a woman in full drag to get into character, reports the New York Post, as saying.

Depp also got a package from "Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls," ex-porn star Veronica Vera's quirky Manhattan school that teaches men how to become transvestites. (ANI)