Johnny Depp has suggested he was the preferred actor for the lead role of Jim Sheridan's 1993 film 'In The Name Of The Father.'
Daniel Day Lewis portrayed Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly jailed for the IRA bombing of a pub in Guilford in 1974.
Now in the foreword of a new biography, 54 year old Depp has written about their friendship.
He claims the Belfast man had broached the subject of the actor playing him in the movie about his life.
