Johnny's The Father...

Johnny DeppJohnny Depp is the daddy...

The god-daddy, that is.

For none other than his good ol' chum Tim Burton.

But it wasn't actually Tim that did the asking. Instead, he got his wifey, Helena Bonham Carter to put the idea to Johnny.

Which left our Johnny a wee bit confused about why Tim hadn't personally asked him to be four-year-old Billy's godfather...

Johnny told Esquire: "This is Tim Burton in a nutshell - we were doing Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and I was on the set.

"One of my pals comes up and says, 'Helena just called. When you get a moment, she'd like you to give her a call back.' So I go back to the trailer, call Helena, and say, 'Hey, what's going on?

Helena Bonham Carter"Is everything all right?' And she says, 'Everything's fine. But, well, you know how Tim is. He wants to know if you'd be? He'd like for you to be Billy's godfather.'

"I say, 'But I was just with Tim. I was with him three minutes ago. I had to leave him to walk back to the trailer to call you.' So she called me to ask because Tim just couldn't. That was his way of asking. I went back to the set and said, 'Thank you.' I told him that I was honoured.

"It doesn't get heavier than saying, 'I'd like you to be the godfather of my son.' But he's not ever going to put himself into a corny kind of situation with a pal. He's like, 'Good, yeah, yeah.' Boom. 'Let's get back into the work.'"