"He said I was a junkie and that he didn't work with junkies," Feldman said Depp told producers on the film, later adding, "Who knows what would have happened?" ...

He was in "The Goonies" with Sean Astin, and he apparently was close to taking Astin's "The Lord of the Rings" job from him.

It's probably for the best he didn't get the part, as it's hard to imagine anyone other than Sean Astin in the role.