Last Updated on 05/18/2023 by てんしょく飯
On 17 May local time, the official press conference for the opening film Jeanne du Barry was held at the 76th Cannes International Film Festival.
Johnny Depp spoke candidly about the current situation surrounding him.
In 2020, Johnny was dropped from the fantasy epic Fantastic Beasts series after losing a defamation lawsuit in the UK over allegations of domestic violence against his ex-wife Amber Heard. The following year, she told The Sunday Times that she was “boycotted [in Hollywood]” after the North American release date of her starring film MINAMATA was not easily fixed, but in June last year, she was labelled as an unprovoked perpetrator of domestic violence, which led to her losing her job, She won a US court case against Amber for losing her job after being labelled an unprovoked perpetrator of domestic violence. The winds have changed and she is now set to appear in a live-action film for the first time in three years in the French film Jeanne du Barry.
However, things have not gone so well, with protests against the selection of Jeanne du Barry as the opening film at Cannes. At the press conference, he was asked, “Do you still feel like you’re being boycotted by Hollywood?” Johnny replied, “No, not at all. But I don’t feel like I’m being boycotted because I don’t think about Hollywood any more. I don’t feel any more need for Hollywood. I don’t know anything about you [Hollywood],’ he replied. ‘It’s a very strange time. Everyone wants to be themselves, but they can’t because they have to behave like everyone else around them. If you want to follow the people around you, be my guest. I’m going to be on the different side,’ he continued matter-of-factly.
‘Most of what you’ve read about me and my life in the last five or six years is horribly written fiction. We’re here to talk about this film, so ‘How are you getting on?’ but behind it is a hidden voice saying, ‘Oh, I hate you’. That’s the media,” he said, expressing his distrust of the media, albeit in an equally casual manner.
At the official screening of Jeanne du Barry the previous day, Johnny was given a seven-minute standing ovation, with tears in his eyes, but he is not convinced that the film is a “comeback” film.
I keep thinking about the word ‘comeback’,” he says. I keep thinking about the word ‘comeback’ because I didn’t go anywhere. In fact, I live about 45 minutes from here. Maybe at the time people stopped calling me out of fear or something, but I didn’t go anywhere. I’ve always been here. From Johnny’s words and his narrative at the conference, it seemed that he had gained little benefit from the court victory.
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