Actor Johnny Depp participated in a press conference the day after his movie Jeanne du Barry premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night. He discussed his hiatus from Hollywood during the previous several years. The actor and his ex-wife Amber Heard were embroiled in a number of court cases, including a slander case that the actor ultimately won. Johnny commented on the topic of being shunned by Hollywood and noted that the majority of the articles written about him were “horribly written fiction.”
The actor had not appeared in public for four years prior to this. In the final installment of the Fantastic Beasts television series, Mads Mikkelsen took Johnny Depp’s place, who had been fired from the project. In 2020, the actor’s final movie, Minamata, came out.
The actor answered a journalist’s query after appearing late to the Jeanne du Barry press conference. He said: “Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood? You’d have to not have a pulse to feel like, ‘No. None of this is happening. It’s a weird joke.’ When you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing because of something that is merely a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted.”
He continued, “I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood. It’s a strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves, but they can’t. They must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best. The majority of what you read is fantastically, horrifically written fiction. It’s like asking the question, ‘How are you doing?’ But the subtext is, ‘God, I hate you’.”
Mawenn’s French film Jeanne du Barry, which stars Johnny as King Louis XV and the director in the main role. The cast also includes Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Benjamin Lavernhe, Noémie Lvovsky, Pascal Greggory, and Benjamin Lavernhe.
Johnny just revealed that he would be helming Modi, a biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, his second movie. Al Pacino, French actor Pierre Niney, and Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio all appear in the movie.
