The Cannes Film Festival red carpet came alive with the premiere of Louis XV period drama “Jean du Barry” starring Johnny Depp as the French Riviera Movie Pageant kicked off a star-studded and potentially controversial 76th edition. launched. The film marks the actor’s first leading role in three years following his high-profile legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard. The stellar comeback actor received a seven-minute standing ovation for his performance. Depp held back his tears. Audiences in the south of France appreciated his portrayal as King Louis XV. As he returns to the spotlight, Depp appears to have mixed feelings about his absence from Hollywood films, adds ‘Variety’.
Depp told the media on Wednesday, “Did I feel Hollywood boycott me? You don’t have to have your pulse to feel like, ‘No. Nothing’s happening. It’s a funny joke.'” “When you’re asked to resign for a film you’re doing that’s just a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, then yes, you feel left out.”
Depp was likely referring to the sequel to the “Harry Potter” spinoff series “Fantastic Beasts,” which he had to drop out in 2020. With Warner Bros. backing out of the film amid PR headaches, the A-list star will earn more than $10 million. Billion in worldwide box office receipts paid eight figures, notes ‘Variety’.
He then continued, “I don’t feel excluded by Hollywood, because I don’t think about Hollywood. It’s a weird, weird time where everyone would love to be themselves, but they can’t. They have to fall in front of them.” Line with the person. If you want to live that life, I wish you luck.
Earlier in the press conference, Variety added, Depp also talked about his disdain for the media, which intensely covered his trials with The Heard and Fallout From Hollywood. “Most of what you read is fantastically, horribly written fiction. It’s like asking the question: ‘How are you?’ But the subtext is, ‘God, I hate you’.”
(With inputs from IANS)
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