Johnny Depp says he doesn’t feel interrupted by Hollywood – Deadline

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Humble and defensive, Johnny Depp spoke at the Cannes press conference this morning for the festival’s opening evening film Jane du Barry. Not only was he moved to a standing ovation at the Grand Theater Lumière, but he also referred to the aftermath of Amber Heard’s trial titles (without referring to it), exclaiming, “As far as I and my life are concerned, the majority of what I’ve read is hideously written fiction.”

asked before Delivery time Whether he still feels interrupted by Hollywood, sentiments he expressed in an interview with The Sunday Times in August 2021, the 3-time Academy Award nominee replied,

Did you feel interrupted by Hollywood? Well, you shouldn’t have a pulse to feel at this point, “None of this is happening, it’s just some weird joke or I’ve been sleeping for 35 years.” Of course, when you’re asked to quit a movie you’re doing, it’s because Something is just a bunch of vowels and consonants floating in the air, you feel interrupted,” he said.

“Do I feel interrupted now? Not at all. I don’t feel interrupted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood. I have no more need for Hollywood myself.” “I think it’s a very strange and funny time where everybody wants to be themselves, but they can’t, they have to stick in line, get along, and if you want to live this life, I’m going to be on the other side.”

Jane du Barry It’s been billed as the actor’s comeback to the big screen after a three-year hiatus, as he battles ex-wife Amber Heard in the courts, winning a defamation trial against her last summer.

But Depp defied the “comeback” streak.

They use it as a kind of catchphrase. ‘The man makes comebacks.’ By the way, I’ve had about 17 comebacks, apparently.

He continued, “I keep wondering about the word ‘back’ because I haven’t been anywhere.” Actually, I live about 45 minutes away, yeah. Maybe, maybe people just stopped calling. I don’t know what their fear was at that time. I did not go anywhere. I was sitting. So ‘coming back’ is almost like I’m going to go out and do a tap dance or something.”

When a reporter asked him how he felt about the controversy surrounding his presence in Cannes, specifically those who didn’t want him here for the 76th, Depp replied, “What if they told me, ‘I can’t go to McDonald’s for life because somewhere if I’ve I put them all together in one room, 39 people are watching me eat a Big Mac on a loop. Who are those? Why do they care? Some kind or a tower of mashed potatoes covered in light from a computer screen? Anonymous.”

in Jane du Barry, Depp plays Louis XV while director Méwen plays his new lover, Countess Jeanne du Barry.

The actor discussed Maïwenn’s bravado in casting a non-French actor to play King Louis. The director mentioned that she had already gone to some French actors who died, but that she found Depp an anomaly, not only because of his period of residence in France, but also because of his deep knowledge of politics, art and cinema in the country. “He knew more about Louis VX than I did,” the director admitted.

Depp said, “I was so surprised that I was chosen for this role. Yeah, I thought someone had made a huge mistake.”

The actor said “Maybe you want to try on a Frenchman as King Louis, I thought about it for a second. I thought about it for a second. It was brave of her to pick some hillbilly from Kentucky…”

Depp later said that one of his biggest goals for the role of Louis XV was in a way that would make audiences forget it was him on the big screen.

“You have to figure out a way for the viewer to forget who you are, all the baggage you carry… That was my biggest hope that the viewer would forget who was in front of them,” said the actor.

Off-screen who played the rebellious title character, Maïwenn, admitted in a recent television interview to assaulting Mediapart editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel necessitating pulling his hair and spitting on him in a Parisian restaurant.

“She’s an outspoken #MeToo opponent and she made the gesture to appease her world, which is why she bragged about it on TV. We can see a kind of pride echoing that world,” Plenel lashed out about Maïwenn lately. diverse Interview about the quarrel.