Johnny Depp doesn't really feel boycotted by Hollywood anymore however says he doesn't 'have a lot additional want for' the business both

• Johnny Depp says he does not really feel boycotted by Hollywood.
• “I do not take into consideration Hollywood,” he stated on the Cannes Movie Pageant. “I do not want Hollywood.”
• His film, “Jeanne du Barry,” obtained a seven-minute standing ovation after it performed on the opening night time of the fest.

Johnny Depp was in a defiant temper on Wednesday as he addressed the media in the course of the press convention for his film “Jeanne du Barry,” which was the opening-night movie on the Cannes Movie Pageant.

Displaying up 27 minutes late to talk to the press, as he was caught in site visitors, Depp confirmed up saying that he was there to talk about the film, not his private life. However he shortly discovered himself doing simply that.

“Did I really feel boycotted by Hollywood? You’d need to not have a pulse to really feel like, ‘No, none of that is occurring,'” he stated whereas answering a query requested by Deadline, including, “After all while you’re requested to resign from a movie you are doing due to one thing that’s merely a bunch of vowels and consonants floating within the air, yeah you are feeling a bit boycotted.”

Depp was referring to his exit from the film “Unbelievable Beasts: The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore” in November 2020 days after he misplaced his libel swimsuit towards the UK newspaper The Solar, which referred to him as a “wife-beater.”

“I do not really feel boycotted by Hollywood,” Depp added of how he feels now. “I do not take into consideration Hollywood. I haven’t got a lot additional want for Hollywood myself.”

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Earlier on in the course of the press convention, Depp additionally expressed his contempt for the press, who diligently coated his libel swimsuit towards The Solar and his defamation trial towards ex-wife Amber Heard during which each events have been discovered chargeable for defaming one another.

“With reference to me and my life, nearly all of what you’ve got learn is fantastically horrifically written fiction,” he stated. “It is like asking the query: ‘How are you doing?’ However the subtext is, ‘God, I hate you.'”

Since Depp’s extremely publicized trial final June, the actor has been within the midst of a comeback. (Though he would additionally dismiss this narrative: “I’ve had my seventeenth comeback, apparently,” he stated at Cannes per Selection. “I preserve questioning in regards to the phrase ‘comeback.’ I did not go anyplace.”)

“Jeanne du Barry” marks the actor’s first main function in years. Earlier than Cannes kicked off, it was reported that the three-time Oscar nominee had landed a $20 million take care of Dior, which is the biggest contract ever for a males’s perfume.

“Jeanne du Barry,” during which Depp performs French king Louis XV, was met with a seven-minute standing ovation after it screened at Cannes on Tuesday. (It at present has no American distribution.)

“The applause and the response from the viewers, the vitality of the response appeared to go on and on,” Depp stated of the reception to the film, in line with Selection. “I used to be very proud.”