I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Viral Thread About Johnny Depp
The same day Netflix announced a new deal with Depp, a Twitter thread laying bare his many sordid exploits went viral.
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In a time when the number of streaming services seems to increase by the day, it’s convenient when one of them makes a business decision so egregious that my moral compass—and my wallet—cannot possibly ignore it. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Netflix acquired the rights to stream Johnny Depp’s upcoming film, La Favorite. The film will be Depp’s first feature role since his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Fortunately, mere hours later, a Twitter thread went viral, reminding the internet just how disastrous Depp’s choices have been.
Penned by popular cyber-sleuth Kamilla, the thread catalogues Depp’s most bizarre and baleful incidents—and has receipts.
It begins with an article that details how Depp once went on a mission with good pal Marilyn Manson to purchase the gun that Hitler killed himself with. Just bois being besties! If you think it can’t get any more sordid than that, strap in. The following three tweets note after Depp’s role in the 2013 film, The Lone Ranger, in which he played Tonto, he was the subject of backlash from Native leaders and Indigenous activists. In an attempt to counter their justifiable opposition, Depp claimed that he actually had Native ancestry and even offered to purchase the site of Wounded Knee and return it to the Sioux. Though the land cost a fraction of his salary for the film, he never followed through. Court watchers may also remember that in text messages, Depp referred to himself as an, “angry aggro injun.” To be clear, there is no proof that he has any Native ancestry.
You know what they say, where there’s thinly veiled racism, a fetishization of Indigenous culture, and an interest in Hitler, there’s also an apologist for sexual predators. The thread goes on to show Depp defending Roman Polanski, a noted pedophile and rapist, and perhaps more shockingly, court documents in which he defends the 23-year-old man living with his then-15-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, in a statutory rape claim. In 2012, he also wrote a lionizing profile of Harvey Weinstein for Time that included the sentence: “He can be your most frightening nightmare and your closest friend.” You don’t say!