Johnny Depp, Alleged Abuser, Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes: ‘I Don’t Feel Boycotted’
I guess when you're an actor, director, model, and artiste, people forget you're also an alleged abuser.
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Has anyone ever received a warmer welcome at the Cannes Film Festival than men who’ve been accused of abuse? Roman Polanski, Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, Gerard Depardieu, and Luc Besson have all been greeted with a suspiciously enthusiastic oui oui in the event’s 76-year history. Now, it seems Johnny Depp has officially joined le creep coterie.
Not only did Depp’s new film, Jeanne du Barry—his first since his 2022 defamation trial—kick off the famed festival, but it also received a reported seven-minute standing ovation after it premiered on Tuesday. Granted, some… not-great films garnered similar reactions at the Venice Film Festival, but apparently, the praise was enough to make Depp shed a little tear (I know this only because I was forcibly subjected to the information given all eyes—and cameras—seem trained on him). However, he claimed he didn’t care all about the hullabaloo.
“I never went anywhere,” he responded to a question about his “comeback” during a press conference for the film. “People have seen or heard the word comeback exchanged by folks and using that as a catchphrase. ‘He’s making a comeback,’ or ‘He’s made a comeback.’”
“I keep wondering about the word comeback because I didn’t go anywhere. As a matter of fact, I live about 45 minutes away,” Depp quipped. “So yeah, maybe people stopped calling out of whatever their fear was at the time. But no, I didn’t go nowhere. I’ve been sitting around.”