Johnny Depp says we're living in a 'strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves, but they can’t.'
made a rare public appearance at the Cannes press conference for “Jeanne du Barry,” a costume drama that opened the 76th film festival. The movie, in which he plays King Louis XV, marks the actor’s first leading role in three years, following his high-profile legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard. As he reemerged into the limelight, Depp appeared to have mixed feelings about his years-long absence from Hollywood films.
Depp was presumably referring to a sequel to the “Harry Potter” spinoff series “Fantastic Beasts,” which he stepped away from in 2020. By exiting the Warner Bros. film amid PR headaches, the A-list star responsible for more than $10 billion in worldwide box office gave up an eight-figure salary. Though Heard’s name was never directly mentioned at the press conference, his legal battle with her continued to crop up. When asked by areporter what he would say to those who think he should not attend Cannes due to his past legal issues, Depp said, “What if one day they did not allow me — under no circumstances, no matter what — [that] I cannot go to McDonald’s for life because somewhere if you got them all in one room it’d be 39 angry people watching me eat a Big Mac on a loop just for fun.
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