WASHINGTON, May 3 — Johnny Depp was to have been paid US$22.5 million (RM97.9 million) for a sixth Pirates of the Caribbean movie but the project was scrapped by Disney after his ex-wife Amber Heard accused him of domestic abuse in a Washington Post op-ed, the actor’s agent said Monday. Jack...
WASHINGTON, May 3 — Johnny Depp was to have been paid US$22.5 million for a sixthmovie but the project was scrapped by Disney after his ex-wife Amber Heard accused him of domestic abuse in aJack Whigham, testifying on behalf of Depp at the celebrity couple’s high-profile defamation trial in Virginia, said the Post op-ed was “catastrophic” for Depp’s Hollywood career.
Whigham, who has been Depp’s agent since 2016, said that a deal had been reached with Disney for the actor to appear as Captain Jack Sparrow in a sixth installment of the lucrativeBut Disney decided to go in a “different direction” following the December 2018 publication of the op-ed in the“I successfully made contact with them, but I was not successful in rescuing Pirates for Johnny,” he said.in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.
Depp has denied ever being physically abusive towards Heard and has claimed at the trial that she was the one who was frequently violent.
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