Johnny Depp fans are already streaming the video clips on social media. The 59-year-old American star was interviewed on Wednesday at a press conference for the film Jeanne du Barry about her rocky career. And on what the American journalist who questioned him called a “comeback”.
“It’s curious to use this term comeback term, quite cliché (…) Apparently, I had seventeen comebacks. I ponder this word. In fact, I wasn’t standing that far… Some people stopped calling me, for whatever reason, maybe out of fear, but I was always there. So the word is out of place, ”replies the actor, who speaks with particular slowness. But don’t bother with these questions.
“People want to believe what they want to believe, but the truth is the truth. (…) During the last five, six years, the majority of what you have read is horrible fiction, ”says Johnny Depp, referring to his media lawsuits against his former wife Amber Heard. Does he still feel boycotted by Hollywood? “I don’t have the feeling of being boycotted, and then I don’t think of Hollywood at all, I don’t care. I don’t need Hollywood. We live in strange, curious times. Everyone would like to be themselves, but no one can, because everyone conforms to those who face them”. These remarks do not shine by their clarity.
A little earlier, when Jeanne du Barry’s Louis XV had not yet arrived, Maïwenn had explained her choice of casting. “Before going to see Johnny, I proposed to actors that I adored. It didn’t happen. So I wanted to be loyal to my desire. Especially since I was playing in it and was going to kiss it, I preferred a sexy actor. The director also multiplied the praise for the “erudition” of Johnny Depp who, it seems, knew more than she about the personality of the monarch.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor initially thought it was a “mistake” when he received this casting offer. “It’s an act of courage on Maïwenn’s part to ask someone from the depths of Kentucky to play Louis XV. At the start, I wondered if I was going to be up to it, if I wasn’t going to take someone else’s place. But I’m glad she insisted, ”continues Johnny Depp, having fun with the elocution lessons he had to receive to work on his French. But Benjamin Lavernhe, who plays his valet in the feature film, assures that Johnny Depp quickly caught the royal “R”. Looks royal, then.
