• Johnny Depp arrived late to Jeanne du Barry's press conference.
  • He answered frankly the questions put to him, even the most delicate ones.
  • He was also greeted by a flood of fans.

In Cannes, the suspense is not only on the screen. The journalists present at the press conference of Jeanne du Barry de Maïwenn, presented yesterday at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, were waiting for Johnny Depp. Absent from the photocall, he ended up arriving late in the middle of the conference and answered in a slightly pasty voice but rather frankly to the questions asked calmly.

"This movie is not a comeback," he says, "because I never left even though the phone rings less. I would have had to be in a coma not to notice that I was boycotted in Hollywood. I don't notice it anymore because I don't think about Hollywood anymore. Smiling, the actor relaxed softly, going so far as to make a few jokes like saying that he had spoken sustained French on the film. "I couldn't use phrases like 'having my ass lined with noodles' to embody the king."

Johnny Depp did not stay in the room the time of the screening of Jeanne du Barry this Tuesday night, which does not prevent him from defending him. "My partners have told me good things about it and I trust them." He acknowledged, however, that people are not always very benevolent. "There are people who want to believe what they want to believe, but the truth is the truth. When I have been reading comments about my life for the past five or six years, I feel like I am reading horrible fiction. It is hard today to live your life in your own way and I wish good luck to those who try it: he will be crushed. This did not prevent Johnny Depp from having to flee a flood of enthusiastic fans at the end of the press conference. "King Louis XV must have had several personalities at court," he said. Isn't that a nice definition of acting?

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The actor also did not dodge questions about the controversy caused by his presence in Cannes. "One day I might be banned from going to McDonald's and I'll eat my burger in front of 39 people who will be angry about it," he jokes. Maïween then flew to the actor's rescue. "I don't read newspapers, I don't listen to the radio and I don't watch television," she says. I don't know if he says things that are not nice. What matters is that the film was released yesterday and it works, I'm happy. Johnny Depp can now go home. "I don't live far away and I'm happy to see that Cannes hasn't changed. They are no longer the same faces but it is still the same way to celebrate cinema and the miracle of managing to make a film. It may not be a comeback but Johnny Depp is back.

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