Boycott? Did you say boycott? In any case, it doesn't seem to affect Johnny Depp that much. The press says he was blacklisted by Hollywood after losing his two defamation lawsuits, one against the Sun in the UK in 2020 and the other against Amber Heard in the US in 2022, where they were both convicted.

On the poster of Jeanne du Barry, with and directed by Maïwenn, the actor has just opened the 76th Cannes Film Festival with this film. And clearly, if American studios no longer want him, the reverse seems true. "If I felt boycotted by Hollywood? I'd have to be in a coma to think, "No, none of this happens. It's a funny joke." When you are asked to resign from a film that you are making because of something that is only vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted, "he began, referring to the filming of Fantastic Beasts that he left on the orders of Warner.

"I don't think about Hollywood"

A fact that does not reach him in the least. "I don't feel boycotted by Hollywood, because I don't think about Hollywood," he said, bravache. He describes cinema on the other side of the Atlantic as a universe where "everyone would love to be themselves, but no one can. They have to adapt to the person in front of them." "If you want to live this life, I wish you good luck," concludes the man who now lives in the English countryside.

Standing ovation and palpable discomfort

And Cannes, in all this? Obviously, no boycott since the pirate Jack Sparrow did not need to storm the festival to glean cheers and vivas! A seven-minute standing ovation brought tears to the star's eyes after the film's premiere.

His climb of the steps, with Maïwenn and the team of the feature film, had also aroused applause. The actor also keeps his juicy contract with Dior and has several important film projects in his double bag of director and actor. Yet the unease about Johnny Depp was palpable in France too. The association Osez le féminisme had protested by publishing a statement entitled "Cannes Film Festival: no honor for the aggressors" which called for a boycott of the festival. A platform of actresses and actors in Libération went in the same direction. But cancel culture operates less well on this side of the Atlantic.

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