In the upcoming film “Jeanne Du Barry” Johnny Depp is on the cast, and will play the French King Louis XV, reports Screen Daily.
The film will be released in Cannes later this month. The plot of the film is set in France and is about the woman Jeanne Bècu who was born into poverty, but rose in the ranks until King Louis XV became her lover.
It will be Depp’s first film since “Minamata” which came out in 2019, and after this Depp has described himself as a victim of “Cancel culture”, writes Deadline.
Back in court: This is what they argue about
Defendant for $ 50 million
Depp is now in an intense legal drama against his ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp has sued Heard for defamation after the latter wrote a post in Washington Post in 2018, where she wrote, among other things:
“Two years ago, I became a public symbol of domestic abuse, and I felt the power of our culture’s anger toward women,” Heard wrote.
Confronted with shocking messages
Depp is not mentioned in the commentary, but he still sued Heard for defamation and demands 50 million dollars in compensation.
Depp believed Heard’s column had gone beyond his career, and that the post had cost him several film roles, in addition to having damaged his reputation as a public figure.
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Dropped from movies
Depp has denied the accusations that he allegedly abused his wife, and has in turn accused Heard of, among other things, hitting him in the face during a flight, and that she allegedly threw several bottles of vodka at him, writes Sky News.
After Heard’s accusations were published, the British tabloid newspaper The Sun described Depp as a wife abuser. Depp sued The Sun, but lost both.
In the wake of losing one of the lawsuits, the film company Warner Bros. Depp about withdrawing from the movie “Fantastic Beasts 3”. In the two previous films, Depp had the role of the wizard Gellert Grindelwald.
Nor is it the only film role to have been lost to Depp.
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During the trial in Virginia, Johnny Depp’s agent, Jack Whigham, claimed that Depp would receive $ 22.5 million to star in the sixth film in the world-famous film series “Pirates of the Caribbean”, in which Depp stars as Captain Jack Sparrow, writes the industry website Variety.
But after Heard published the post in the Washington Post, Disney chose to drop Depp from the role. According to Whigham, it should have been impossible for Depp to get film roles after Heard’s post was published.
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Will kick Amber Heard
On Change.org a signature campaign has been created demanding that Amber Heard be fired from the upcoming film «Aquaman 2». So far, the campaign has received as many as 3.4 million signatures.
Change.org states, among other things, that Amber Heard has been exposed as an abuser in the home, and that she has worked to ruin Depp’s career in Hollywood, and made false accusations that he was an abuser.
– Do the right thing. Remove Amber Heard from “Aquaman 2,” it says in the campaign.
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