He doesn’t Depp-end on Hollywood.
Johnny Depp, 59, slammed Hollywood Wednesday while at a Cannes Film Festival press conference over questions about whether the industry “boycotted” him, reports Deadline.
“Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood,” said Depp repeating the reporter’s question after being half an hour late to the panel and citing traffic issues for his delay.
“You’d have to not have a pulse to not feel that, of course, when you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing for something that is merely just a bunch of vowels and consonants in the air,” continued the actor. “Do I feel boycotted now? No, I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood, because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much use for Hollywood, do you?”
“It’s a strange, funny time when people feel like they can’t be themselves; they must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best, I’ll see you on the other side.”
The Post reached out to Depp for comment.
Depp’s fiery rhetoric comes a day after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star was seen getting misty-eyed during a seven-minute standing ovation during the screening of his new film “Jeanne Du Barry.”
Depp, who won the highly-publicized defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, claimed that everything that the media had written about him during that time was a work of fiction.
“Everything the majority of you have been reading for the past five or six years regarding my life is fantastically, horrifically written fiction,” slammed Depp. “It’s like asking the question ‘How are you doing?’ but the subtext is ‘God, I hate you.’”
The film’s director and star, Maïwenn — who was charged with assaulting a journalist after allegedly spitting on him — attempted to get the panel back on track by saying that the 59-year-old actor had a penchant for choosing the right music for every scene, however, the press was not easily distracted.
“What would you say to those who thought you shouldn’t be in Cannes,” asked one member of the press.
“What if someone said I can’t go to McDonald’s for life because somewhere 35 people are watching me eat a Big Mac on a loop,” snapped Depp. “Some species, some tower of mashed potatoes, cowering behind a computer screen? Anonymous? … I don’t think I’m the one who should be worried.”
When asked about the film being called his comeback after a three-year hiatus, Depp wasn’t amused.
#JohnnyDepp says he was boycotted by Hollywood, but he is concentrating on his career outside of 'Tinseltown' at the #JeanneDuBarry Press Conference at #Cannes2023
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 17, 2023
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“They’re using it as a kind of catchphrase. ‘The guy’s making a comeback.’ I’ve had about 17 comebacks, and I don’t understand it because I didn’t go anywhere. I live about 45 minutes from here,” chastised the “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” actor.
“Maybe people stopped calling out of whatever their fear was at the time — but I didn’t go nowhere … ‘comeback’ is almost like I’m going to come out and do a tap dance — dance my best and hope you approve. That’s the notion. It’s a bizarre mystery.”
At that point, Depp tried to return the panel’s focus back to the film by saying in order to prepare for the role of King Louis XV, he had “to figure out a way that the viewer can forget who you are and all the baggage you carry in the first three minutes of the film.”
Depp’s presence at the festival caused quite a stir among various supporters of his ex-wife who slammed the festival for “supporting rapists and abusers.”
Fans of the actor also seemed to be repulsed by the star’s “rotting” teeth calling them “disgusting.”