oct 2, 2018 - GQ MAGAZINE UK Johnny Depp Will Not Be Buried An Outlaw Talks. Interview By Jonathan Heaf

Description:

GQ Interview, Front Cover and Pictorial.
Johnny Depp will not be buried.

The Divorce, The Excess, the Violence and the Vengeance.

Johnny Depp talks and talks.

By Jonathan Heaf

Photographer: Greg Williams

Hollywood divorce: where acrimony meets alimony somewhere on the highest, most exposed precipice. And when those disputes are embittered further by costly lawsuits against once-trusted advisors and accusations of domestic violence, the truth – as presented by either side – will take the fall. We don’t know the truth. But following an invitation to spend time with the face of one multibillion-dollar franchise and a whole rogue’s gallery of tender, oddball tales at the French village he once bought to share with another former partner, we now know his version of it. Aggrieved, aggressive and vulnerable, by turns it’s all these things. He spoke, we listened and here is the truth Johnny Depp wants you to hear.

The death metal begins at 2.43pm. It’s loud. And it is coming from inside the church. The noise is a proud, ungovernable fury, like a prize bull being dragged to the slaughterhouse by its copper nose ring. The idyllic quiet of the southern French countryside, the soft rub of the cigales and the warm breeze rolling off the Mediterranean is torn down the spine by wailing, demonic vocals and pedal distortion. Everyone outside, some drinking small glasses of pastis de Marseille in the 37C heat, turn to look at the church door and then at one another.

Despite the rupture, the shattered tranquillity, it is a positive sign for those who want an audience with our host. The man rumoured to be sleeping inside the small, single-storey chapel – its original confessional area transformed into a closet, its cloister now used as an artist’s studio with large, unfinished canvases leaning against the perimeter – must surely be awake. No one could sleep through what sounds like Satan’s own alarm bell.

Two weeks ago there was an invitation, confirmed late yesterday, to come to Johnny Depp’s villa and talk openly and without caveats. If you rise at 5am in North London, get the first Nice-bound British Airways flight out of Heathrow around 7.45am and then take a taxi for an hour due east along the scorched yellow coast, past Cannes, past Fréjus and not quite to Saint-Tropez, you will find yourself in the rural town of Le Hameau De Gassin, hemmed in by rows of young, short vines, forming tracks like nature’s braids, their bruise-coloured fruit just beginning to swell and sag with new weight.

Depp’s complex of around seven or eight small stone abodes sits above this quiet, unremarkable old town, with a view that stretches out over the rippling Ligurian Sea. On a clear day you can walk out to one of the several high, rocky outcrops on the estate, squint and see the island of Corsica and, beyond that, waters rich with fables and myth, where scholars believe Homer’s Odysseus ordered his crew to tie him to his own mast to hear for himself the song of the Sirens.

[Full long interview available via the links provided below]


SOURCE:
UK Court Documents:
- UK Core Trial Bundle Item 184 & 186

US VA Court Documents:
- Amber Heard Exhibit 116, 915 & 1240

Added to timeline:

9 hours ago

23

0

122095

The Johnny Depp Chronology

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Complete Timeline

The Johnny De...

Date:

Images: