6 h 23 août 2021 ans - THE NEW DAILY Once upon a time in Hollywood, Johnny Depp was royalty. Can he make a comeback with new movie?

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Once upon a time in Hollywood, Johnny Depp was royalty. Can he make a comeback with new movie?

by Louise Talbot

Wearing his trademark swag of costume jewellery and layers of well-worn ruffled clothes, Johnny Depp was somewhat relaxed and smiling as he fronted a media call for his latest film in Spain.

He was there as part of an ongoing publicity tour for Minamata, a film where Depp plays real-life US photojournalist W Eugene Smith.

Still much loved in the court of public opinion, Depp, 58, fronts up later this week to present the widely acclaimed film, which he also produced, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic – the most prestigious festival in central and eastern Europe.

Despite MGM picking up the film last year, it has not yet been released in the US, his home country, and has instead premiered at film festivals everywhere else.

Director Andrew Levitas accused MGM of “burying” the film and wrote a letter of complaint to the studio giant.

“Despite an already successful global rollout, MGM had decided to “bury the film” (acquisitions head Sam Wollman’s words) because MGM was concerned about the possibility that the personal issues of an actor in the film could reflect negatively upon them,” reads the letter obtained by Deadline.

Depp told The Sunday Times on August 14: “For Hollywood’s boycott of, erm, me? One man, one actor in an unpleasant and messy situation, over the last number of years?”

“But, you know, I’m moving towards where I need to go to make all that … To bring things to light,” he said.

‘Grottiest showbiz trial of the century’

Depp, once considered Hollywood royalty as Edward Scissorhands and later as loveable Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, has been out of the spotlight since court proceedings involving his ex-wife, Aquaman actor Amber Heard, 34, took centre stage.

In November 2020, London High Court judge Andrew Nicol ruled against Depp after he brought a libel case against The Sun newspaper over a 2018 article in which he was accused of being a “wife beater”.

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Well, the film festival world is noticing Depp, with the San Sebastian Film Festival announcing he is the recipient of the coveted Donostia Award, which “recognises outstanding contributions to the film world of great names who will be part of cinema history forever”.

As The Times noted: “Some people are just too famous to fail”.

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