Johnny Depp was met with a standing ovation as he arrived for the premiere of his first movie since being blackballed from Hollywood, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
In a shocking growth to return almost one 12 months after Depp received his $15 million defamation lawsuit towards ex-wife Amber Heard, the 59-year-old actor arrived on the Cannes Movie Competition on Tuesday to attend the premiere of Jeanne du Barry.
However whereas the Cannes viewers and Depp’s followers appeared delighted to witness the actor’s official return to Hollywood after his defamation trial towards Heard final 12 months, the Pirates of the Caribbean star got here below recent hearth from quite a lot of people protesting his attendance on the movie pageant.
“The movie you’re about to see – Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry – incorporates scenes that includes Johnny Depp, who’s concerned in confirmed acts of violence towards his former spouse Amber Heard,” quite a lot of flyers being handed out on the pageant allegedly learn, based on Web page Six.
In the meantime, Heard’s shut pal Eve Barlow launched a marketing campaign on Instagram forward of Depp’s premiere on Tuesday through which she slammed the French movie pageant for “supporting” the Blow actor and different embattled actors and administrators.
“Cannes appear pleased with their historical past supporting rapists and abusers,” Barlow wrote in a single Instagram submit. “Plus ça change.”
“For those who assist Cannes you assist predators,” learn a second submit. Two extra learn: “Jeanne du Barry Representing Abusers at Cannes” and “Cannes Movie Competition: Celebrating Abusers for 76 Years.”
Cannes Director Thierry Fremaux defended the choice to launch this 12 months’s pageant with the movie through which Depp portrays Louis XV, saying that Depp is “extraordinary” within the image and he paid “no consideration” to the Unbelievable Beats actor’s defamation trial towards Heard in Might and June 2022.
“To inform you the reality, in my life, I solely have one rule, it’s the liberty of pondering, the liberty of speech and the liberty to behave inside a authorized framework,” Fremaux mentioned on Monday.
“If Johnny Depp had been banned from appearing in a movie, or the movie was banned we wouldn’t be right here speaking about it,” the Cannes director continued. “If there’s one particular person on this world who didn’t discover the least curiosity on this very publicized trial, it’s me.”