The fallen American star is preparing to open the Cannes Film Festival, is preparing a film with Pierre Niney and Al Pacino and has just signed a lucrative contract with Dior.
The unexpected announcement caused a sensation this weekend: Johnny Depp, an American star who is said to have been deposed because of his legal setbacks and his unstable behavior, has just signed a juicy 20 million dollar contract in order to continue its partnership with Dior Sauvage perfume for another three years.
As the specialist journal reminds us The Hollywood Reporter, Dior had refused to let go of Johnny Depp despite the numerous accusations of domestic violence against him. The prestigious house had also reaffirmed its support for the actor last September, three months after his victory during his trial against Amber Heard.
“Intense and authentic, Johnny Depp embodies the intoxicating magic of Sauvage,” Dior said at the time, before adding in another message: “More than ever, Johnny Depp is the soul of Sauvage.” According The Hollywood Reporterthe deal between Dior and Depp would be the most lucrative in history between a star and a perfume brand.
“Bazarde Depp”
In one year, the 59-year-old actor, who was fired from the franchises Pirates of the Caribbean et Fantastic Beasts because of his escapades, rose to the top of the bill. Invited to music festivals last summer to play with his friend Jeff Beck, he received a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian festival in Spain.
The opportunity for him to defend his career, and to denounce “this culture of erasure (“cancel culture”)” of which he feels victim: “this tendency to rush to a hasty judgment based essentially on what is ‘resembling exhaled polluted air’.
“The various movements that have emerged, I am sure with the best intentions, are however now so out of control that I can tell you that no one is immune,” he continued.
A short appearance in the stride of the actor during Rihanna’s Savage Fenty fashion show also caused controversy. Many of his fans criticized the decision with the hashtag #DitchDepp (“bazaar Depp”), recalling that Rihanna had been the victim of the blows of her ex-companion Chris Brown in 2009.
Olly Alexander, singer of the British group Years and Years and former ambassador of the brand, disassociated himself from it by declaring that he would “no longer wear” the clothes designed by the singer.
“With him, it was so obvious”
Johnny Depp has since been chosen to play Louis XV in Jeanne du Barry, which comes out this Wednesday. “With him, it was so obvious,” director Maïwenn told AFP. “The film was shot last summer, it was coming out of its second trial. I was full of worries, I said to myself: what will become of its image?”
It is this film that Thierry Frémaux, the general director of the Cannes festival, chose to open the 76th edition this Wednesday. Johnny Depp will thus be on the red carpet of the biggest cinematographic event of the year, in the center of all eyes, and machine-gunned by hundreds of paparazzi.
Soon a biopic of Modigliani
Johnny Depp is also actively preparing a new film as a director: a biopic of Modigliani with Pierre Niney, Al Pacino and Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick 2), which he will shoot in the fall in Budapest, Hungary. This film will recount the stay in Paris in 1916 of the famous painter and sculptor Modigliani.
Very happy with this project, Depp did not hide the similarities between his life and that of the famous Italian painter: “His life was filled with great trials, but ended in triumph – a universal human story to which all spectators can identify with,” he told the Hollywood Reporter.
The proliferation of projects by the ex-Hollywood star is denounced on social networks as his ex-wife Amber Heard left Hollywood to live away from the spotlight and escape the many trolls who have threatened her since she spoke. . She has now settled in Spain, where she lives incognito.
