In Cannes, the suspense is not only on the screen. The journalists present at the press conference of Jeanne du Barry by Maïwenn, presented yesterday at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, awaited Johnny Depp. Absent from the photocall, he ended up arriving late in the middle of the conference and answered in a slightly pasty voice but rather frankly to the questions asked calmly
“This film is not a comeback, he says because I never left even if the telephone rings less. I would have had to be in a coma not to notice that I was being boycotted in Hollywood. I don’t notice it anymore because I don’t think about Hollywood anymore. “Smiling, the actor relaxed gently going so far as to make a few blagounettes as to say that he had spoken sustained French on the film. “I couldn’t use expressions like ‘have your ass lined with noodles’ to impersonate the king. »
After climbing the stairs, Johnny Depp did not stay in the room during the screening of Jeanne du Barry, which does not prevent him from defending the film. “My partners have told me good things about it and I trust them. He acknowledged, however, that people are not always very benevolent. “There are people who want to believe what they want to believe, but the truth is the truth. When I read, for five or six years, comments on my life, I have the impression of reading a marvelously horrifying fiction. It’s hard today to live your life in your own way and I wish good luck to whoever tries it: he will get knocked out. Which did not prevent Johnny Depp from having to flee a flood of enthusiastic fans at the exit of the press conference. “King Louis XV must have had several personalities at court,” he comments. Isn’t that a good definition of acting?
The actor also did not dodge questions about the controversy that his presence in Cannes is causing. “One day I may be banned from going to McDo and I will eat my hamburger in front of 39 people who will be angry,” he jokes. Maïwenn then flew to the aid of the actor. “I don’t read the newspapers, I don’t listen to the radio and I don’t watch television,” she insists. I don’t know if he says bad things to each other. What matters is that the film was released yesterday and it works, I’m happy. Johnny Depp can now go home. “I don’t live far away and I’m happy to see that Cannes hasn’t changed. They are no longer the same faces but it is always the same way of celebrating cinema and the miracle of managing to make a film. It may not be a comeback, but Johnny Depp is back.