The audience at Cannes gave Johnny Depp’s film a standing ovation that lasted for minutes. Johnny Depp’s eyes welled up with tears on Tuesday at the positive reception that his picture received at the Cannes Picture Festival.
A video uploaded to social media by Variety shows Johnny Depp being visibly upset while receiving a standing ovation that lasts more than five minutes for his performance in the movie “Jeanne du Barry,” in which he plays Louis XV, the former King of France.
It was the actor’s first film endeavor since the summer of last year when he was involved in a defamation trial with his ex-wife Amber Heard. In the litigation they brought against one another, the jury ruled that they were both responsible for slander, although they awarded much greater damages to Depp.
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During the press conference for the film in Cannes, Johnny Depp spoke about “abstract whispers.” He also stated, “Most of what you have been reading in the last four or five years… about me and my life, what you’ve read is fantastically, horribly written fiction.”
“The focus should simply be on that fact it’s a miracle to get a film made that you care about in the first place,” he added. “The focus should be on the fact that it’s a miracle to get a film made that you care about.” “You win the point right there.”
According to Variety, Johnny Depp has also been quoted as saying, “I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood.”
The biography “Jeanne du Barry” recounts the life of Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, also known as Madame du Barry. She was King Louis XV’s mistress and the biography’s subject.
In an interview with Deadline in April, the head of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, discussed the choice to kick off the event with the Depp movie and called it “a beautiful film.”
Because we want France to participate in the festival, we don’t schedule platform films in the opening picture’s time slot, as Frémaux explained. “The opening film also has to come out simultaneously in French cinemas,” Frémaux stated. “The movie is a success, and Johnny Depp [in his role as Louis XV] is magnificent in it,” said critic Roger Ebert.
