Johnny Depp declared Wednesday that he has no “further need” for Hollywood.
Depp, 59, made the declaration at the Cannes Film Festival a day after the premiere of the French film Jeanne du Barry, which sees Depp star as King Louis XV, according to a report.
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The project is the actor’s first film in three years, and it comes a year after a jury largely sided with him in a brutal legal battle with Amber Heard, his ex-wife.
At the end of that battle, during which Depp had argued he lost work in Hollywood due to his ex’s allegation, Depp was awarded $10 million and forced to pay Heard $2 million.
“Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood? You’d have to not have a pulse to feel like, ‘No. None of this is happening. It’s a weird joke,'” Depp said, addressing the press at Cannes. “When you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing because of something that is merely a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted.”
“I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much further need for Hollywood, myself,” he added. “It’s a strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves, but they can’t. They must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best.”
The press conference for Jeanne du Barry was akin to a circus, the report noted, starting late and seeing Depp arrive 20 minutes after that.
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Along with declaring his sentiments toward Hollywood, Depp noted that much of what has been written about him in the press is “fantastically, horrifically written fiction.”
“It’s like asking the question, ‘How are you doing?’ But the subtext is, ‘God, I hate you,'” he said.
