Johnny Depp is totally unrecognizable as King Louis XV, who he is taking part in within the upcoming French movie 'Jeanne du Barry.' Johnny began filming shortly after he received the Amber Heard defamation lawsuit.
Johnny Depp, 59, is again to engaged on films after successful the defamation lawsuit in opposition to his ex-wife Amber Heard, 36. Johnny, who hasn’t starred in a characteristic movie in roughly three years, is taking part in King Louis XV in French director Maïwenn‘s movie Jeanne du Barry. Why Not Productions shared the primary picture of Johnny in character because the late King of France on August 10. Johnny seems utterly unrecognizable within the picture, might be seen HERE.
Johnny has been filming his new challenge in Paris for the previous two months. In late June, he was pictured sporting his hair in braids after a dressing up and wig becoming on the set of the film. Jeanne du Barry, which will even star Maïwenn, remains to be in pre-production and doesn’t have a set launch date but. The outline for the movie says, “The lifetime of Jeanne Bécu who was born because the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise by the Courtroom of Louis XV to change into his final official mistress,” per IMDb. That is Johnny’s first film since 2019’s Ready for the Barbarians.
Not solely is Johnny performing once more, however he’s additionally planning a tour along with his band the Hollywood Vampires for subsequent summer time. These developments all occurred after Johnny received the highly-publicized defamation trial on June 1. The jury determined that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor was certainly defamed by his ex-wife, who claimed to be a sufferer of home abuse in an op-ed for The Washington Publish. Johnny was awarded $15M, whereas Amber received $2M in her countersuit in opposition to her former partner. Nevertheless, each actors have filed to attraction the authorized rulings that they misplaced. Amber additionally tried to have the whole case thrown out by mistrial, however that was denied on July 13.
Previous to the trial, Johnny was dropped from Disney’s Unbelievable Beasts franchise and changed by Mads Mikkelsen. This got here after he misplaced the libel case in opposition to The Solar in Nov. 2020 concerning allegations that he bodily abused Amber. Johnny has spoken out about how his profession has been affected by the drama with Amber, referring to “Hollywood’s boycott of, erm, me” in an August 2021 interview with The Sunday Instances. He additionally known as his profession setback an “absurdity of media arithmetic.”
However Johnny’s profession is again in enterprise after he received good favor with the world throughout his newest trial in opposition to Amber. Followers are even hoping he returns as Jack Sparrow for Pirates of the Caribbean 6, although he stated through the trial he’s not keen on doing that.