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Come once more? Brie Larson gave the impression to be flustered and stunned when she was requested to weigh in on Johnny Depp’s presence at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
“You’re asking me that?” Larson, 33, stated throughout a Tuesday, May 16, press conference in the South of France when requested how she feels about Depp’s mission, Jeanne Du Barry, opening the competition.
The actress, who can also be a Cannes juror, added: “I’m sorry, I don’t understand the correlation or why me specifically.”
The reporter then clarified that because the Captain Marvel star was a part of the Time’s Up advisory council, he was curious if she had any ideas on Depp, 59, being allowed kick off Cannes after his alleged previous violence towards ex-wife Amber Heard. (Depp sued Heard, 37, in 2019 for defamation after she known as herself a sufferer of home violence in an op-ed for The Washington Post. A jury dominated in his favor in June 2022.)
Larson was nonetheless visibly uncomfortable with being questioned concerning the Pirates of Caribbean actor. (The Room actress has been vocal amid the #MeToo motion, which champions victims of sexual assault to return ahead towards Hollywood figureheads in addition to in different teams worldwide.)
“You’ll see, I guess, if I see it,” she responded when pressed about whether or not she’ll watch the movie. “And I don’t know how I’ll feel if I do.”
The Edward Scissorhands actor’s Cannes look comes 4 years after he initially filed his defamation lawsuit towards Heard following her Washington Post op-ed. While the Texas native didn’t identify Depp within the piece, by which she described acts of alleged home violence, he argued that readers might learn between the strains.
Depp then misplaced his libel case within the U.Okay. in 2020 pegged to Heard’s allegations of abuse in the identical article. However, he got here out victorious within the 2022 defamation case within the U.S.
A jury dominated in June of that yr that the Aquaman actress, who was married to the Kentucky native from 2015 to 2017, owed him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Heard, in the meantime, was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages.
Both events objected the ruling for various causes, however the case was settled in December 2022. “I defended my truth and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed,” the Zombieland actress wrote by way of an Instagram assertion at the time. “This is not an act of concession. There are no restrictions or gags with respect to my voice moving forward.”
Depp, for his half, has seemingly started to make a comeback in Hollywood regardless of his controversial actions and authorized woes. Earlier this month, Us Weekly confirmed that the What’s Eating Gilbert Grape star inked a brand new take care of Dior.
The profitable contract with the posh label is value $20 million, Variety reported on Friday, May 12.
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The Nightmare on Elm Street actor proceeded to make a splash at Cannes, which marked his first purple carpet look since his and Heard’s trial. After the Tuesday screening of Jeanne Du Barry, by which Depp portrays King Louis XV, he and the remainder of the forged obtained a seven-minute standing ovation.
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