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Come once more? Brie Larson seemed to be flustered and shocked when she was requested to weigh in on Johnny Depp’s presence on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition.
“You’re asking me that?” Larson, 33, stated throughout a Tuesday, Might 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 perceive the correlation or why me particularly.”
The reporter then clarified that for the reason that 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 referred to as herself a sufferer of home violence in an op-ed for The Washington Publish. A jury dominated in his favor in June 2022.)
Larson was nonetheless visibly uncomfortable with being questioned in regards to the Pirates of Caribbean actor. (The Room actress has been vocal amid the #MeToo motion, which champions victims of sexual assault to return ahead in opposition to Hollywood figureheads in addition to in different teams worldwide.)
“You’ll see, I assume, if I see it,” she responded when pressed about whether or not she’ll watch the movie. “And I don’t know the way I’ll really feel if I do.”
The Edward Scissorhands actor’s Cannes look comes 4 years after he initially filed his defamation lawsuit in opposition to Heard following her Washington Publish op-ed. Whereas the Texas native didn’t title Depp within the piece, through 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.Ok. in 2020 pegged to Heard’s allegations of abuse in the identical article. Nevertheless, he got here out victorious within the 2022 defamation case within the U.S.
A jury dominated in June of that 12 months 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.
Each events objected the ruling for various causes, however the case was settled in December 2022. “I defended my fact and in doing so my life as I knew it was destroyed,” the Zombieland actress wrote by way of an Instagram assertion on the time. “This isn’t an act of concession. There are not any restrictions or gags with respect to my voice shifting ahead.”
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 Consuming Gilbert Grape star inked a brand new take care of Dior.
The profitable contract with the luxurious label is value $20 million, Selection reported on Friday, Might 12.
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The Nightmare on Elm Road 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, through which Depp portrays King Louis XV, he and the remainder of the solid obtained a seven-minute standing ovation.
