See Johnny Depp Make His Return to Cannes Film Festival

As acold arsenic Johnny Depp's agelong and storied vocation is concerned, the past fewer years haven't exactly been, shall we say...good.

The three-time Oscar nominee's personal estimation took a pummeling successful courts connected 2 continents and theatergoers haven't seen his look successful wide merchandise since 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, his 2nd quality successful a franchise that later traded him successful for Mads Mikkelsen.

So, the 2023 Cannes Film Festival's determination to open with the satellite premiere of Depp's latest movie, the humanities drama Jeanne du Barry, inevitably served arsenic a litmus trial to spot wherever nationalist sentiment was erstwhile it came to the histrion being spotlighted astatine a large red carpet event.

"He is precise arrogant of the film, the reception and the enactment he's received from his fans," a root adjacent to Depp tells E! News. "Cannes was great, helium took the clip with everybody, engaging with fans connected the street. Johnny takes it each precise earnestly and was precise professional."

"It's not my tide we're discussing," he said with a small laughter astatine a May 17 property league erstwhile asked whether helium inactive felt boycotted by Hollywood oregon if helium sensed the tide was turning successful his favour again.

The nighttime before, a seven-minute lasting ovation—for his instrumentality to the large surface arsenic overmuch arsenic his show arsenic King Louis XV—had near him misty-eyed.

"You'd person to not person a pulse to feel, astatine that point," helium continued, "to consciousness like, 'No, nary of this is happening, this is really benignant of a weird joke. You've been dormant for 35 years, truthful conscionable fto the weirdness commence.' Of course, erstwhile you're asked to resign from a movie you're doing, due to the fact that of thing that is simply a clump of vowels and consonants floating successful the air...Yeah, you consciousness a spot boycotted."

But now, helium added, "I don't consciousness boycotted by Hollywood due to the fact that I don't deliberation astir it...I don't person overmuch further request for Hollywood myself."

Residentially speaking, he's been enjoying a mellow life in the English countryside. "I tin spell into shops without being surrounded by radical wanting selfies," helium said successful the April contented of Somerset Life. He clarified, "I don't caput if radical privation an autograph oregon a little chat, but not erstwhile I americium having immoderate backstage clip with my family. British radical are chill and volition greet you arsenic if you are a neighbour without going implicit the top."

A justice signed disconnected connected their divorce in January 2017. Two years later, Depp filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard over a 2018 op-Ed she wrote for the Washington Post that didn't sanction him but successful which she referred to herself as having been a "public fig representing home abuse" (not the archetypal portion of writing she'd done successful that vein, either). She countersued for $100 million.

In November 2020, Depp lost a abstracted libel suit successful the U.K. aft a British justice decided The Sun tabloid hadn't defamed the histrion by calling him a "wife beater." His exit from the Fantastic Beasts franchise was announced days aboriginal and past his petition to entreaty that verdict was denied successful March 2021.

And yet, peak-circus was inactive to come.

Depp—who reiterated to reporters astatine Cannes that the bulk of what they'd work astir him implicit the past six years was "fantastically, horrifically written fiction"—pressed on, uncovering that galore arms remained wide open, adjacent if a fewer doors had slammed successful his face.

After the June 1, 2022, verdict, the enduring look of Dior's Sauvage toured with guitar legend Jeff Beck and past shot Jeanne du Barry—which, incidentally, was picked up by Vertical for North American distribution, according to Variety, and has made much than $4.1 cardinal astatine the French container bureau during 2 weeks successful theaters aft its Cannes premiere.

Lily-Rose Depp, whose HBO bid The Idol was the first-ever TV amusement to premiere astatine Cannes, said she was "super happy" for her dad, the 24-year-old telling Entertainment Tonight it was "so awesome that we get to bash projects that we're ace arrogant of."

"I support wondering astir the connection 'comeback,' due to the fact that I didn't spell anywhere," helium said astatine Cannes. "I unrecorded astir 45 minutes distant from here, successful fact. Maybe radical stopped calling—out of immoderate their fearfulness was astatine the time—but I didn't spell nowhere. I've been sitting around. 'Comeback' is astir similar I'm going to travel retired and bash a pat dance—dance my champion and anticipation you approve."

After the festival, Depp flew to London to execute astatine an all-star tribute to Beck, who died successful January, astatine Royal Albert Hall. He had to cancel some U.S. shows portion helium nursed an ankle fracture that worsened during each the tromping astir astatine Cannes, but has resumed touring with his stone super-group Hollywood Vampires, and their adjacent halt is Istanbul for a June 10 show benefiting the Disasters Emergency Committee.

After their summertime tour, according to the Depp source, he'll beryllium directing his archetypal movie successful much than 25 years, a diagnostic starring Al Pacino that's expected to get rolling successful the fall.

"This twelvemonth has been packed with a large premix of each the things helium loves to bash including directing, acting and performing," the root said. "Johnny is feeling energized by each these projects."

Though helium sensed reporters' ulterior motives portion they were ostensibly gathered to speech astir a film—"It's similar asking a question, 'How are you doing?' But what's underneath, successful the subtext, is 'God I hatred you'"—Depp noted astatine Cannes what a "miracle" it was to get immoderate movie made successful this time and age. "You triumph close there."

All that different noise, helium added, "I mean, it's boring, isn't it? You guys sick of it by now? It's weird."