Johnny Depp Says Cancel Culture Has Gone Too Far As He Accepted An Honorary Award At A Film Festival In Spain
Johnny Depp, who is currently gobbling up the attention of his many fans on the European film festival circuit, has some complaints. For one, cancel culture has gotten way out of hand. And another thing, why is nobody standing up for those who have been wrongly judged in a court of law? And how about these greedy soulless corporate movie studios who have no respect for THEE ARTIST? All this was asked as Johnny accepted the honorary Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain in opposition to Spain’s Association of Female Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) who protested the decision to honor a court determined “wife-beater.” So watch out CIMA, like Johnny said, “no one is safe” from cancel culture, not even women. He should know because it’s happened to him!
Deadline reports that Johnny was “fairly low-energy” during a press conference at the festival “but seemed willing to engage with attending journalists” and “didn’t appear to have an issue with addressing sensitive topics,” but that the festival itself tried to protect him by redirecting and asking the press to “stick to questions about the actor’s career.” Nevertheless, he persisted.
Johnny Depp went on the record today saying that he is a victim of cancel culture and that “no one is safe” from the movement, calling on people to “stand up” for people facing “injustice”.
“It can be seen as an event in history that lasted for however long it lasted, this cancel culture, this instant rush to judgement based on what essentially amounts to polluted air,” he commented ahead of receiving the honorary Donostia Award at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival
“It’s so far out of hand now that I can promise you that no one is safe. Not one of you. No one out that door. No one is safe,” he continued. “It takes one sentence and there’s no more ground, the carpet has been pulled. It’s not just me that this has happened to, it’s happened to a lot of people. This type of thing has happened to women, men. Sadly at a certain point they begin to think that it’s normal. Or that it’s them. When it’s not.”
I know it sounds like a snappy response but the video of his answer is PAINFUL to watch as Johnny struggled to find both his words and the energy with which to push them out of his mouth. I’ll throw the video down below but I can’t recommend you watch it unless you actually want your brain to slowly leak out of your ears. I don’t know your life! Johnny also seemed to touch on his recent losing libel suit against The Sun who won the right to call Johnny a “wife-beater” in regards to his ex-wife Amber Heard.
In what appeared to be a reference to his high-profile libel case with UK newspaper The Sun over its branding of him as a “wife-beater”, which he lost last year, Depp said, “It doesn’t matter if a judgement, per se, has taken some artistic license. When there’s an injustice, whether it’s against you or someone you love, or someone you believe in – stand up, don’t sit down. ‘Cause they need you.”
Then the star of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End, On Stranger Tides, and Dead Men Tell No Tales discussed how Hollywood isn’t like it was in the good old days. They’re just cranking out any old shit now for money.
“Hollywood is certainly not what it was,” he responded. “The studio system, the grudge matches, the pandemonium and chaos of cinematic releases to streaming… it is a case of, ‘no matter what, I’m going to get mine’. That’s where these people are coming from.”
“They realize they’re just a disposable as I am. Some more so,” he continued. “Large, large corporations take control of these things. As someone who takes part in the creation of cinema, how much more formula do we need from the likes of studios? How much more condescension do we need as audiences? I think that Hollywood has grotesquely underestimated the audience.”
Here’s the video of Johnny’s presser. His remarks about cancel culture and the “injustice” done to him begin at the 8:30 mark. I’d love to tell you that there is one place in this 40-plus-minute interview where Johnny takes off his cap and there’s another smaller cap underneath, and under that cap a small gerbil lives. But that’s just the fantasy I allowed myself to keep from going insane listening to this drivel.
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