Protests have been constructing on social media and from French filmmakers on Tuesday forward of Johnny Depp‘s pink carpet look for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.
Depp is making his film comeback on the French Riviera pageant along with his new movie “Jeanne du Barry“, during which he performs French King Louis XV.
It is his first movie since a bitter defamation trial towards ex-wife Amber Heard final 12 months, during which either side accused one another of home abuse.
Depp received the trial however stays a poisonous determine for a lot of.
A pal of Heard, journalist Eve Barlow, began a brand new hashtag on social media — #CannesYouNot — criticising the choice to ask him to Cannes.
“Cannes seem proud of their history supporting rapists and abusers,” Barlow wrote on Instagram, with photos of Depp alongside previous Cannes regulars akin to Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu.
On Monday, pageant director Thierry Fremaux mentioned he was not serious about Depp’s authorized woes, saying: “I am interested in Depp the actor.”
A gaggle of 123 French movie trade employees additionally denounced the pageant in an article within the Liberation newspaper.
“By rolling out the red carpet to men and women who commit assaults, the festival demonstrates that violence in creative circles can be exercised with complete impunity,” they wrote.
They have been additionally focusing on the director and lead actress of Depp’s new movie, Maiwenn, who has admitted to assaulting a journalist in a Paris restaurant earlier this 12 months.
Her sufferer, journalist Edwy Plenel, says it might have been on account of articles concerning the rape allegations going through Maiwenn’s ex-husband, director Luc Besson.
Fremaux addressed criticism of the pageant from celebrated French actress Adele Haenel, who final week introduced she was quitting movie performing because of the trade’s “complacency… towards sexual abusers”.
“Cannes has a big media impact and is useful for people who want to speak about certain problems,” Fremaux mentioned.
“You wouldn’t be here… if it was a festival of rapists,” he added.
The pageant runs till May 27 and options premieres for the brand new Indiana Jones and Martin Scorsese movies, in addition to 21 motion pictures competing for the Palme d’Or.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
