Johnny Depp claims being boycotted by Hollywood after home violence allegations

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, who misplaced a libel case final 12 months over an article that referred to as him a ‘wife-beater’, claimed that he’s being boycotted by the trade.

According to Variety, in a current interplay with The Sunday Times, the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star talked in regards to the behaviour of the members of Hollywood in direction of him and the standing of his movie ‘Minamata’ within the US.

“Some films touch people and this affects those in ‘Minamata’ and people who experience similar things…And for anything … for Hollywood’s boycott of me? One man, one actor in an unpleasant and messy situation, over the last number of years?” he mentioned.

For the unversed, final 12 months, Depp misplaced a libel case towards British tabloid The Sun, which referred to the actor as a ‘spouse beater’ in an article about him and his ex-wife Amber Heard. The court docket dominated that the paper proved the content material of its article to be ‘considerably true’ and the choose discovered that 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of home violence had occurred. Depp additionally misplaced a bid to overturn the High Court ruling in March this 12 months.

After the case, the actor was dropped by Warner Bros. from its ‘Fantastic Beasts’ franchise and was changed with Mads Mikkelsen within the function of evil wizard Grindelwald.

Despite being surrounded by controversies, Depp has not misplaced hope.

“Moving towards where I need to go to make all that… to bring things to light,” he added.

Coming again to his film ‘Minamata’, truly, it had a world premiere on the Berlin International Film Festival in February however has not but been launched for American audiences.