Johnny Depp Reportedly Sabotaging Comeback with Old Habits - The Daily Beast

One mightiness deliberation that Johnny Depp would beryllium connected his champion behaviour pursuing his massive nationalist proceedings earlier this year. But the histrion is reportedly backmost to his formerly reported nonrecreational peccadillos connected the acceptable of his comeback project, Jeanne du Barry—formerly titled La Favorite.

Actor Bernard Montiel shared rumors from the acceptable of the upcoming movie connected the French speech amusement Touche pas à mon poste! (Don’t Touch My TV Set!) successful October, successful a sheet interrogation that’s recently begun to make the rounds successful English-language media. The histrion and commentator claimed that Depp and French manager Maïwenn Le Besco, known by the mononym Maïwen, had been clashing.

“I’ve heard immoderate sound from the shoot, precise superior stuff,” Montiel said. “So, [Depp is] an fantabulous actor, erstwhile helium comes connected set, but sometimes astatine six successful the greeting the unit is ready, and cipher turns up. So of course, Maïwenn, who is the director, gets angry, and the adjacent time she’s the 1 who doesn’t crook up. And you’ve got Johnny Depp, and she’s not there. It’s finished, implicit this week, [but] it's going very, precise badly. They don’t get connected astatine all; they’re screaming astatine each different the full time.”

Some mightiness retrieve that Depp’s “constant lateness” was among a bid of alleged complaints from the unit of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, shot successful 2015 successful Australia. According to a accumulation dispatch from The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, “sources adjacent to the accumulation study tales of excessive drinking, carnal fights with [Depp’s ex-wife, Amber] Heard and changeless lateness connected set, which often near hundreds of extras waiting for hours astatine a time.”

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer—who, sources told THR, frequently recovered himself strategizing with different higher-ups astir Depp’s tardiness—told the outlet, “You’ve got to recognize the benignant of unit Johnny was nether successful Australia… At times helicopters would travel him home. There would beryllium truthful galore media extracurricular his gates that trucks were feeding them. There was truthful overmuch worldly made up astir him: that Johnny had a combat connected acceptable and had gone backmost to the States, which we some work astir portion we were successful his trailer.”

Depp’s alleged chronic tardiness besides came up during his defamation proceedings this twelvemonth against Amber Heard. Tracey Jacobs, who testified that she worked arsenic the actor’s cause for decades, claimed that she’d explained to Depp that his accordant lateness and substance usage were hurting his career. CNN quoted Jacobs arsenic saying, “His prima had dimmed owed to it getting harder to get him jobs fixed the estimation that he’d acquired owed to his lateness and different things… People were talking and the question was retired determination astir his behavior.”

This summer, Depp claimed successful an explosive defamation proceedings that Heard had defamed him successful a 2018 Washington Post op-ed; portion she did not sanction him successful the piece, she described herself arsenic a “public fig representing home abuse.” The jury held Heard liable for implicit $10 cardinal successful damages but besides awarded her $2 million, connected the grounds that erstwhile Depp lawyer Adam Waldman had defamed her by inaccurately calling her allegations a “hoax.”

Earlier this month, Heard announced that she’d made the “very hard determination to settle” the lawsuit alternatively than determination guardant with her appeal; a source adjacent to Depp told The Daily Beast astatine the clip that Heard agreed to wage $1 million, a woody that precluded her paying the afloat $10 million.

News of Depp’s latest movie role broke successful January—after he’d mislaid his libel lawsuit against The Sun publisher News Group Newspapers successful the UK implicit a portion that called him a “wife beater,” and earlier the Virginia proceedings this summer. Variety has also reported that Depp is acceptable to play King Louis XV successful the caller film; manager Maïwen, who’s besides an actress, volition prima arsenic his last mistress, aft whom the movie is named. Variety also noted that arsenic a play piece, Jeanne du Barry is a caller absorption for Maïwenn, whose erstwhile works—including DNA, Mon Roi, and Polisse—have each been contemporary. Netflix is set to licence the caller film for integer organisation successful France aft its theatrical release. No North American merchandise has been announced.