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John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, singer, producer, and musician. He has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor for his performance of the title role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008), and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Actor, among other accolades. He is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars. Depp made his film debut in the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, before rising to prominence as a teen idol on the television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). He had a supporting role in Oliver Stone's 1986 war film Platoon and played the title character in the 1990 romantic fantasy Edward Scissorhands.
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Cannes Day 2 Roundup: Johnny Depp Media Frenzy Kicks Off Star-Studded Opening Day

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Cannes Film Festival always knows how to make an entrance and, while questions still remain about whether the shaky global theatrical experience and China’s buying power will affect the festival (coupled with issues involving the festival’s online ticketing platform), it wasn’t evident on the red carpet. Cannes Welcomes Johnny DeppThe opening night feature, the Maïwenn-directed “Jeanne du Barry,” a period piece starring Johnny Depp as Louix XV, kicked off the first night of the festival.

Reviews from critics were tepid but, as TheWrap’s Steve Pond said in his review, “It’s hard to say that Depp’s performance justifies the fuss, because the movie’s all about Jeanne, not Louis.” Regardless, the film garnered a seven-minute standing ovation for Depp who said at the film’s press conference that “everything that the majority of you have been reading for the last five or six years with regard to me and my life is fantastically, horrifically written fiction.”From the minute the festival announced its opening night film, opinions flew fast and furious.

Cannes president Thierry Fremaux defended the festival and its choice to show Depp’s feature by saying, “If you thought that it’s a festival for rapists, you wouldn’t be here listening to me, you would not be complaining that you can’t get tickets to get into screenings.” It didn’t help matters that Maïwenn herself would be embroiled in controversy, admitting she spit on a journalist in the lead-up to the film and having said journalist accuse her being against the #MeToo movement.Prior to the screening, a letter, signed by 100 French actors, was published in the newspaper “Liberation,” decrying Cannes for “rolling out the red carpet to the men and women who assault,” though it.

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