Johnny Depp defended by director - 'Never saw him act negatively'
msn.comJohnny Depp was accused of being a "wife-beater" to his ex-wife Amber Heard by a British publication back in 2018. The court case went to trial in 2020, where the claims were deemed "substantially true".
Since then, the Pirates of the Caribbean star has been shunned from the film industry while he works through a continuing defamation case.
John Waters, a prolific director and actor in Hollywood, has now spoken out in defence of Depp. Waters worked with Depp in 1990 on his feature film Cry-Baby, a musical comedy movie that had Depp playing the titular hero, Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker.
The film was a moderate success, earning $8 million on a $12 million budget. Waters' movie did get adapted into a Broadway show, however, titled Cry-Baby The Musical.
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