from “Jeanne du Barry” to the countryside

Johnny Depp new life? It’s a moment for an artist who has always accustomed us to excesses and the speed with which these excesses were cancelled. It seems like only yesterday that he was painted by the world press as the monster to be thrown in jail as well as on the front page for the trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard. And instead today he has turned pages in the role of a rehabilitated superstar to be welcomed and celebrated on the most coveted red carpet in the world, that of Cannes where, in the regal eighteenth-century role of King Louis XV of France, on May 16th he will kick off the 76th Film Festival with the historical colossal “Jeanne du Barry”. A profane Easter rebirth also made up of a completely bucolic new life choice. Let’s see how Tim Burton’s protégé is shining in a new light.

Johnny Depp new life, the movie

There rebirth of Johnny Depp he could not fail to pass by the sets, through which he created his myth and his legend. This, according to the pen of Gloria Satta del Messaggero, was the “dowry” that he carried with him at the beginning of filming of the new effort:

“Over the past 4 years he had been defenestrated from Hollywood, marginalized by civil society and exposed to public ridicule. The reason? The defamatory accusations hurled against him by Amber during a horror-tinged trial in which, between severed fingers dipped in blood, swollen faces, tales of monstrous hangovers, domestic violence, perversions and assorted humiliations, a devastating portrait to say the least.”

Nothing that has been able to undermine its appeal so much so that the big opportunity arrives:

“The star’s career now seemed to have been burned forever even if even the ex Courtney Love and Vanessa Paradis, mother of Johnny’s two children, testified in his favor (“never been violent”). (…) To tell the truth, in the midst of the dispute, Depp had found a job thanks to an Italian production, Ilbe, which had engaged him as a voice actor in the animated web series Puffins presented by the actor himself in Rome in 2021 amidst cheering crowds at Alice nella Città during the Rome Film Festival. Then the Sun King.”

Because this is the role she plays in the feature film which is a costume drama directed by Maiwenn, a French actress, director, screenwriter, film producer and singer. She will be the same woman to play the famous 18th century courtesan who makes her way into the affections of the king, from whom the film itself takes its name and she will be yet another Depp’s Phoenix.

Johnny Depp new life, the thought of Dagospia

The mind of Dagospia has expressed itself on this announced success. Here is what Roberto D’Agostino declares verbatim:

“The plaintiff’s victory in Amber Heard’s trial is the headstone of the #MeToo movement that began with the arrest of Harvey Weinstein, a producer who became too powerful and ended up scapegoating all the abuses. Depp also paid for that exasperated climate in which he saw himself and did everything. #MeToo has gone too far, creating a game of massacre in which even giants like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski have ended up crushed. But fortunately an era has ended, the one that had put the weapon of blackmail into the hands of so many alleged victims.

Life in the countryside

Not only Cannes for the new international Johnny. If in fiction he loves to sail the seven seas in the role of Jack Sparrow, in its real existence everything is calmer. The actor moved to Somerset in the English countryside with these intentions:

“I love places with character. I have several homes in various places and they all mean something special to me. I don’t have them just to say I have them. The English are great and greet you as if you were a neighbour, without going overboard. I don’t mind if people ask for an autograph or a quick chat, but not when I’m having private time with my family. I can walk into stores without being surrounded by people wanting selfies. Up to a point I don’t mind, but sometimes it gets a bit much.”

There Johnny Depp’s country house it would have cost £13 million. The purchase dates back to 2014 and is about three and a half hours by car from London, immersed in an enclosed park of 850 acres. Some gossip sites reveal that the house would have 12 rooms and 8 bathrooms. Bucolic yes, but always as a Hollywood star. Given that these are rumors, therefore to be taken “with a grain of salt”, it would only be the confirmation of an old-fashioned celebrity.