Johnny Depp, the renowned Hollywood actor, spoke at a press conference for his new movie, Genie Do Barry, at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

The 59-year-old actor addressed his comeback and being boycotted by Hollywood after his high-profile legal cases against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.

He said that people had been misled by fiction and that he never went anywhere.

Depp arrived 15 minutes late for the event and stated that it would take someone without a pulse to feel like none of this is happening.

He added that he did feel boycotted when he was asked to resign from a film because of something that was merely a bunch of vowels and consonants floating in the air.

However, he clarified that he does not feel boycotted by Hollywood now because he doesn’t think about it and has no further need for it.

Genie Do Barry’s rollout in France comes one year after Depp’s controversial Virginia defamation trial with Heard over a 2018 op-ed she wrote about coming forward with domestic abuse allegations.

Addressing the impact that this and a previous 2020 libel case in London had on his career, Depp added that he never went anywhere.

People have seen or heard the word comeback exchanged by folks and using that as a catchphrase.

He stated that he lived about 45 minutes away and maybe people stopped calling out of whatever their fear was at the time.

Depp clarified that he never went anywhere, and the notion of a comeback is almost like he’s going to come out and do a tap dance or some kind of spectacular feat on the table and dance his best for the audience.

He stated that the perception of his personal life is based purely on what he described as a fiction created in the courtrooms of Virginia and London.

The majority of what people read is fantastically, horrifically written fiction.

Cannes Film Festival’s chief Thierry Frémaux addressed having Depp’s movie open the festival, telling reporters that he doesn’t know about the image of Johnny Depp in the US.

He clarified that he only has one rule, which is the freedom of thinking and the freedom of speech and acting within a legal framework.

If Johnny Depp had been banned from acting in a film or the film was banned, they wouldn’t be talking about it.

Frémaux added that he saw Mawon’s film, and it could have been in competition.

She would have been the eighth female director.

This controversy came up once the film was announced at Cannes because everybody knew Johnny had made a film in France.

He stated that he didn’t know why she chose him, but it’s a question reporters should ask Mawon.

As for the rest, he’s the last person to discuss all this.

In November 2020, Depp lost his UK libel suit, in which he sued British tabloid The Sun for calling him a wife-beater.

Heard testified to back up the claims, and a London judge upheld the outlet’s claims as being substantially true.

In March 2021, his attempt to overturn that decision was overruled.

Separately, a jury in Virginia sided mostly with Depp in a trial last year.

He won all three counts of defamation he brought against Heard, and Heard won one of three claims in her counter-suit.

Both appealed the verdict but reached a settlement in December.

Heard, who will pay $1 million as part of the settlement, said in a lengthy statement at the time that she made no admission.

This is not an act of concession, and there are no restrictions or gags with respect to her voice moving forward.

In conclusion, Johnny Depp addressed his comeback and being boycotted by Hollywood at the Cannes Film Festival.

He clarified that people had been misled by fiction and that he never went anywhere.

Depp stated that he doesn’t feel boycotted by Hollywood now because he doesn’t think about it and has no further need for it.

The public perception of his personal life is based purely on what he described as a fiction created in the courtrooms of Virginia and London.