Johnny Depp Says He Feels Betrayed By Disney
Johnny Depp lost his part as Captain Jack Sparrow once Amber Heard’s allegations of domestic violence came to light. Depp has played Jack Sparrow in five films in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Depp is now countersuing Heard for defamation and for essentially ruining his career, which caused him and Disney to part ways.
In the last week or so, Depp has been testifying, trying to clear his name of the accusations. He has been asked by the attorneys if he would ever return as Jack Sparrow and he said no. He went on to add that he felt betrayed and hurt.
“Hurt. Blinding hurt. It was like somebody hit me in the back of the head with a 2×4… Captain Jack Sparrow was a character I built from the ground up and was something that I, of course, put a lot of [myself] into the character and also having worked on these films with these people and added much of myself, much of my own re-writing of the dialogue and scenes and jokes. I didn’t quite understand how, after that long relationship and quite a successful relationship certainly for Disney, that suddenly I was guilty until proven innocent.”– Depp
Depp said when questioned if he would return to Disney if they offered him “$300 million and a million alpacas”, he clarified what he meant and felt when he said he would turn the offer down.
“There was a very deep and distinct feeling of having been betrayed by the people that I had been working with, the people I had worked hard for, people I had delivered a character to that they initially despised.”– Depp
Depp also went on to say that he was going to stay on playing Jack Sparrow as long as it would allow and that he wanted to give the franchise, characters, and the fans a proper goodbye from Captain jack Sparrow.
“My feeling was that these characters should be able to have their proper goodbye, as it were. A franchise can only last for so long and there’s a way to end a franchise like that and I thought that the characters deserved to have their way out, to end the franchise on a very good note. I planned on continuing until it was time to stop.”– Depp
Court hearings are far from over. Amber Heard is supposed to take the stand at some point and we will most definitely be following along.
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Source: movieweb.com
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