Jeanne du Barry director Maïwenn is clarifying feedback she made about Johnny Depp, saying he was “scary” to work with.
When Johnny Depp praised and thanked his Jeanne du Barry director for giving him an opportunity when practically no different filmmaker would, it confirmed real appreciation. However then director Maïwenn appeared to betray her star, giving an interview in The Unbiased that painted Depp as “scary” on the set and Maïwenn as disloyal. Now, Maïwenn is making an attempt to proper the wrongs forward of the movie’s North American launch subsequent week.
Talking with Selection, Maïwenn stated that her quotes about Johnny Depp had been misrepresented. “Once I made a comment about Johnny being ‘scary,’ I used to be speaking about his charisma, his notoriety, his star standing, and many others…[I] was shocked after I found that the newspaper had headlined that ‘The crew have been afraid of [Johnny Depp]’ as a result of written like that, and with out its context and subtleties, it completely not means the identical factor. The journalist didn’t need to grasp the subtlety of my phrases.”
As for what Maïwenn stated about Depp in The Independent: “I’ve to be sincere. It’s tough to shoot with him… all of the crew have been scared as a result of he has a distinct sort of humor and we didn’t know if he was going to be on time, or if he was going to be alright to say his traces…I imply, even when he was there on set, on time, the crew have been afraid of him.”
Maïwenn would go on to instantly name out the author of The Unbiased piece whereas clarifying that Depp is “scary” in simply how a lot “charisma” he brings to the set. She, too, in contrast him to Marlon Brando within the degree of presence and genius he exudes. Depp and Brando turned good associates within the ‘90s after starring with one another in Don Juan DeMarco; Depp would additionally direct Brando in 1997’s The Courageous. Depp might be directing one other previous Brando co-star, Al Pacino, in the upcoming film Modì.
In Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, Depp performs Louis XV reverse the director, who portrays the titular mistress.
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