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Nothing seems to be easy in the life of Johnny Depp. In the one of now. When everything was ready on Tuesday for his, finally and despite everything, triumphant landing at the María Cristina hotel in San Sebastián at 11 pm on Tuesday, it soon transpired that no, it was not going to be possible.
His private flight from London had been diverted from Biarritz to Toulouse.
After a moment of panic, the solution arrived: on the road to San Sebastián. In total, three hours and 16 minutes according to Google maps.
Lack of sleep was evident in the appearance before the press on Wednesday shortly before receiving the Donostia Award. In fact, his attitude and his love for short sentences that did not end or did it in a cliff of babbling were the same as always, but now, at least, there was reason.
It took exactly five minutes for the question to appear.
It was the second. And that the moderator of the appearance before the press insisted from minute one that here, in the whole of San Sebastián, they had come to talk about his book, Depp's and the festival's. And the answer was what it was.
Asked elliptically, about getting around the cancellation of the one who gave and took turns, about his opinion of the culture of cancellation to which so many artists are subjected today, Depp started in monologue mode: "It is a very complex situation.
We live in a situation in history in which the culture of cancellation is polluted air that is exhaled.
But I feel safe. It's important that when you're faced with something as mind-blowing and overwhelming as what I'm in ... This hits you on many fronts. I do not doubt that this movement like so many others has emerged with the best of intentions, but it is out of control. No one is sure. Neither of you either ... It is enough for someone to say a phrase, just one phrase ... It has happened to many men, women and children, and the worst thing is that this type of unpleasant situation begins to think that it is normal ... . ", he said, stopped and continued in a string of indefinite reproaches, broken complaints and bottomless words.
And up to here, '
the matter'
. Another question was much more direct about her position on the fact that several associations of women filmmakers have considered her award untimely and ...
cancellation for cancellation,
the question was vetoed from the rostrum.
Remember to place us that the San Sebastian Festival could not help but release a statement four days after announcing the Donostia Award on August 9, before the angry protest, among others, from CIMA, the Association of Women Filmmakers. In the text signed by the director,
José Luis Rebordinos,
stated his commitment "against inequality, abuse of power and sexist violence." And immediately afterwards he made explicit in a detailed way the reasons why he did not share the accusations of that group in particular and of the "lynching in social networks" in a concrete way: "According to the proven data that we have, Johnny Depp did not has been arrested, charged or convicted of any form of assault or violence against any woman. "
According to the non-compliant and non-compliant, to continue making memory, the message that is launched with the award of this award is that
"it does not matter what you do as long as you are a good actor",
in the expression of Cristina Andreu, president of the group that has led the protest. And all this due to the ruling of a British court that dismissed the accusation of defamation of the actor to the newspaper
'The Sun'
alleging that what was published there was "substantially correct". What appeared in the tabloid was a detailed description of a case of repeated abuse involving his wife
Amber Heard.
Now Depp has started the court battle in the United States. A Virginia State court will hear the actor's complaint against Heard for describing abuse and death threats in an article in
"The Washington Post" a
few months after reaching a divorce agreement.
In any case, few actors, waiting for what happens in court, define the last cycle of Hollywood like him. After debuting with just 21 years as a victim of Freddy Krueger in 'A
Nightmare on Elm Street'
(1984), he would become one of the most iconic figures of the 90s thanks to his roles in films far from the radar of the supposed stars of the moment. Both his character in '
The tear'
, by John Waters, and, and above all, his first collaboration with Tim Burton in '
Eduardo Scissorhands
' made him that interpreter with a minimal gesture, slightly lazy and always intense in his immobility closer to the an icon that of the nervousness of many of his contemporary colleagues.
And to all this of the previous paragraph, in effect, Depp dedicated the rest of a pending intervention in that way of speaking as serious as it is sickly discontinuous. He said that he has always trusted his intuition to choose roles and that in all of them he recognizes a thread that unites them, from Eduardo Scissorhands "to the worst of them all." He also lamented a Hollywood that
"has grotesquely disparaged its audience for too long"
. And so on until dedicating the most heartfelt part of his speech to Jack Sparrow to make it clear that the character belongs to him whatever Disney or any other company says. "This stop was strange," he commented in reference to precisely Disney's decision to strip him of the role. "I am aware how Captain Jack has made the lives of so many children who are in hospitals happy ... Nothing will prevent me from continuing to be so.
I don't need a company to allow it.
These are strange and sudden times." And there he left it.
For the end was the recognition of the festival, "the city and the mayor" for the award.
Although it is part of the protocol that the winner does something similar, in his case it sounded more sense.
"Thank you for not buying what they say about me, which is false.
The only thing I know how to do is movies. I was worried that if my presence would offend someone, but ...
I feel delighted from the humility
.
"
And here, period and cancellation.
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