Experts suggest Johnny Depp's career is over and he'll be the next Harvey Weinstein
The firing of Fantastic Beasts 3 could be the beginning of the end of Johnny Depp's career in Hollywood.
After the resolution of the British justice, the career of Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - 79%, Sweeney Todd: The Demonic Barber of Fleet Street - 86%, Fantastic Animals and Where to Find Them - 73%) seems to be at a point of no return. The actor's search to restore his image did not go as expected, and some experts on the subject believe that the interpreter will not recover and Hollywood will do with him the same thing that happened with Harvey Weinstein.
Recently Depp's fans were devastated as London dismissed the star's defamation claim against British newspaper The Sun. A 2018 article referred to him as a "wife beater", and although the actor expected to receive compensation for the damage to his image, the judge determined that the post was "substantially true."
During the high-profile trial, Depp and Amber Heard's controversial 15-month marriage (Justice League - 41%, The Danish Girl - 69%, Aquaman - 73%) was fully exposed before the law and the media, including the details about their excessively toxic lifestyle fueled by the actor's mutual domestic violence and drug abuse. In a recent interview with Insider, former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani assured that the career of the Jack Sparrow interpreter will never recover and he will become "the next Harvey Weinstein":
I predict that his career will never recover. Disney has lost interest in Depp for his Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and I can't imagine any other major studio wanting to work with him. He is going to be the next Harvey Weinstein.
Although the justice determined that Depp was involved in situations of domestic abuse, it is quite extreme to compare him with the founder of Miramax. The former Hollywood mogul and the cornerstone of many celebrities' careers, he is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence after being charged with two serious sex crimes based on the testimony of 80 women who filed charges of sexual and emotional abuse.
Although Depp has already lost one of his legal battles, his lawyers have confirmed that the actor will file an appeal in London. Also pending is the $ 50 million defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard in Virginia, prompted by a column the actress wrote for The Washington Post in 2018 where she described her experience as a victim of domestic violence. On this, Neama Rahmani believes that the actor should leave the courts and dedicate himself to restoring his acting career:
Depp should get out of the libel lawsuit business while he still has a slice of his film career. The Virginia case is lost too, like many celebrity family law cases that do little to show celebrities in a good light. Depp should stick to scripts written by others rather than broadcasting his own real-life drama in court.
Along the same lines, Stacy Jones, executive director of Hollywood Branded and a pop culture influencer with a marketing agency in Los Angeles, told Insider that it is clear that Johnny Depp's firing from Fantastic Beasts 3 has been in the works since it began. his trial with The Sun. The expert believes that Warner Bros. issued a coherent decision taking into account that Fantastic Beasts is a family franchise:
It was in fact a very well orchestrated plan, built at the time of the start of the trial. The reality is that Warner Bros. had no choice in the matter but to say goodbye to Depp. Fantastic Beasts is a family movie, and physical abuse coupled with drug and alcohol abuse is not something that should be considered, even when the role he is playing is that of a bad boy.
Jones also ensures that the only way for Depp to put this scandal behind and recover is to "admit blame, accept responsibility" and really start to reform. "At no point until then will [Depp's career] have a chance to survive."
