Johnny Depp: What are your plans now and how to relaunch your career in Hollywood

Johnny Depp is planning a double comeback in show business after that his surprising victory at court.

The 58-year-old actor smiled and shook hands with fans in a Newcastle, England pub on Wednesday night after seeing the US jury calling his ex-wife Amber Heard a liar.

Buoyed by feverish support on social media and in the courtroom, he believes he now has a “golden opportunity” to restart his career.

Later this year he plans to release an album with guitar legend Jeff Beck, 77, written by the two at Beck’s home in Sussex, where Depp spent months at a time. He will also start making arthouse films.

His legal team applauded the verdict, with UK law firm Schillings saying they “couldn’t be happier for him.” The company said it was pleased to have had the opportunity to “expose” the falsehoods Ms. Heard told.

In particular, his lawyers found it significant that Heard confessed that he had not donated $ 7 million (£ 5.6 million) to charity from his divorce settlement, as he claimed in London. de facto admitting that she had falsified herself before the High Court in 2020.

A spokesperson for Schillings said: “We are delighted that Johnny had the opportunity to explain what he has been through, however painful it must have been.” “After the UK verdict, Johnny said he wasn’t going to change his fight to be honest, that his resolve remained steadfast and that he intended to prove the allegations against him were false.

“We think now he’s finally caught up with him and we couldn’t be happier for him.”

Depp remained silent after the UK court verdict, but told reporter Jason Solomons: “This is the golden opportunity to do exactly what I’ve wanted to do for years, which is to make the movies or movies I want. . “.

According to his relatives, he will relaunch his career with new films that aren’t necessarily $ 300 million super-productions.

Depp’s new career will see him starting from near zero financially. In the UK court in 2020, it was revealed that he had made up to $ 500 million over the course of his career.

He apparently spent them on property, drugs, drinks, and whims such as blowing up the ashes of his hero, writer Hunter S. Thompson, in space, costing him $ 4.5 million.

After the misfortune, his bohemian personality (he introduces himself as a carefree spendthrift living in high society) has not changed.

Now he hopes to pick up the threads of his film career, which was stalled after losing his libel suit in London and agreeing to withdraw from the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets. In an extensive interview with film critic Solomons, published on his podcast “Have You Seen Any Good Movies Lately?”, Depp revealed that he hopes to return to acting.

He makes a distinction between cinema and film, ‘a big difference I feel’. He explains that cinema gives you that kind of freedom to create, to show bits of character touches, to reveal the crack, it’s an exploration; while other times, when you make a movie, you go in there, they want the lines or lines to be said and then you leave if you can. “

The verdict means Heard lied to the US jury, contrary to the ruling he received in 2020 in Britain.

British public relations expert Mark Borkowski said: “There’s no going back for Heard in Hollywood. If you’re sitting down to make a movie or thinking about casting, will you hire her?

“Watch the huge protest over Aquaman 2, where a petition to get her expelled from the film got four and a half million signatures. The process contaminates any marketing or public relations to release a film. “