Johnny Depp reunited with director Terry Gilliam on the crimson carpet of the UK premiere of French filmmaker MaÏwenn’s costume drama Jeanne du Barry on Monday night.
Depp’s London-based movie firm INA.2 is gearing as much as launch the Court docket of Versailles-set story throughout the UK from this Friday (April 19).
Gilliam, who directed Depp in Worry and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Imaginarium of Physician Parnassus (2009), jokingly ticked Depp off for his late arrival.
“Sorry, it’s too late the movie has began ten minutes in the past,” quipped Gilliam as Depp arrived on the Curzon Mayfair cinema.
He then referred to Depp because the “new Jackie Chan” on the actor enveloped him in a bear hug, seemingly in reference to the very fact the star has been figuring out.
Depp had the final phrase as he jokingly introduced Gilliam to the assembled photographers and videographers, declaring “Girls and gentleman, Mr. Tim Burton”.
The actor additionally met briefly with aspiring filmmakers from the London department of the Ghetto Movie College, which additionally has hubs in Los Angeles and New York, earlier than heading into the screening.
Depp was at Monday night time’s premiere within the firm of Maïwenn, who co-wrote, directed and stars within the historic love story which opened the Cannes Movie Competition final yr.
Maïwenn performs the titular courtesan reverse Depp within the function of King Louis XV, who falls beneath her attraction and establishes her on the Court docket of Versailles as his final official mistress.
Depp informed Monday night time’s viewers that he had been shocked when Maïwenn approached him for the function of Louis XV.
“Immediately what occurs in your mind is that you just return to Jap Kentucky… you understand that you just come from the ‘ombelico’, ‘nombril’, the stomach button of nowhere and also you’re taking part in the king of France,” he mentioned.
“It made no sense to me, I attempted to speak her out of it. She wasn’t listening to it and she or he had nice braveness to take me into her forged.”
Maïwenn recounted how Jeanne du Barry was a ardour mission pushed by her fascination with the 18th century heroine and parallels she felt between their lives.
“It’s a film that I’ve needed to make since 2016 and I used to be obsessed by Jeanne du Barry for a few years as a result of she was a feminist earlier than everyone else,” the filmmaker informed the viewers.