(Washington) Johnny Depp’s career and finances were already on the decline before Amber Heard’s 2018 domestic violence charges, witnesses said Thursday in the actor’s libel lawsuit against his ex-wife. claims to have been punished by Hollywood for speaking out.
Posted at 3:45 p.m.
Updated at 6:52 p.m.
Actress Ellen Barkin, the only other celebrity to finally testify in court in Fairfax, near Washington, for her part recalled that Johnny Depp “was drunk almost all the time”, jealous and possessive when they had had a love affair from the 1990s.
In her pre-recorded testimony, she said the actor threw a bottle of wine at her, but not aimed at her, during an argument on the set of Las Vegas Paranoid in 1997.
Another witness, Johnny Depp’s former agent, claimed the comedian was “the biggest movie star in the world” before “his star waned” from drugs and alcohol, and “his unprofessional attitude” from 2010.
“He was consistently late to just about every movie” he did, said Tracey Jacobs, who served as his agent for 30 years before being fired in October 2016.
“Teams don’t like to wait hours for the movie star to show up and […] it made people reluctant to employ it,” she explained in recorded testimony.
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According to her, her drug and alcohol use interfered with her work. He regularly used an earpiece to have someone whisper his lines to him, Ms.me Jacobs.
She claimed to have never witnessed violent acts by the actor.
Episode 5 of the saga Pirates of the Caribbeanfilmed in 2015 in Australia, had been interrupted for several weeks because Johnny Depp had severed his finger during an argument with Amber Heard which, according to her, would have degenerated into a particularly sordid sexual assault.
Johnny Depp, however, continued to spend lavishly, said his former wealth manager Joel Mandel, who had accompanied him since 1999 before also being sacked in 2016.
Beginning in 2010, Johnny Depp’s career stumbled with “several sequel movies that didn’t pan out,” he explained in his pre-recorded testimony.
In 2015, “it was clear that there were alcohol and drug problems” and “this translated into a more erratic attitude”, he explained, as well as spending several hundred thousand dollars. dollars each month.
Johnny Depp accuses Amber Heard of having ruined his reputation and his career by having affirmed in a column published in 2018 by the washington post that she had suffered domestic violence two years earlier, when they were married, without mentioning her name.
False rumors
He claims to have never raised his hand on a woman and assures that these allegations prompted Disney studios to deprive him of the role of the famous Captain Jack Sparrow for the 6and opus of Pirates of the Caribbean that he had to turn.
But, underlined Tracey Jacobs, “nobody was committed to him having the role”.
A Disney producer, Tina Newman, confirmed that she never discussed with studio officials a possible shelving because of the podium.
It was Amber Heard, on the contrary, who was banned from Hollywood after denouncing her ex-husband, said Jessica Kovacevic, the current agent of the 36-year-old actress.
Despite the “enormous success” of the film Aquamanreleased at the end of 2018 and in which she co-starred with Jason Momoa, her role had been reduced to Aquaman 2she explained.
She denounced the statements of a lawyer hired by Johnny Depp, who accused Amber Heard of “false statements”, and the false rumors launched on social networks which made him lose “other career opportunities”.
Deliberations will resume on Monday and continue until May 27, after which the seven jurors will retire to deliberate.
Amber Heard filed for divorce in May 2016, just a year after their marriage, accusing her husband of domestic violence. She had dropped her complaint before the divorce was pronounced in early 2017.