SAN SEBASTIAN, Sept 23 — Nobody is safe from so-called “cancel culture,” movie star Johnny Depp said on Wednesday at the San Sebastian Film Festival where he was due to receive the event’s top award for his nearly 40-year career on screen.
Depp, 58, lost a libel battle with a British tabloid that labelled him a “wife beater” last year, when a London court ruled he had repeatedly assaulted his former partner, US actor Amber Heard.struggled to secure a U.S. release. On Wednesday, Depp decried “this cancel culture or this instant rush to judgement based on essentially what amounts to polluted air that’s exhaled.”
“I’ll go to somebody’s house man. I’ll perform in your kid’s birthday party at this point,” he told a news conference, shortly before a ceremony where he would be presented with the Donostia award, San Sebastian’s highest accolade.Depp ascended to Hollywood stardom in the 1990s with portrayals of loners and outsiders in cult classics such as John Waters’