By ANI
WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Johnny Depp hit the purple carpet just lately on the Deauville Film Festival amid his ongoing authorized battle with ex-wife Amber Heard.
According to Page Six, he attended a screening in north-western France of his movie ‘City of Lies’, through which he has performed a retired detective who’s satisfied the Los Angeles Police Department performed a component within the 1997 homicide of The Notorious B.I.G.
The film has additionally addressed the 1996 demise of Biggie’s rap rival Tupac Shakur. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star wore a navy go well with and an identical fedora as he strolled the purple carpet, stopping a number of instances to take images and signal autographs for followers in attendance.
‘City of Lies’ had first premiered in December 2018 out of competitors on the Noir in Festival in Italy. It was initially supposed to be launched within the US in September 2018 earlier than being hit with a number of delays, which have been prolonged even additional as a result of COVID pandemic.
The crime flick has since been made out there on numerous streaming platforms and will be seen on Hulu within the US.
Depp’s uncommon purple carpet look comes weeks after a Virginia choose dominated the actor might proceed with urgent libel prices in opposition to Heard over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed that the ‘Aquaman’ star penned claiming she had been a sufferer of home violence throughout their marriage.
Depp has claimed that Heard’s accusations have resulted in him being “blacklisted” by Hollywood, which he believes to be the rationale his newest movie, ‘Minamata’, has but to open in US theatres. The Oscar nominee and Heard have been married from 2015 to 2017 and have been embroiled in a nasty divorce continuing that included quite a few allegations of abuse.
As per Page Six, the exes have each denied mistreating one another, although they acknowledged in a joint assertion in 2016 that their “relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile.”
