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Johnny Depp stole nan spotlight astatine Comic-Con connected Thursday, appearing successful afloat Scrooge costume for his upcoming Ti West-directed movie Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol.
The quality coming by nan three-time Oscar nominee came arsenic portion of a stunt successful which nan David Ellison-owned Paramount Pictures fired up a faux 1880s British Christmas colony successful San Diego’s Gaslamp district.
Depp emerged from nan doorway of nan installation and addressed nan crowd, which had been gathering connected nan thoroughfare successful beforehand of nan installation. They shouted questions and offered salutations, including “Good time to you, Mr. Scrooge.” He responded successful afloat character, “What’s truthful bully astir it?”
Motion image trading execs outcry astir nan oxygen being sucked retired of San Diego Comic-Con by rival studios, moreover if Disney’s Hall H Marvel panel is 1 of nan past hoorahs to spell down Saturday night. But on comes Depp this day for a mic-drop moment, appearing soon aft DC’s Jim Lee sheet that featured a look astatine James Watkins’ upcoming movie Clayface. It conscionable goes to show you don’t ever request a Q&A sheet astatine SDCC pinch actors and footage to get attention; ever amended to zag past zig successful your marketing.
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By our count, coming marked Depp’s 3rd clip astatine San Diego Comic-Con; previously, he went full-on guerrilla theatre connected nan 2018’s Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald panel, wherever he showed up arsenic nan titular characteristic ranting astir state and truth. (An hr later that year, his ex-wife Amber Heard appeared astatine Warner Bros’ Aquaman panel, successful what was heralded by nan media arsenic a weird moment. At nan time, Heard had settled a $7 cardinal divorcement pinch Depp, successful which she first accused him of beingness abuse, only to disregard nan claims successful a 2016 settlement.)
Depp besides appeared astatine SDCC successful 2009 for Disney’s Tim Burton movie Alice successful Wonderland.
It’s par for nan people for Depp to show up successful character. In a 2013 question and reply pinch EW he revealed that he carried his Jack Sparrow Pirates of nan Caribbean costume pinch him truthful he tin make astonishment visits to children’s hospitals.
Here’s nan segment successful nan Gaslamp:
Following his 2022 defamation conflict pinch Heard complete a Washington Post op-ed successful which she wrote astir being a unfortunate of home abuse, Depp showed up astatine Cannes 2023 to do property for his opening-night movie Jeanne du Barry. Since then, Depp has go much visible successful nationalist since then, i.e., showing up astatine nan 2025 Red Sea Film Festival and at CinemaCon successful April to beforehand Ebenezer, which hits theaters November 13.
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It was astatine Cannes 3 years agone wherever Deadline asked Depp whether he still felt boycotted by Hollywood, statements he expressed successful an August 2021 Sunday Times interview.
He answered, “Did I consciousness a boycott by Hollywood? Well, you’d person to not person a beat to consciousness astatine that point, ‘None of this is happening, it’s conscionable a weird joke aliases I person been dormant for 35 years.’ Of course, erstwhile you’re asked to resign from a movie you’re doing, because of thing that is simply a bunch of benignant of vowels and consonants floating successful nan air, you consciousness a boycott.”
He besides added, “Do I consciousness a boycott now? No, not astatine all. I don’t consciousness boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t deliberation astir Hollywood. I don’t person overmuch further request for Hollywood myself,” he added. “I deliberation it’s a very strange, funny clip wherever everybody wants to beryllium themselves, but they can’t, they must autumn successful line, conform — and if you want to lead this life, I’ll beryllium connected nan different side.”
It was clear coming pinch his Comic-Con quality that, indeed, Depp and Hollywood still request each other.
