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Johnny Depp’s upcoming honor at the San Sebastian Film Festival is receiving backlash from female filmmakers.
“This speaks very badly of the festival and its leadership and transmits a terrible message to the public: ‘It doesn’t matter if you are an abuser as long as you are a good actor,'” Andreu told the AP.
Andreu added the association, which has close ties to the festival, is “studying next steps.”
The Donostia Award aims to honor lifetime achievements in film. The San Sebastian Film Festival announced that Depp would be this year’s recipient on Monday, describing the actor as “one of contemporary cinema’s most talented and versatile actors.” Depp is meant to be presented with the award on Wednesday, Sept. 22.
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Depp attended the festival last year to presentCrock of Gold: A Few Roundswith Shane McGowan. He also attended in 1998 with hisFear and Loathing in Las Vegasdirector Terry Gilliam.
Recent recipients of the award include Depp’sBlowcostar Penélope Cruz, Ethan Hawke, Sigourney Weaver, Viggo Mortensen and Dame Judi Dench.
The honor comes amid Depp’s ongoing $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard for her 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she wrote about surviving domestic violence.
In their divorce finalization in 2017, theAquamanactress was granted a $7 million settlement which she said she pledged to the ACLU and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Last week, a New York judge granted the actor permission to determine whether Heard had donated to the ACLU. The organization has been asked to release the documents to confirm.
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“We produced the documents from the ACLU on how much she has. She has always said she fully intends to continue to give the full $7 million, but she can’t do it yet. She will do it when she can. But she has given a significant amount to both,” Bredehoft added of Heard, in part.
Depp recentlyexited the roleof dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in theHarry Potterspinoff series,Fantastic Beasts, after losing the libel suit againstThe Sun.
source: people.com
