Cannes Boss Thierry Fremaux Confronts Johnny Depp Backlash, Rejects Claim the Fest Is for Rapists: 'Would You Be Here If You Thought' That?
by “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” actor Adele Haenel in an open letter published last week in Telerama.
“She didn’t think that when she came to Cannes unless she suffered from a crazy dissonance,” Fremaux said. “People use Cannes to talk about certain issues and it’s normal because we give them a platform. “If Johnny Depp had been banned from acting in a film, or the film was banned we wouldn’t be here talking about it. So we saw Maiwenn’s film and it could have been in competition. She would have been the eighth female director,” said Fremaux. “This [controversy] came up once the film was announced at Cannes because everybody knew Johnny had made a film in France…I don’t know why she chose him but it’s a question you should ask Maiwenn.
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