Maiwenn Le Besco, the director of Johnny Depp’s Cannes opening night film “Jeanne du Barry,” has admitted that she spit in the face of an investigative journalist in February.
on March 7, which accused Maiwenn of aggression while he was eating in a restaurant. The director, who was sitting by herself at a nearby table, allegedly grabbed Plenel by the hair and spit in his face, then left the restaurant. Plenel was quoted in the complaint as saying he was “traumatized by the incident.”
“I’ll speak about it when I’m ready,” Maiwenn continued on the talkshow. “I’m very anxious about the release of my film.” As for casting Depp, the filmmaker said: “Very quickly I said, he lost the first trial, he won the second. We could say it was one person’s word against another. I didn’t feel I had the right to judge.”
Maiwenn, who has been a critic of the #MeToo movement, cast Depp to play Louis XV in the opening night film while he was embroiled in the legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard. Maiwenn plays Jeanne du Barry, the king’s love interest, whom he brought to Versailles to live near him although she wasn’t born to the nobility. It co-stars Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Richard, Noemie Lvovsky, Pascal Greggory, India Hair and Melvil Poupaud.
After a series of bombshell stories about Besson, with whom Maiwenn shares a daughter, prosecutors dropped the investigation against him due to lack of evidence.
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