Johnny Depp decries ‘cancel culture’
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Taking center stage in a prestigious Spanish film festival to receive a top career award, actor Johnny Depp presented himself as a victim of the “cancel culture” that, he said, has spread across the cinema industry.
Depp was addressing questions on Wednesday by reporters at the San Sebastian International Film Festival about the loss of Hollywood’s favor for new roles ever since his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, went public with allegations of domestic violence against him.
A British judge last year found the allegations to be “substantially correct.”
“It’s a very complex situation, this cancelculture, or this instant rush to judgment based on essentially what amounts to polluted air,” the 58-year-old actor responded. “It’s got so far out of hand that I can assure you, no one is safe. Not one of you, so long as someone is willing to say one thing.”
Female filmmakers and other groups had criticized the decision to distinguish Depp with the Donostia Award, the festival’s highest honor, saying it delivered the wrong message to victims of gender violence.
Many migrants staying in U.S. even as expulsion flights rise
DEL RIO, Texas — Many Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, are being released in the United States, according to two U.S. officials, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion to Haiti. Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, one official said late Tuesday. The official put the figure in the thousands.
Many have been released with notices to appear at an immigration office within 60 days.