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At first you had to wonder if they w out the clock. Twenty minutes after the Cannes Festival news conference for Jeanne du Bar supposed to begin Wednesday, neither the actress-director, Maïwenn, nor her lead act Depp, had actually shown up.

Were they hoping to avoid questions? Fo who was accused of spitting on a journalist ary, and Depp, who recently won a defama against his ex-wife Amber Heard after she legations of physical and sexual abuse, que their personal scandals could overwhelm a the movie they were meant to promote. Bo been in attendance the previous night whe du Barry opened the festival, but Cannes p are famously fawning and conclude with a standing ovation. Meeting the press would different matter.

Depp, who has not starred in a major Ho film in five years, had already missed the m photo call for Jeanne du Barry, a French-lan ma in which he plays Louis XV opposite Ma titular courtesan. It fell to Maïwenn to shou that appointment alone, and 25 minutes aft film’s press conference was meant to start, entered the media room with her leading m nowhere to be found.

At first, she talked around his absence, re that she had originally offered Depp’s role t French actors, who passed. Eventually, she out to Depp, reasoning that his nationality important than her other concerns: “I want strongly about the actor, particularly as I w hugging and kissing him later on.”

Questions to Maïwenn were mostly kept minimum, and none were about her alterca French journalist Edwy Plenel, who said M spat on him in a Paris restaurant — somethi