Johnny Depp was overcome with emotion as his film received a standing ovation at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.
Variety uploaded a video on social media of an obviously affected Depp during a seven-minute standing ovation for his film "Jeanne du Barry," in which he plays the French King Louis XV, reports CNN.
It was the actor's first film role since a defamation trial last summer involving his ex-wife Amber Heard. In their defamation cases against one other, a jury held them both responsible for slander, but awarded Depp substantially more damages, it said.
At the film's Cannes press conference, Depp discussed “abstract whispers” and said that “the majority of what you have been reading the last four or five years…with regard to me and my life what you’ve read is fantastically, horrifically written fiction.”
"Jeanne du Barry" chronicles the narrative of Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, also known as Madame du Barry, who was King Louis XV's mistress.
Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux told Deadline in April that the decision to launch the festival with the Depp feature was because it is "a beautiful film."
“The opening film also has to come out simultaneously in French cinemas; we don’t put platform films in that slot, because we want France to participate in the festival,” Frémaux said. “The film is a success, and Johnny Depp [as Louis XV] is magnificent in it.”