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I know it's a serious topic, but if/when Depp's career survives this, due to the wealth of bizarre moments, he will have so much material for future characters. He could play a muffin obsessed psychologist, that glitches out during questioning.
Where do they find these so-called professionals?
It all depends on one's willingness to condescend with their word parsing, or one's comfort with being disingenuous with potential victims. This of course varies from person to person. Personally, if someone says they believe an account I've given, I like to think they consider the account to be true.
This post I'm quoting is just baiting to start an argument as per usual, I'm not interested: try someone else.
Nearly a dozen sources say the ‘No Time to Die’ director repeatedly crossed professional lines, using his sets to openly pursue much younger female cast and crew members
https://rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/cary-fukunaga-no-time-to-die-1359656/
https://indiewire.com/2022/05/cary-fukunaga-accused-inappropriate-behavior-1234722624/
IndieWire have picked up the story.
I would do anything for the opportunity to prove that today’s filmmakers bathing in big budgets/salaries are overrated. So much so that I have a hard time imagining temporary employees with reputations on the line trying to hook up with random colleagues.
I’d be happy if he is out of play for B26 because I think NTTD sucked badly, but I don’t care what happens to him otherwise.
But with this one I just couldn’t even be bothered to give it a second chance. Maybe I’ll watch it again at some point. But have no interest at the moment. In fact I don’t care to see any Bonds any time soon.
It hasn’t waned. But being a filmmaker myself I realise the endless possibilities and the lack of creative vision to end up with that.
I watched FRWL the other day, and in the gipsy camp two women fight over wanting to marry the same man, Bond gets to sleep with both at the same time to determine who will be the bride. (Extremely far fetched)
Whatever Bond has, Cary ain’t got it. “Incest is fine if everyone is ok with it” is the worst pickup line I have ever heard in my life.
Forget it, @Benjamin_Weekly69. It's Chinatown.
There's indeed no indication in the article that he's committed any crime. And it appears that he's "smart" enough to target women of legal age. I don't think there will be any civil action. It's just that there are some recurring patterns in his behaviour aimed at vulnerable women that show he's not simply a jerk, but someone who's actively manipulative and harmful towards young women when he works on a specific project.
It's definitely not enough to bring him to court, maybe not even to the court of public opinion, but it's more than enough for many decision makers to prefer not working with him because he doesn't bring enough to the table to justify the toxic conditions he creates on a set.
Yet, David O. Russell (who's at best a temperamental jerk) and a few others are still active.
Being a manipulative jerk doesn't get a director canceled. Being notoriously difficult and taxing doesn't get a director canceled (otherwise, David Fincher would be done with the industry). But the combination of the two, even if you're talented, can be enough to send you into director's purgatory, where you only get offered DTV films shot in Romania or Bulgaria and starring Steven Seagal (as Bruce Willis is now retired).
Fukunaga had some kind of a bad rep with his collaborators, he got a major opportunity with directing a Bond film, he could have cleaned up his act, and his darker impulses still got the better of him. He still tried to use this newfound fame in ways that are mostly evocative of a petty pick up artist, while posing as a male feminist. Definitely not the best idea.
Yeah, you just wouldn't bother, would you? If you're a producer in charge you don't want the hassle of some kind of abuse case potentially happening on set, with people walking out and suing each other and just generally causing issues; and if you're a more on-the-ground person, you just don't want to work with someone who seems to be a dick. I think someone mentioned these stories have been circulating for a while, so I guess maybe that process had started already.
Due to his sudden popularity in the "court of public opinion", Johnny Depp may become one of the first big names who got "cancelled" by studios and then "reinstated" as it were by ardent fans. Not sure Fukunaga will ever receive the same goodwill, should he need it, that is. He's just not big enough for that. Depp's charisma is all over the place; fans would regret not having him around. I doubt that Fukunaga shares the same fan love...
He had turned into a very capricious actor, with constant requests, causing production delays with the budgets ballooning, while he was extremely professional on his early parts. He would be late on set, hadn't learnt his lines for the day, etc. He wasn't reliable for promo too. And his fee was still high. That's why he started to lose parts.
He pushed for a Lone Ranger movie, which lost money. Outside of established franchises, he mostly had duds (remember Mordecai?).
I'm definitely not an Amber Heard supporter, and I have no idea about how much of a wreck she is outside a film set, but she's there on time, she's in good shape, having trained for weeks, and she does her part as she's supposed to do.
Otherwise, Scorsese, Snyder, Rian Johnson, the Coens (including solo) or Ridley Scott are all developing projects for streaming, and all very much not cancelled.