That everyone accepted this framing, that she âruined his careerâ, makes me so fucking furious. It doesnât hold up to an ounce of scrutiny once you think about it for more than two goddamn seconds:
Hollywood does not care about abuse allegations! Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Sean Penn, they all had thriving careers even after their crimes became known to the public.
Depp became known for being excessively difficult to work with. Heâd show up to set late, heâd show up high, heâd show up drunk, he stopped memorizing his lines and needed them fed through an earpiece! He also violently assaulted a crew member. All this probably would have been fine with The Execs, butâŚ
Depp-fronted movies werenât making money! The Lone Ranger bombed, Pirates 4 and 5 drastically under performed, Transcendence flopped, Crimes of Grindelwald flopped, there are like 4 other movies he starred in that flopped so hard I canât even remember them! He stopped being a reliable moneymaker, which is the only thing Hollywood really cares about.
If anyone âruinedâ his career besides himself, it was this 2018 Rolling Stone piece that revealed all his unhinged behavior to the public. But he didnât sue Stephen Rodrick, he didnât sue Rolling Stone, he didnât sue the ACLU (they admitted to ghostwriting Heardâs op-ed), he didnât sue the Washington Post for publishing it, he sued his victim. He did so in a Virginia court to take advantage of weak laws against frivolous lawsuits and he had it live streamed so that not only would she be forced to relive his abuse and assault of her in front of the entire world, but also so he could sic his vicious stans on her.
In contrast, he has done immeasurable damage to her career. She was a solid performer on the rise when they met and studios are going to regard her as toxic for years, regardless of her talent, the truth of the allegations, anything. She escaped Depp and he has spent the last 7 years abusing her via the legal system. He made legions of people complicit in his abuse. He emboldened countless abusers to copy his playbook in silencing their victims.
Fuck the Tiktokers who mocked Heardâs testimony, fuck the YouTubers that made thousands livestreaming the trial, fuck the media that portrayed this as celebrity nonsense, fuck the right wing idealogues that highjacked the discourse, fuck that non-sequestered jury, and fuck anyone who tries to paint themselves as a reasonable centrist with âwell they both sound toxic to meâ.
And oh hey, hereâs a list of celebrities who bought his bullshit hook line and sinker if, like me, youâd rather avoid their work in the future.
stormborns
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areudirty
janainaart
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discoholicmusic
origamiaround
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