The new documentary film, Johnny Depp, Wild Child, aims to delve deeper into the actor’s life, exploring his early years using archive footage, career beginnings, his ultimate rise to fame, and more recently, the numerous issues and scandals that threatened his career and reputation.
Johnny Depp has made the headlines recently, not because of a new blockbuster movie he’s in but because of the controversies that were attached to his name in the recent years, specifically his marriage to Amber Heard, the eventual demise of their relationship, and the he-said-she-said chaos that followed.
After their highly publicised separation and divorce, the former celebrity couple continued to accuse each other of abuse. In the end, Depp successfully sued Heard in the 2022 Depp v. Heard trial where the jury found that Heard’s allegations of “sexual violence” and “domestic abuse” were untrue, hence, defaming Depp under American law.
The documentary special will also reveal the real person behind this intriguing Hollywood star, taking a closer look at the actor whose personal and professional life has been put to the test throughout the years.
Before all this ruckus, Deep was a teen idol in the ’80s and ’90s. He later proved his caliber as a dramatic actor with impressive performances portraying the title role in Donnie Brasco, playing Dean Corso in The Ninth Gate, and starring as a vengeful barber in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
There are dozens of other iconic Johnny Depp roles that have cemented his success, though his most famous character is perhaps Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
