It will be presented at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival on May 16.
Jeanne du Barry
, the sixth feature film directed by Maïwenn, is the first film in which Johnny Depp has played since his resounding trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The actor embodies King Louis XV alongside the filmmaker, who slips into the role of his mistress.
In an interview with
Harper's Bazaar,
published this Thursday, April 27, the latter thus delivered on her collaboration with the actor, not always easy.
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"It was intense, sometimes tumultuous, but I'm used to it," said Maïwenn, while remaining vague.
With stars of this caliber, moreover inhabited like him, there are tremendous pros and cons.
You take the package, it's part of the pact.
It must be said that the director of 47 years has often rubbed shoulders with personalities known for their temperament.
Among which JoeyStarr, with whom she had collaborated on the film
Polisse.
The two were in a relationship between 2009 and 2011. From the father of Lily-Rose Depp, she highlights the talent and charisma on the screen.
“I saw from the start that almost without doing anything, he still had something of incredible power, she added about the interpreter of
Pirates of the Caribbean
.
When he enters a room, he is the king”.
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Knock Knock
On April 22, Maïwenn, mother of Shanna (from her union with Luc Besson) and Diego (with Jean-Yves Le Fur), also remembered an unusual scene that occurred on the set, in the columns of
First
.
“Johnny is a star, a king… and an American!
I had been told that, to warn him that we were waiting for him to shoot a scene, I could not go and knock on the door of his dressing room, ”she explained.
The scenario writer, who does not miss character either, was however not embarrassed to go there, whereas her team was impatient: That is how a plate works in France
.
An initiative that did not please the actor, the latter crying scandal in the face of such an affront.
Johnny Depp has, however, agreed to certain compromises.
"He was making an effort, even if I saw that it was costing him," the actress and director had continued with the magazine.
And to add: “I understood that in the United States, the stars are not really directed.
They explain to the director how they are going to play the scene and the director follows the movement.
But in France, the boss is the director.
So with each take, I obviously shot his proposal, but I also asked him to interpret mine to have a choice during the editing.
And on that, he really played the game.
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