Maiwenn, director of Johnny Depp’s Jeanne du Barry, sued for allegedly assaulting journalist
Maiwenn also stars in the Cannes-opening film as the titular Jeanne
Aux News Maiwenn
Johnny Depp’s new film, Jeanne du Barry, continues to be a lightning rod for controversy, with Variety reporting today that the film’s star and director—the mononomial actor and filmmaker Maiwenn—has now been sued for allegedly assaulting a journalist in France. A police report about the incident was filed back in early March, but leaked today, just days after the Cannes film festival announced that it’d be opening this year with the premiere of the film.
The complaint against Maiwenn was lodged by Edwy Plenel, editor-in-chief of Mediapart magazine, who says that Maiwenn assaulted him at a restaurant in late February of this year. According to Plenel, Maiwenn saw him at the restaurant and, without saying a word, “came to his table and grabbed him by the hair before spitting in his face.” (No motive has been given for the alleged attack, although Variety notes that Mediapart has done some in-depth reporting on allegations of sexual misconduct against Maiwenn’s ex-husband, Luc Besson.) No word yet on what steps are being taken to pursue the complaint.
Meanwhile: Jeanne du Barry rolls along; the film is based on the life of the historical figure of the same name, the mistress of King Louis XV of France. (He’s the one in between The Really Famous One, Louix XIV, and The One Who Got His Head Chopped Off, Louis XVI, FYI.) Depp plays the aging king, while Maiwenn plays Jeanne, a working-class woman who achieves considerable status by catching the eye of the monarch. The film is Depp’s first major acting role in several years; Maiwenn cast him while he was still in the midst of losing a defamation trial against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, in the U.K., and winning a subsequent one in the United States.
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She also played the diva in The Fifth Element, although she didn’t sing.
Also the prostititue in the first shootup scene in Leon.
I mean, if this happened in a restaurant, with witnesses, then it probably happened. You can’t do that to people. She should pay for it. And fuck Johnny Depp.
Exactly. Heard should have been fucking Depp instead of shitting the bed
they have literal text messages that it was the dog who shat the bed. Depp probz tried to fuck the dog tho.
Hey look, bonehead doesn’t know what Gaslighting is! Chill out Amber, go flip burgers or something. Your career is dunzo!
“literal text messages” That sounds like incontrovertible proof if i’ve ever heard it.
You wouldn’t know proof if it sat on your face (not that anyone would ever do something like that with you)
Fat ass
Just one more woman laughing at you.
A fat woman.
Laughing at a fat ugly man.
I’m a lot of things, but fat isn’t one of them.
Ew you’re probably bald too! Gross! Fat ugly and bald. No wonder you’re so ornery!
Nope. In fact a woman I slept with recently made a comment about how I specifically don’t have a receding hairline.
Bald
Right you keep saying that but it’s not true. Unlike you being fat, which I think we both know is 100% true. Especially considering how much it wigs you out when I say it lol.
lol whatever you say chromedome
Correct. LolWhy don’t you just admit you’re fat? You haven’t even denied it – probably because even thinking about it fills you with shame and sadness.
LMAO ugly bald men and their little stories
Lol i’m 6’1, 31 years old and I work in hollywood. Literally nothing you could say would bother me in the least. Because i’m not a complete failure at life like you.
LMAO the tears of a bald man
i love your account man. you’ve been trying to troll for so long, but the only things you can come up with are the decade-old “SO BRAVE” meme that no one under 50 has used in years, or just saying “fat,” “ugly,” and “no one likes you” – the insults of choice for 4 year olds. so are you a boomer or a toddler? either way, i know you’re typing this with two fingers and it takes a while, but you should try to put more effort in. try to be funny or something, i don’t know, but you should be better at this by now.
Ok.
^and the need to reply even when you have nothing to say just makes it look like every comment gets under your skin (and given that you’re still impersonating another user that triggered you months ago, that’s a pretty safe bet). toodles retard.
Are you unaware that you’re also replying with nothing to say? People like you seem to pathologically need to feel like they have the moral high ground. It’s really sad. You don’t matter. Nothing you’ve ever said or done in your life has mattered. Tomorrow morning you’ll wake up and you still won’t matter.
I absolutely have the moral high ground over someone who spends hours a week mocking others on the internet with pre-k insults and Reddit memes, almost everyone does. You’re pretty low on the totem pole, and you’re still not able to come up with anything fresh despite trying so hard, it’s just so pathetic and weird.
I’m well aware that you believe that lol. And it’s probably good that you do, because otherwise you’d probably kill yourself.
Keep trying champ, you’ll come up with a 3rd insult one day.And yes, I do believe in objective reality! Show your mass-shooter comment history to anyone you know IRL and they’d come to the same conclusion, which you already know.
Again – I believe that you believe that. The fact that you take pride in being a frequently contributing member to the avclub is honestly one of the saddest things I can imagine. Also funny that you equate someone telling you that you’re an idiot online to being a “mass shooter”. Really telling stuff.
The fact that you take pride in being a frequently contributing member to the avclub is honestly one of the saddest things I can imagine.Where’d I say that?
I don’t think you realize what a revealing comment this is lmao. Amber Heard is a bad woman who didn’t give her husband enough sex? Johnny Depp *deserves* sex with hot chicks because he’s a cool guy? It’s a wife’s duty to fuck her husband as much as he wants? You just revealed so much about your attitudes towards women in one sentence without even trying lol
Just like you and your mom.
“Maiwenn saw him at the restaurant and, without saying a word, “came to his table and grabbed him by the hair before spitting in his face.””“I don’t see what the problem is.” – Harry Styles.
I can understand someone sifting through all the muck and allegations and counter-allegations in the Depp/Heard trials and deciding to give Depp the benefit of the doubt and still hire him. I don’t agree with it, but I can understand it.But why on earth would you choose the movie with his first major starring role after those trials to open your prestigious film festival?Maybe it’s because I’m not an industry insider, but this certainly looks to me like Cannes is sending a message with this selection…
They’re French, lol.
The French just love abuse, they’re quirky like that
The Really Famous One, Louix XIV,I’ve never heard of this “Louix.” What’s he famous for? Being clever for replacing the S with an X?
It’s actually “Lou the 9th-14th,” you uncultured sow.
She was 15 when she and Besson started dating, 16 when they got married, almost 17 when their daughter was born. Her assaulting someone from a magazine that reported on the allegations against Besson would be the fucked-up cherry on the top of a fucked-up sundae.
You’re sooooooo brave
Kill yourself
Huh, birds of a feather I guess.
He was the worstSince Louis the first
That’s why the people are revolting, ‘cause Louie,
You’re pretty revolting yourself!