The aging process is kind to no one, and that includes Johnny Depp.
On May 16, Depp was in Cannes to walk the red carpet for the festival’s opening-night film, Maïwenn’s misunderstood-mistress extravaganza in which Depp plays King Louis XV, whose devotion to his favorite extramarital squeeze brought scandal upon Versailles. When it was announced that a Depp film would be opening the festival, murmurs of were heard far beyond the kingdom, though perhaps not so much in France: the festival itself has opened its arms wide to Depp, who hasn’t exactly been untouched by controversy in the past few years, given his involvement in two high-profile defamation suits connected with allegations that he physically abused
