The director of San Sebastian Film Festival has defended the choice to present the honorary Donostia Award to Johnny Depp.
The assertion of the accolade raised eyebrows in advance this week after the actor has been embroiled in a string of controversies, along with his failed libel lawsuit in London in opposition to The Sun’s writer over a 2018 headline labeled him a “spouse beater”.
A British judge declared that the claim, which was associated with his ex-spouse and fellow actor Amber Heard, was “appreciably true”.
Earlier in August, Depp then secured an unprecedented criminal victory, after a decision in part granted a petition with the aid of using his criminal group to pressure the American Civil Liberties Union to launch files confirming Heard donated her $7m (£5m) divorce settlement, as she pledged to do in 2016.
On thirteenth August, San Sebastian director José Luis Rebordinos launched an announcement in retaliation to folks who had criticized the competition for its choice.
He added- In those gift times, while lynching on social media is rife, we can usually protect simple concepts which shape a part of our lifestyle and of our frame of laws: that of the presumption of innocence and that of the proper to reintegration.
According to the validated facts which we ought to hand, Johnny Depp has now no longer been arrested, charged nor convicted of any shape of attack or violence in opposition to any woman. We repeat: he has now no longer been charged with the aid of using any authority in any jurisdiction, nor convicted of any shape of violence in opposition to women.
The fallout from Depp’s failed libel lawsuit brought about him stepping far far from his function because the villain, Gellert Grindelwald, withinside the imminent Harry Potter spin-off movie Fantastic Beasts 3.
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