Chinese actors, if there is immorality or illegal behavior, will be spurned by domestic audiences, and will also be banned by the entertainment industry. Film and television drama works starring him will not be released or broadcast, and no film and television company will invite him to star in his own works in the future.
In fact, this situation does not only exist in Chinese mainland, in Hollywood, if an actor has immorality or illegal behavior, his acting career will also be affected, even if it is a first-line superstar.
American actor Johnny Depp is the most box office appeal actor in the world. The films starring him have already exceeded $10 billion in the worldwide cumulative total box office. Starring him, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is also one of the most successful film series in the world.
However, it is such a world-renowned superstar actor who was fired from multiple Hollywood crews in 2020 for "domestic violence incidents".
Produced by Warner Pictures, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the most outstanding magic series in all aspects after Harry Potter. In this series of movies, the first villain, The Dark Wizard Grindelwald, is played by Johnny Depp.
The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series has now reached its third installment, The Mystery of Dumbledore, and at the beginning the film's villain Grindelwald originally wanted Johnny Depp to portray it, but when his "domestic violence incident" was confirmed, the role was directly replaced by danish actor Mads Mickelson.
Also, after Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Or Not, Disney intends to reboot the series, but they say they won't use Johnny Depp again.
Being fired from the crew is not the biggest impact on Johnny Depp, and it is a headache that a work that has already been filmed cannot be released.
In October 2020, "Minamata Disease", starring Johnny Depp, announced that it would be released in North America on February 5 this year, and it was later said that the film was withdrawn due to the epidemic.
But in July, Andrew Levitas, the director of "Minamata Disease," began to criticize the film's distributor MGM for hiding the film because of the "domestic violence incident" of the male protagonist Depp. He said he "doesn't understand why an actor's private life is more important than the suffering of an industrial pollution victim."
The film Minamata Disease is based on the real events of a strange disease caused by mercury pollution that broke out in Japan in 1956, and it mainly reflects environmental problems. In the film, Johnny Depp plays a photographer.
Now that 2021 has entered December, the publisher MGM has finally determined the schedule of "Minamata Disease" in North America.
MGM announced that "Minamata" will begin screening in North America on December 15 this year and begin large-scale screenings in North America in January next year.
The fact that Johnny Depp starred in a film that can now be finalized in North America seems to indicate that he has been forgiven by Hollywood. In this way, I hope that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which Disney Pictures will restart in the future, will continue to use Johnny Depp and let him continue to play Captain Jack.