Johnny Depp Makes Surprise Comic-Con Appearance For ‘Ebenezer’ Movie
Johnny Depp stole the highlight at Comic-Con on Thursday, showing in full Scrooge costume for his upcoming Ti West-directed film Ebenezer.
The look at this time by the three-time Oscar nominee got here as a part of a stunt wherein the David Ellison-owned paramount Pictures fired up a fake Eighties British Christmas village in San Diego’s Gaslamp district.
Depp emerged from the door of the set up and addressed the gang, which had been gathering on the road in entrance of the set up for greater than an hour. They shouted questions and supplied greetings, together with “Good day to you, Mr. Scrooge.” I responded in full character, “What’s so good about it?”
The stunt started with Victorian carolers rising singing Christmas songs, after which Depp-as-Scrooge appeared within the window of the mock storefront. He then emerged from the door. Later, one other character in Dickensian interval garb started asking him about honest wages, which drew solely grumbles from Scrooge.
The second was peppered all through by the gang shouting issues like “We love you” to Depp, who stayed in character your complete time — together with some form of nostril prosthetic.
Before he left, he quietly stated “Humbug” to the gang.
Johnny Depp as Scrooge on Thursday within the Gaslamp district
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The newest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ basic Christmas story hits theaters November 13.
Motion image advertising execs cry in regards to the oxygen being sucked out of San Diego Comic-Con by rival studios, even when Disney’s Hall H Marvel panel is among the final hoorahs to go down Saturday evening. But alongside comes Depp this afternoon for a mic-drop second, showing shortly after DC’s Jim Lee panel that featured a have a look at James Watkins’ upcoming movie Clayface. It simply goes to indicate you do not at all times want a Q&A panel at SDCC with actors and photographs to get consideration; at all times higher to zag then zig in your advertising.
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By our depend, at this time marked Depp’s third time at San Diego Comic-Con; Previously, he went full-on guerrilla theater on the 2018’s Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald panel, the place he confirmed up because the headline character score about freedom and reality. (An hour later that yr, his ex-wife Amber Heard appeared at Warner Bros. Aquaman panel, in what was heralded by the media as a bizarre second. At the time, Heard had settled a $7 million divorce with Depp, wherein she first accused him of bodily abuse, solely to dismiss the claims in a 2016 settlement.)
Depp additionally appeared at SDCC in 2009 for Disney’s Tim Burton film Alice in Wonderland.
It’s par for the course for Depp to indicate up in character. In a 2013 interview with E.W. he revealed that he carried his Jack Sparrow Pirates of the Caribbean costume with him so he could make shock visits to youngsters’s hospitals.
Here’s extra from the scene within the Gaslamp:
Following his 2022 defamation battle with Heard over a Washington Post op-ed wherein she wrote about being a sufferer of home abuse, Depp confirmed up at Cannes 2023 to do press for his opening-night movie Jeanne du Barry. Since then, Depp has turn out to be extra seen in public since then, ie, exhibiting up on the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival and at CinemaCon in April to promote Ebenezer.
It was at Cannes three years in the past the place Deadline requested Depp whether or not he nonetheless felt boycotted by Hollywood, statements he expressed in an August 2021 Sunday Times interview.
He answered“Did I really feel a boycott by Hollywood? Well, you’d must not have a pulse to really feel at that time, ‘None of that is occurring, it is only a bizarre joke or I’ve been asleep for 35 years.’ Of course, whenever you’re requested to resign from a movie you are doing, due to one thing that’s merely a bunch of sort of vowels and consonants floating within the air, you’re feeling a boycott.”
He additionally added, “Do I feel a boycott now? No, not at all. I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much further need for Hollywood myself,” he added. “I think it’s a very strange, funny time where everyone wants to be themselves, but they can’t, they must fall in line, conform — and if you want to lead this life, I’ll be on the other side.”
It was clear at this time along with his Comic-Con look that, certainly, Depp and Hollywood nonetheless want one another.
