JB Lacroix
A couple hours before the premiere of Johnny Depp’s feature film, Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness at the San Sebastian Film Festival, it hit me how much of a splash Depp’s presence would really make.
By then, I’d watched Depp swagger alongside wolves in a Dior perfume ad that played on loop at the airport. I’d seen his face plastered across A1 stories in Spanish newspapers in the town center. And I’d read an interview with the director of the San Sebastian Film Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, in which he declared, “Johnny Depp for us is a festival friend,” before adding, “It’s not up to me to say if someone is an abuser.”
But it was not until I was window shopping at a denim store that I got it. Spying my festival lanyard and press badge, the twentysomething saleswoman’s eyes grew wide. “You will see the movie of Jack Sparrow?” she gushed.
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