In this humorous video, the Hollywood star is interviewed at the Gellért Hotel in Budapest about why he hasn’t won an award at the Czech Film Festival yet.
From 30 June to 8 July, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the region’s most prestigious film event, will take place. As is tradition, this year’s trailer for the 57th edition of the film festival was unveiled at the opening ceremony over the weekend. Directed by Ivan Zachariáš, a well-known advertising and film director, the few-minute short film stars no lesser star than Johnny Depp, who rose from the ashes this year as a phoenix after his long and ugly public divorce. The actor was working in Europe at the time of the planned shoot, so he briefly popped over to Budapest, where the scene was filmed in the magnificent Art Nouveau Gellért Hotel, which is currently undergoing renovation. He didn’t even have to rehearse too much in advance for the shoot, which lasted about two and a half hours, according to the director: "Right at the start of the shoot he told me that he would prefer to improvise,” said Zachariáš. “I was initially a bit taken aback, but it turned out to be a great idea since Johnny ended up putting even more of his own personality into the trailer." Depp probably took the role out of gratitude, as the festival’s management has stood by the actor throughout—even when he was being dismissed from major productions—and he was made the film festival’s guest of honor in 2021.
The full program of the festival is available here.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Cover Photo: International Film Festival Karlovy Vary
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