The actor, 58, met Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday, the place he was awarded a gold medal for ‘excellent deserves in public and cultural actions, particularly within the discipline of movie artwork and the promotion of the Republic of Serbia on this planet’.
Depp acquired the brand new award on Serbia’s Statehood Day, which commemorates the Serbian Revolution towards Ottoman rule within the early 1800’s.
In addition to the actor, plenty of veterans from the Kosovan warfare, and political representatives, had been additionally honoured on the ceremony.
Talking through the ceremony, Depp stated he was proud to obtain the award and thanked the president for his ‘kindness’, BalkanInsightexperiences.
He stated: ‘I really, sincerely thanks, President Vucic, and this medal of advantage, if I'm given the honour to stroll away with this, I thanks for being type sufficient to bestow it upon me.’
Depp has lengthy had a very shut relationship with Serbia for plenty of years: in 2010, a life-size statue of the actor was unveiled within the village of Drvengrad, which hosts the Kustendorf movie competition.
The actor flew to Serbia to go to the competition and see his statue in individual, and met then-president Boris Tadic.
And simply final yr, he met the present Serbian president for the primary time throughout a go to to the nation to advertise Serbian-produced animated sequence Puffins, during which he has a starring position.
In addition to Amazon Prime’s Puffins sequence, Depp filmed 2020 drama Minamata within the nation’s capital, Belgrade.
Depp’s award comes nearly two years because the actor took a step again from the highlight after shedding his libel case towards The Solar in 2020.
He sued in relation to a column which appeared in 2018 which branded him a ‘spouse beater’, and denied all allegations of home violence, however misplaced the libel case in November 2020.
Alice in Wonderland actor Depp additionally stepped down from his position as Gellert Grindelwald within the Unbelievable Beasts films, with Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen changing him within the upcoming third installment, The Secrets and techniques of Dumbledore.
Nevertheless the actor has nonetheless been receiving honours for his profession, and in 2020 accepted the award for actor with distinctive visible sensitivity from Polish cinematography competition EnergaCamerimage.
In a letter on the time, the actor stated he was ‘honoured and humbled’ to be recognised by the competition.
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