Tim Burton would ‘for sure’ work with frequent collaborator Johnny Depp again

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
Burton is completely satisfied to work with long-time colleague Depp as soon as extra, if the character was proper (Image: Getty)

Tim Burton hasn’t dominated out working with Johnny Depp once more, saying it could be all about if it was the proper ‘character’ for him.

The Hollywood director and the actor have collaborated on quite a few profitable films through the years, together with Edward Scissorhands, Darkish Shadows, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and The Chocolate Manufacturing unit and Sweeney Todd.

The 64-year-old filmmaker has now confirmed he would work with Depp once more if the proper half got here up, regardless of his current high-profile authorized battles along with his ex-wife Amber Heard.

‘If the proper factor was round, positive,’ he replied in a brand new interview.

He added: ‘I by no means do issues for an mental degree, I simply do issues as a result of I wish to do them. I simply take one by one, I've no ‘sure’ or ‘no’.

‘I believe with anyone, you simply – I by no means work with anyone, even with my associates, it’s not like a celebration so I all the time wish to strive with him or anyone to type of go; what's the half? What's the factor? After which is it the proper factor, is it the proper character? I take issues on these foundation [sic] and no others,’ he instructed Reuters.

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
The pair in 2012, selling Darkish Shadows collectively, their final collaboration so far (Image: Jun Sato/WireImage)

Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - 2007
Depp with Alan Rickman in Sweeney Todd, one other Burton manufacturing which additionally featured the director’s now ex-partner Helena Bonham Carter (Image: Peter Mountain/Dreamworks/Warner Bros/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

Depp has lately hit headlines once more following his confirmed involvement with Rihanna’s newest Savage x Fenty trend present, for which he has filmed a particular cameo look.

Years & Years singer and actor Olly Alexander introduced he was ditching carrying the model after the information broke, quickly spreading on social media.

The actor has additionally appealed what his legal professionals branded the ‘inaccurate’ determination that awarded Heard $2million (£1.7m) in damages of their defamation trial.

The previous couple had been embroiled in a six-week trial earlier this yr over an op-ed the Aquaman actress wrote in 2018 about being a sufferer of home violence.

Whereas he wasn’t named within the piece, the actor’s authorized group argued it prompt he was the associate who was bodily and emotionally abusive in direction of her. 

After the unanimous verdict, the place  gained all three of his defamation claims, the Pirates of the Caribbean star was awarded $15m (£13m) in whole, damaged down as $10m (£8.3m) in compensatory damages and $5m (£4m) in punitive damages.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard at the Rum Diary Premiere - London
Depp and Heard had been married for simply over a yr earlier than she filed for divorce (Image: John Phillips/UK Press by way of Getty Photographs)

Nevertheless, this was capped at $350,000 (£293,000) per Virginia state legislation, decreasing the entire to $8.35m (£7m).

In the meantime, Heard was awarded $2m (£1.7m) in compensatory damages after profitable one in all her countersuit claims – and it's this verdict Depp needs to overturn.

The $2m in damages associated to a sequence of statements made by Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, who described Heard’s allegations a few 2016 incident as ‘an ambush, a hoax’. The jury discovered that Depp defamed Heard by way of Waldman.

Nevertheless, within the enchantment temporary from their submitting on November 2, his legal professionals have argued that he shouldn't be held chargeable for Waldman’s feedback.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leave the courtroom for a lunch break at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022
The actors in court docket in Virgina for his or her US defamation battle earlier this yr (Image: Steve Helber/POOL/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Depp’s legal professionals argued in court docket paperwork that, regardless of an ‘emphatic favorable verdict’ for his or her shopper, ‘the trial court docket was confronted with quite a lot of novel and complicated authorized and factual points, and though the trial court docket determined the overwhelming majority of these points sensibly and appropriately, a number of rulings had been inaccurate’.

Depp’s group additionally argued that Heard’s legal professionals gave no proof that he was concerned in making the remarks, and Waldman didn’t witness any interactions between Depp and Heard earlier than he was employed.

The temporary describes Waldman’s statements as the only problem with the decision.

Heard filed to enchantment the decision in July this yr.

A spokesperson for Heard instructed : ‘We imagine the court docket made errors that prevented a simply and honest verdict according to the First Modification.

‘We're subsequently interesting the decision. Whereas we realise as we speak’s submitting will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we have to take to make sure each equity and justice.’

Depp’s spokesperson additionally stated: ‘The jury listened to the intensive proof offered in the course of the six-week trial and got here to a transparent and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr Depp in a number of situations. We stay assured in our case and that this verdict will stand.’

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