At a Venice Film Festival press conference for his new movie Black Mass, a reporter asked Johnny Depp if he was going to take his dogs out for a gondola ride in Italy. “No, I killed my dogs and ate them,” he said, “under direct orders of some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia.” He was joking, of course. Right? Johnny Depp didn’t REALLY eat his dogs?
According to ABCNews:
The joke was a reference to a dispute between the actor and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce earlier this year, when the Hollywood star and wife Amber Heard brought Pistol and Boo to the Gold Coast while Depp filmed the latest Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.
Mr Joyce said the dogs had been illegally imported without meeting Australia’s import conditions and issued an ultimatum that Depp either fly the dogs out of Australia or they would be put down.
“There is a process if you want to bring animals: you get the permits, they go into quarantine and then you can have them,” Mr Joyce said at the time.
“But if we start letting movie stars — even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice — to come into our nation [and break the laws], then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?
“It’s time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States.”
(Photo: Pacific Coast News)
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