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Johnny Depp says the industry used him as the #MeToo test case ... likening himself to a "crash test dummy" in a rambling new interview.

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00:00We've got to get into Johnny Depp, who says he was the Me Too lab rat.

00:06I mean, this is kind of crazy.

00:08I didn't realize this.

00:10Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in 2016?

00:14Right, and you think of the Me Too thing, Harvey Weinstein was 2018, so he was ahead of that.

00:19How could that be almost 10 years ago?

00:21Yeah, it's crazy.

00:22But anyway, Johnny says that when Amber accused him, got a restraining order against him,

00:29and you know, ultimately, Johnny Depp won in that battle royale in court against Amber Heard.

00:36But he had some things to say about him and the Me Too movement.

00:40Yeah, and I'll tell you what hurts.

00:42There are people, and I'm thinking of three, who did me dirty.

00:46Those people were at my kids' parties, throwing them in the air.

00:49I understand people who could not stand up because the most frightening thing to them was making the right choice.

00:55I was pre-Me Too.

00:56I was like a crash test dummy for Me Too.

00:59It was before Harvey Weinstein.

01:02It sounds like he did this in the Times.

01:05It sounds like he was, he sounds almost proud of it.

01:09I was, I did this before Harvey Weinstein.

01:12I mean, it's weird.

01:13Well, but the way he was impacted, and it took him so many years to sort of clear his name.

01:18Well, it did.

01:19His career is still not back to what it was at that point.

01:22But he undeniably won.

01:24Well, you know, but part of it is age.

01:26You know, I get it.

01:27But part of it is just that he got a lot older, and Johnny Depp is not the Johnny Depp we remember from Pirates.

01:34And, you know, who knows?

01:37If he would have lost that case, he'd be done.

01:39Right.

01:40And Amber is now in Spain.

01:43So he won the case.

01:47I'm not sure anybody really won the war.

01:49I thought he was going to have more of a career resurgence after that case because it got so much attention.

01:53Harvey, it's kind of funny you said that you don't think anyone won the war.

01:56But actually, I think Johnny did kind of win the war because, like you guys said, had he lost that case, no one would have touched him.

02:03No one would have worked with him.

02:04He's already working on new projects.

02:06He's already in talks to join other projects that he's been a part of before.

02:10So I feel like maybe he does feel super vindicated to the point where, yeah, he can go out in the Times and say, I was used as a dummy.

02:17But look, I overcame everything, and I'm going to get back to where I am.

02:21My name is Christine.

02:22I'm from Philly.

02:23And this whole situation, it seems a bit weird.

02:26I don't know.

02:27I don't think he should have said that, especially if he wasn't too familiar, or unless he was just familiar.

02:32But, yeah, that's just my opinion.

02:34Well, it's on brand for Johnny Depp.

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