{"id":47348,"date":"2025-07-08T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47348\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:46:08","slug":"johnny-depp-reflects-on-being-ousted-as-fantastic-beasts-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47348\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp Reflects on Being Ousted as Fantastic Beasts Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Fantastic Beasts<\/strong><\/a> actor Johnny Depp<\/strong><\/a> has opened up about being ousted from the Harry Potter<\/strong><\/a> spin-off series roughly five years after the incident.<\/p>\n

Depp\u2019s involvement in the Fantastic Beasts franchise began with the first movie, 2016\u2019s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which ended with the surprising reveal that Colin Farrell\u2019s Percival Graves had really been a disguised Gellert Grindelwald (Depp) all along. <\/p>\n

Depp reprised his role as the infamous dark wizard for the 2018 sequel, The Crimes of Grindelwald, and was originally set to return for 2023\u2019s The Secrets of Dumbledore<\/a>. However, he was asked to leave the franchise in November 2020 by Warner Bros.<\/a> This was due to negative publicity which stemmed from the libel case Depp brought against News Group Newspapers Ltd over domestic abuse allegations from ex-wife Amber Heard.<\/p>\n

What was Johnny Depp\u2019s response to being ousted from Harry Potter?<\/p>\n

Now, almost five years later, Depp has reflected on being asked to resign the role of Grindelwald during an interview with The Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cListen, they\u2019ve said all kinds of things out there in the world about me, and it doesn\u2019t bother me. I\u2019m not running for office. It literally stopped in a millisecond, like, while I was doing the movie. They said we\u2019d like you to resign. But what was really in my head was they wanted me to retire,\u201d Depp recalled.<\/p>\n

After being asked to share what his response to that request was at the moment, Depp remarked, \u201cF*** you. There\u2019s far too many of me to kill. If you think you can hurt me more than I\u2019ve already been hurt you\u2019re gravely mistaken.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few weeks after Depp was reported not to be returning for The Secrets of Dumbledore, Mads Mikkelsen was cast as Grindelwald. Ultimately, Depp dodged a bullet by not appearing in the third Fantastic Beasts movie, as it received largely negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure, grossing just over $400 million worldwide to become the lowest-grossing installment in the Wizarding World franchise.<\/p>\n

Following The Secrets of Dumbledore, Warner Bros. opted to reboot the franchise for the small screen, with a new adaptation of J.K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter book series in development for HBO.<\/p>\n

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