Reasons Why Johnny Depp Is Actually A Huge Jerk

Johnny Depp used to be cool, man! His name was synonymous with chiseled cheekbones, rock-star behavior, and interesting and "brave" movie choices, at least by Hollywood's standards. He was (and still is, kind of) the leading man in a huge blockbuster franchise. But the Pirates of the Caribbean movies have become as bloated and lifeless as a corpse dragged from the very sea those swashbucklers sail on. He has become embroiled in scandal after scandal, and Johnny Depp's recent movies are like a photocopy of a photocopy of his once bulletproof quirk-fest formula.

And among other things, it's become increasingly apparent that he… kind of sucks. There are plenty of reasons why Johnny Depp sucks. He's kind of mean, is a jerk, says things that are definitely not PC, and, in general, seems all around unpleasant. While this behavior might not affect Johnny Depp movies of the past, they probably should affect them in the future. Let's take a look at why Johnny Depp is a jerk. 

Depp's spending habits reportedly reach $2 million a month, $30,000 of which he spends on wine. He has paid more than $75 million to buy and maintain 14 homes which include a chain of islands in the Bahamas. Not just one island - a chain. He laid down a huge wad to purchase a 150-foot yacht, and he's spent more than anyone could imagine on fine art. 

Spending hard earned money isn't necessarily a rude thing to do. But when you couple that with refusing to pay a divorce settlement, not paying his managers, living way outside his means, and paying hush money to avoid legal troubles - it is kind of asshole behavior. 

This mark against his character harkens back to his wild, rock-and-roll behavior that defined him in the '90s. Depp was arrested for trashing his hotel room in 1994 and attempted to place the blame on an armadillo he said was hiding in the closet (but was never found). He was staying at The Mark in New York City, and was dating Kate Moss at the time. He had to pay $10,000 for the damages.

The hotel room trashing is quintessential jerk behavior at the hands of someone who has complete disregard for the service industry. Maybe Depp is a tortured soul who needs an outlet for all the rage he's built up being assaulted by cameras. Or he's just an asshole with an imaginary armadillo.

The fault for this shitty behavior falls on both Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp was filming the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in Australia where Heard was supposed to visit, accompanied by their pet terriers Boo and Pistol. Heard had begun the paper work and required rabies shots to get the dogs legally cleared to enter the country, but she fired a staff member who was supposed to be in charge of said paperwork. Despite having clearance, they brought their dogs, which obviously angered Australian authorities. The pair were ordered to remove their dogs from Australia or risk having them put down. 

The decision making process that lead to the dog-smuggling via private jet is unclear, but the pair were caught. Depp made reference to the debacle at the 2015 Venice Film Festival with a bizarre "joke," saying that he "killed and ate his dogs". That's not creepy at all. Heard and Depp went on to film a bizarre YouTube apology about the incident.

Johnny Depp made a spectacularly ignorant statement to Vanity Fair in 2011, claiming that experiencing fame was akin to sexual assault: '"You just feel like you're being raped somehow," he said. "Raped… It feels like a kind of weird… just weird, man."'  Fame is a double-edged sword, for sure. But there's never a need to minimize the actual act of rape by comparing your lack of privacy to it.  

The Lone Ranger's release with mired in controversy surrounding Johnny Depp playing Tonto, a Native American character. Was Depp doing "red-face?" He didn't seem to think so. White actors have a long storied history of playing races other than their own, but only in the past few decades has this practice been vehemently criticized. Depp attempted to justify his choice to play a Native American on screen by claiming he had some distant Cherokee ancestry. He vaguely said his "great grandmother had mostly Cherokee blood." Mostly. Depp and the studio kept his supposed Cherokee heritage vague, never verifying it. Is this cultural appropriation? Probably! We'll have to get a Depp ancestry.com test going to know for sure.  

Depp and his now ex-wife Amber Heard had a tumultuous and ugly divorce racked by scandal and allegations of abuse. Heard photographed bruises and a bloodied lip as evidence, and there were countless testimonies from friends of the couples that said the marriage was unhealthy, and the best course of action was divorce. Heard even went so far as to set up a camera and film Depp returning home in a drunken stupor, smashing up kitchen cabinets, seemingly gearing up for a fight. It's all nasty as hell. You could even say this goes way beyond Depp being a "huge jerk." Abusing a partner with violence is monstrous. 

Even with the aid of an earpiece, Depp's on set behavior is reported to be terrible. It's been revealed that Depp shows up to set late, keeping hundreds of crew members and his fellow actors waiting for hours, and causing the production to hemorrhage money. During the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, he would turn up to set drunk and, as it was being filmed during his and Heard's divorce, he would often get into physical altercations with Heard on the set. 

Back in the day, before the alcohol bloat caught up with him, you could call Depp's acting choices brave or off-the-wall. Depp being Tim Burton's muse produced such enduring classics as Edward Scissorhands. But as time went on, their collaborations were less stunning and more, well, terrible.

But regardless of quality, maybe back then Depp was putting in the work. Or at least doing the bare minimum. Like learning his lines. Nowadays it's a different story. According to his ex-managers, Depp is so averse to effort that he has his lines fed to him through an earpiece so he doesn’t have to memorize scripts. 

During the divorce proceedings, sources came forward saying Depp might have a problem with bisexual people. Specifically, that his then-wife Heard was a bisexual. People said Depp complained Heard had an insatiable bisexual appetite that drove Depp mad with jealousy. Whether this is a story planted by Depp's team during the settlement talks or if this is a story spun from gossip rags is unclear, but either way the stories paint Depp as a man that doesn't trust bisexuals and believes the worst stereotypes about them. Apparently he didn't like Cara Delevingne or (Heard's ex) Tasya van Ree being around her, for fear that she would forget she was married and jump into bed with them.

All the spending has left Depp in a bad financial way. But he won't accept the blame for that. He said the reason he's broke is because of his managers and lawyers - who he is currently in the process of suing for $25 million. 

But his former managers have thrown a spanner in Depp's plan. They're countersuing him. They've hit back with a cross-complaint of fraud which has resulted in the spilling of Depp's financial tea. They claimed they warned him numerous times about his perilous spending habits, all to no avail.