Johnny Depp clearly does not forgive Australia for Pistol and Boo travesty
Johnny Depp will never be allowed to live down the bizarre video apology he made in April for illegally bringing his dogs into Australia. It's sweet he's trying to joke about it, though.
Depp and his wife Amber Heard faced trial on Australia's Gold Coast for smuggling their pooches, Pistol and Boo, into the country and breaking the nation's strict quarantine laws in the process.
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The hostage video apology, featuring a sullen-faced Depp and Heard, was played to the court during their appearance. Heard was sentenced to a good behaviour bond of A$1,000, but the video from the pair provided excellent fodder for late-night talk shows and YouTube parodies.
Down but not out after his confusing brush with Australian law, Depp made light of the apology to a room full of reporters while promoting his new film, Alice Through The Looking Glass, in the UK on Sunday. "I'm going to do this everywhere I go. I would really like to apologise for not smuggling in my dogs into England, because it would've been a bad thing to do," Depp said.
"Because the Australians, though chipper and, you know," he continued, as the audience laughed.
Director Tim Burton, a producer on the new film, chimed in on the joke. "I forgot to tell you -- they're dead, I just sat on them upstairs by accident," he said.
"I tried to kill them after Australia," Depp replied in jest.
As much as stern-faced Australian customs agents may have implored Depp and Heard to learn their lesson from the incident, it appears Depp is trying to show the world he couldn't care less. If you look really close though, you can still see the existential pain in his eyes.
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