May 24
6 min read
Sympathy for the Devil
On Johnny Depp, and our seemingly endless ability to humanize and forgive abusive men.
His speech is slurred. He’s puffy. He struggles to answer basic questions. Ask him what movies he’s been in, or who he played in those movies; sometimes he can’t recall. He’s trying some kind of accent these days — transatlantic, a Katherine Hepburn thing; on lines like “sir, this…
