Johnny Depp’s former agent said studios grew hesitant to cast the actor because of his reputation for “unprofessional behavior.”

Previously, Depp’s current talent agent Jack Whigham testified that the starlost a potential payday of $22.5 millionto be in a sixthPirates of the Caribbeanmovie due to the fallout of the article. “After the op-ed, it was impossible to get him a studio film, which is what we normally would have been focused on in that time period,” Whigham said.

“He became the biggest star in the world,” she said, adding that it became “far more complicated” to represent him in the last 10 years they worked together due to “his unprofessional behavior.”

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“Showing up late to set consistently on virtually every movie. I would get yelled at. I never said to him, ‘You’re a difficult client.’ I never used those words. But I was very honest with him and said, ‘You’ve got to stop doing this. This is hurting you.’ And it did,” said Jacobs.

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Actor Johnny Depp arrives into the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 16, 2022. - Actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” (Photo by Steve Helber / POOL / AFP) (Photo by STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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“Initially, crews loved him because he was always so great with the crew. But crews don’t love sitting around for hours and hours and hours waiting for the star of the movie to show up,” she continued. “And it also got around town. I mean, people talk; it’s a small community. It made people reluctant to use him toward the end [of us working together].”

Depp resigned from his role in theFantastic Beastsfranchise in November 2020 after losinghis highly publicized U.K. libel lawsuit caseagainst British tabloidThe Sunfor calling him a “wife-beater.” The court upheld the outlet’s claims as being “substantially true” and Heard testified to back up the claims. In March 2021, his attempt tooverturn the decision was overruled.

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Steve Helber/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (12942408d) Actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury comes into the courtroom after a break at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, 16 May 2022. Johnny Depp’s 50 million US dollar defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard that started on 10 April is expected to last five or six weeks. Depp v Heard defamation lawsuit at the Fairfax County Circuit Court, USA - 16 May 2022

In his testimony for this Virginia case, Depp — who has said multiple times under oath that he has never struck Heard or any woman — said that following Heard’s allegations against him, he lost “nothing short of everything.”

“I come from nothing. All I have is my integrity. All I have is my name — and that’s exactly what he promised to take from me,” Heard said on the stand.

source: people.com