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'Fantastic Beasts' director turns blind eye to Johnny Depp backlash

November 28, 2017

Johnny Depp’s casting in the Fantastic Beasts series is the hill upon which Warner Bros. has chosen to fight and die. Director David Yates addressed the ongoing casting controversy in an exclusive for Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday, and he seemed to attribute it to the current climate of, um, calling out toxic masculinity.

“Honestly there’s an issue at the moment where there’s a lot of people being accused of things, they’re being accused by multiple victims, and it’s compelling and frightening,” Yates told EW. “With Johnny, it seems to me there was one person who took a pop at him and claimed something.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 'Fantastic Beasts' director turns blind eye to Johnny Depp backlash

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