THE LIBERTINE marks another successful step in Johnny Depp’s seemingly deliberate attempt to destroy his status as a sex symbol. This ongoing trend—foreshadowed by Depp’s too-dirty-to-be-hot river rat in Chocolat, solidified with his turn as the swishy J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, and creepily intensified with his pedophiliac Willy Wonka—finds its fulfillment in The Libertine, […]
