It’s a long way from “Pirates of the Caribbean” to the Palace of Versailles. But that’s the journey of Johnny Depp, who goes from playing an 18th-century pirate scoundrel to an 18th-century monarch, ...

Maiwenn as Jeanne du Barry and Johnny Depp as King Louis XV, in JEANNE DU BARRY. Courtesy of Vertical Johnny Depp as France’s King Louis XV? Speaking French? Yeah, I want to see that. That was my ...

Johnny Depp said he felt “strangely, oddly, perversely lucky” to have been offered the role of French King Louis XV at the U.K. premiere of his new film “Jeanne du Barry.” Depp was accompanied by the ...