Actor Johnny Depp has said that he doesn’t feel boycotted by Hollywood anymore even though he did get affected when he was asked to resign from projects owing to controversies surrounding his recent court cases.

“Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood? Well, you’d have to not have a pulse to feel at that point, ‘None of this is happening, it’s just a weird joke or I have been asleep for 35 years.’ Of course, when you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing, because of something that is merely a bunch of kind of vowels and consonants floating in the air, you feel a boycott,” the 59-year-old actor said during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

Depp’s comeback film Jeanne du Barry received a standing ovation at the opening night of the prestigious event in France, leaving the actor teary-eyed. The film marked his return to the big screen after a three-year gap.

“Do I feel a boycott now? No, not at all. I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much further need for Hollywood myself, I think it’s a very strange, funny time where everybody wants to be themselves, but they can’t, they must fall in line, conform — and if you want to lead this life, I’ll be on the other side,” the Pirates of the Caribbean star further said.

US-based entertainment portal Deadline shared a clip of his answers at the Cannes press conference on Instagram.

In Jeanne du Barry, Depp plays Louis XV and filmmaker Maïwenn stars as his newly recruited mistress, Countess Jeanne du Barry.

“In regards to me and my life, the majority of what you’ve read is fantastically horrifically written fiction,” the actor said, referring to the allegations levelled against him by his ex-wife Amber Heard.

Watch the full press conference here: