Johnny Depp surprised followers by displaying up at San Diego Comedian-Con Thursday dressed as Ebenezer Scrooge.
The “Sleepy Hole” actor was pictured on the yearly extravaganza carrying a prime hat and heavy overcoat whereas carrying a cane as he channeled the long-lasting miser from “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol.”
The almost unrecognizable actor sported a bushy forehead, patchy gray facial hair and prolonged sideburns for the shock look.
In a single photograph, he peered via a frost-covered windowpane, and in one other, he emerged from what gave the impression to be a set re-creation of a snowy doorway.
Depp, 63, was snapped being greeted by cosplayers dressed as a few of his most iconic characters from earlier movies — together with Willy Wonka from 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility”, Edward Scissorhands from the titular 1990 traditional and Captain Jack Sparrow from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise (2003-2017).
Elsewhere on the popular culture conference, he took the stage on the legendary Corridor H as Ebenezer, carrying a candlestick burned all the way down to a brief stub.
The trailer for the Ti West-directed movie dropped Thursday on-line as properly.
The actor was beforehand photographed on the London set of the movie, wanting equally as unrecognizable in costume because the Charles Dickens character.
Within the February pictures, Depp wore a navy blue gown and a cap overlaying his ears, showing alongside co-star Andrea Riseborough — clad in head-to-toe white — who performs the Ghost of Christmas Previous.
“Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol” additionally stars Ian McKellen, Daisy Ridley, Sam Claflin and Rupert Grint.
The movie is about for a Nov. 13 launch.
The function is Depp’s comeback to mainstream Hollywood motion pictures after he received a defamation case in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022.
He’d sued Heard for $50 million, claiming she defamed him in a Washington Put up op-ed about abuse in 2018.
Finally, the “Aquaman” actress was ordered to pay Depp $15 million in — although she was additionally awarded $2 million for a counterclaim.
They settled the case that yr, with Heard agreeing to pay her ex-husband $1 million.
Heard has since relocated to Spain, the place she’s elevating her kids: Oonagh Paige, 5, and twins Ocean and Agnes, 1.
Previous to his authorized showdown with Heard within the US, he misplaced a 2020 libel case in opposition to the UK Solar, which he sued for labeling him a “wife-beater” in a headline primarily based on Heard’s allegations.
