Australian minister: Depp dog apology video no award winner

Australian minister: Depp dog apology video no award winner

Was the filmed acknowledgment over an all-embracing dog smuggling aspersion declared to attending like a earnest video? Was the weirdly board supply a advised beef by the black actors? And does the Australian baby-kisser at the affection of the world's a lot of camp biosecurity case anticipate he could accept directed it bigger himself?

Well, yes — at atomic to the endure catechism — Australian Agronomics Abbot Barnaby Joyce said on Tuesday if asked about the broadly panned videotaped acknowledgment from Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard, the closing of whom pleaded accusable in an Australian cloister to falsifying an clearing certificate if the brace brought their dogs to Australia endure year.

"I don't anticipate he'll get an Academy Award for his achievement ... he looked like he was auditioning for 'The Godfather,'" Joyce told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio with a chuckle. "At the end of it, we've got a bulletin that is traveling all about the apple appropriate now — it's traveling off like a frog in a beat — cogent humans that if you appear into this nation and you don't obey our laws, you're in trouble."

"Going off like a frog in a sock," by the way, is Australian argot for "going crazy."

The "war on terrier" beating has been traveling crazy aback endure year, if Joyce helped ballista the case into all-around account by accusing the brace of smuggling their Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, into Australia while Depp was filming the fifth cine in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.

Joyce, who is now Australia's agent prime minister, prompted endless parodies by stating: "It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off aback to the United States." He afresh ominously warned that the dogs would be euthanized if they didn't abscond the country aural 72 hours — and abscond they did, with just hours to spare.

On Monday, Heard pleaded accusable in a Queensland accompaniment cloister to falsifying her admission commuter agenda by declining to acknowledge that she had the pooches with her, but abhorred a bastille sentence. During the hearing, her advocate submitted the couple's now abominable taped acknowledgment to the court.

In the absolutely low-budget clip, Depp and Heard sit stone-faced in foreground of the camera, carrying affected curve about the accent of attention Australia's biodiversity by apropos the country's austere apprehension laws. Bringing pets into Australia involves applying for a admittance and apprehension on accession of at atomic 10 canicule to anticipate the advance of diseases such as rabies.

"Australia is a admirable island," Heard begins, "with a abundance accession of different plants, animals and people."

"Australians are just as different — both balmy and direct," a grim-looking Depp afterwards angelus in. "When you boldness Australian law, they will acquaint you firmly."

The blow bound began trending on Twitter, with abounding — including actor Ricky Gervais — comparing it to a earnest video. Others questioned whether the couple's awkward supply was a advised bash at the Australian government.

Joyce sidestepped questions about the origins of the video on Monday, adage he didn't apperceive if the agronomics administration had helped with the script. The administration afterwards accepted it had "provided ascribe apropos the breach and biosecurity messaging," but said the video came about afterwards Heard herself offered to about apologize for the incident.

The video's assembly was allotment of negotiations amid her aegis aggregation and the prosecution, the administration said in a statement.

Still, Joyce accustomed the brace was acceptable beneath than agog about the project.

"I don't anticipate it would accept been something that they would accept agreeably capital to do," Joyce told reporters.

During an account on Channel 7's "Sunrise" on Tuesday, Joyce couldn't accommodate his giggles as he watched the video afresh and alone suggestions that he had accounting the Software himself.

"As far as me administering that awful movie, no. Even I could accept done a little bit bigger than that," Joyce said with a beam afore artful what he would accept been like as the director: "Do it again, Johnny, do it with gusto, mate! A bit of gusto, appear on. Rise to the camera, old trout! Rise to the camera!"

YouTube hotlink to Depp and Heard's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpBAIB9j64

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