Lola Glaudini says Johnny Depp "reamed" her while filming Blow
Lola Glaudini was reminded of her bad experience on Blow while watching coverage of the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial
Criminal Minds alum Lola Glaudini shared a new story about Johnny Depp from the set of the 2001 film Blow on an episode of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast in January. In a clip resurfaced on Twitter, Glaudini recalled a “fucked up” situation that she had never shared publicly before, involving Depp shouting at her in front of the entire cast and crew while shooting. The actor says the experience was brought back to her mind while watching news footage of the Depp/Amber Heard trial.
“I show up on set, day one, I haven’t even met Johnny Depp at this point,” Glaudini says, explaining that the scene involves Depp doing a “big monologue” while she and two other “half-dressed” female actors giggle and pass a joint around in the background. “And after a couple takes [director] Ted Demme comes over to me and he’s like, ‘Okay Lola… when Johnny is saying his monologue, when he says this certain word’—and he gives me a cue, and he says, ‘I want you to just burst out laughing like she just told you the funniest thing over here.’”
Glaudini remembers doing the scene twice, bursting into laughter at the appropriate time with encouragement from Demme. But when they called cut, she says:
“Johnny Depp… comes up to me, sticks his finger in my face. And I’m in a bikini, on the ground, like this. And he comes over and he goes, ‘Who the fuck do you think you are? Who the fuck do you think you are? Shut the fuck up. I’m out here, and I’m trying to fuckin’ say my lines, and you’re fuckin’ pulling focus, you fucking idiot! …Oh, now? Oh now it’s not so funny? Now you can shut up? Now you can fuckin’ shut the fuck up? Oh it’s not funny now? Okay, the quiet that you are right now, that’s how you fuckin’ stay.’ First day on the set. I’d never met him. This is my first studio movie, I’ve just done indies until then. And I have the star who I have idolized, who I’m so excited to work with, reamed me in my face. The only thing going through my head was, ‘Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry.’”
Demme didn’t intervene on Glaudini’s behalf, and over the next “five, six more hours” she was treated by everyone on set as a “pariah.” “Like, no one wanted to fucking talk to me, because I’m the bitch who he railed at,” the actor recalls. Afterward, she went to her trailer and sobbed, then spoke to her father, who said she could either choose to walk away or “don’t let them see you sweat.” Resolved to stay on the film, she left her trailer and was confronted by Depp again. Looking down on her from the doorframe of her own trailer, the star gave her “a non-apology apology,” giving excuses that he was “really in [his] head” and that the Boston accent he was doing was “really fucking with [him].” When he said he wanted to make sure the pair was “cool,” “I just looked at him and I was like, ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Of course. Totally cool,” Glaudini says. “’Cause I was just like, don’t let them see you sweat. And so that was that. And then we had six weeks in Acapulco.”
Glaudini shares that she was reminded of the story when watching a clip of Depp’s ex-wife, Amber Heard, testifying about his alleged domestic abuse during the 2022 trial. “She was relaying—you know, I don’t know anything about anything—she was relaying something that he said,” Glaudini recalls, “[And] this is what, I was like, ‘Huh?!’ Because she says, ‘And then, he said to me, Oh, oh you’re quiet now huh, oh, you don’t have anything to say now.’ … [And] I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s exactly what he said to me in that moment. It like, fully brought me back.”