I'm so sick of American celebrities coming into Australia and acting like it unreasonable when we get upset about them breaking laws. We have just as much right to enforce our laws on people who visit as any other country on Earth, and just because you're a big deal, it doesn't mean you are allowed to disregard them.
From Justin Beiber coming and spray painting everywhere, expecting that we would be honored that he was being a complete idiot. However this is sparked from the stupid actions of Johnny Depp around his dogs pistol and boo. His wife (and him) brought them into Australia a while ago on a private jet and didn't declare them, clearly breaching our customs laws. The Australian immigration officials has every right to take and kill the dogs, but they didn't. Our agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce (who is an odd man to say the least) was particularly vocal surrounding this, and despite his over the top way of conveying his message, I agreed with the sentiment. We shouldn't let people breach our laws just because they are famous. But eventually we let the dogs go, and didn't put his wife in custody for a trial later (later happening to be today). In the meantime, rather than being at all ashamed of this and appreciating the fact that his dogs weren't killed and his wife isn't still in custody, Johnny Depp goes home and acts like a complete tool, making fun of our immigration department and pretending that it is unreasonable.
In this interview he is encouraged by the idiot Jimmy Kimmel, and his stupid crowd full of ignorant people thinking that he should be above the law.
His ignorance in this is so clear. The fact that we have posionous animals doesn't mean that your dogs won't cause any harm. We have worked incredibly hard to get rid of certain diseases, and we have a really high number of endangered species that could be wiped out by possible things. The fact that we want to preserve our ecosystems and native species is not a bad thing, and his blatant disregard for it was infuriating. Even worse was the fact that he, the interviewer, and the audience couldn't see an issue with it, as they are so ignorant in their assumption that everyone should just bow down to the american celebrity overlords.
Fast forward to today, when we get an apology from him and his wife. I was hopeful that is might be something decent. But then we get delivered this piece of rubbish.
This is not an apology, and for such a successful actor, it is surprising that he couldn't act like he even vaguely meant what he said. It was a script written by someone else, that he was told would get him out of trouble. The general sentiment here is that this looks like a hostage video and that he thinks he's got a gun pointed at him and is being forced to say every word.
Pretty much, I'm just sick of people like him thinking they're above the law, and coming and doing whatever they want.