Johnny Depp has said that he has "no further need" for Hollywood.
The actor spoke at the Cannes Film Festival the day after premiering his first film in three years.
His rare public appearance to face questions from the press on Wednesday followed the opening night of Jeanne du Barry, in which he plays King Louis XV.
The film, directed by and starring Maïwenn, is Depp's first film since his US legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Part of Depp's argument in that 2022 defamation trial was that he had lost work due to Heard's allegations of domestic abuse.
Heard was ordered to pay Depp $10 million in damages. The jury also found that Heard was defamed by statements made by Depp's lawyer Adam Waldman and awarded her $2 million in damages.
Last December, it was announced that Heard had settled the multi-million-dollar case, with Depp's lawyers quoting a figure of $1 million.
The former couple also met in the Royal Courts of Justice in London in 2020 after Depp brought a libel action against the publisher of The Sun for referring to him as a "wife-beater".
Following a three-week trial, a judge found that the column, written in April 2018, was "substantially true".
The actor asked the Court of Appeal to grant permission for him to challenge the ruling, with the aim of having its findings overturned and a retrial ordered, but the appeal was denied.
"Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood? You'd have to not have a pulse to feel like, 'No. None of this is happening. It’s a weird joke'," Depp told reporters at Cannes on Wednesday.
"When you're asked to resign from a film you're doing because of something that is merely a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted."
Depp was most notably asked to step down from the Harry Potter spin-off franchise Fantastic Beasts.
Now, though, he says he is not interested in returning to studio projects.
"I don't feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don't think about Hollywood. I don't have much further need for Hollywood, myself," Depp said.
"It's a strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves but they can't.
"They must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best."
The Jeanne du Barry press conference was among the most circus-like in recent years at Cannes.
The press conference began unusually late and started with Maïwenn and other cast members there but no Depp.
He arrived about 20 minutes into the press conference and quickly took the spotlight.
Depp called the majority of what has been written about him in recent years "fantastically, horrifically written fiction".
"It's like asking the question: 'How are you doing?' But the subtext is, 'God, I hate you'," said Depp.
Some have raised questioned about whether Cannes ought to have given Depp such a prominent platform.
Asked how he would respond to such critics, Depp made a comparison that suggested few people feel that way.
"What if one day, they did not allow me to go to McDonald's for life because somewhere there'd be 39 angry people watching me eat a Big Mac on a loop?" said Depp.
"Who are they? What do they care?"
Jeanne du Barry opened on Tuesday in French cinemas.
It does not have US distribution as of yet.
"I've had my 17th comeback, apparently," said Depp.
"I keep wondering about the word 'comeback'.
"I didn't go anywhere. As a matter of fact, I live about 45 minutes away.
"Maybe people stopped calling out of whatever their fear was at the time. But I didn't go nowhere."
Source: Associated Press, Press Association
