Lawyer for Whitey Bulger,the gangster immortalised on screen by Depp, says actor ‘might as well have been playing the crazy Hatter again’ for all his client’s interest, and while enforcer Kevin Weeks questions film’s failure to mention FBI complicityIt’s been hailed as a major return to form for Johnny Depp and a potential contender for the 2016 Oscars. But the two men whose murderous activities form the basis of gangster drama Black Mass have dismissed the film as an inconsequential fantasy.
Whitey Bulger,the brutal mobster and FBI informant portrayed by Depp in Scott Cooper’s critically acclaimed film, has not seen the festival season smash because he is currently serving back-to-back life sentences for complicity in 11 murders and other criminal activities between 1971 and 1994. The former head of the South Boston Winter Hill gang reportedly refused to discuss his life with the actor, and according to his lawyer Hank Brennan,is not impressed by the film’s success.
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Source: theguardian.com