As an almost throwaway implied aside in the massive hit piece on the A list actor, is that the A+ list talent agent takes on clients way below his grade if they sleep with him.

The Hollywood Reporter

Johnny Depp

Kevin Huvane

A Creative Artists Agency managing partner since 1995, Huvane has maintained a stellar list of clients, including Tom Cruise, for whom he recently inked a massive deal to return for back-to back “Mission: Impossible” installments. Like longtime partners Richard Lovett and Bryan Lourd, he played a key role in bringing in private-equity firm TPG as an agency stakeholder in 2010, a major move for a talent agency at the time and one that prompted biggies WME and UTA to make similar moves. He was instrumental in a 2017 pairing with CMC Capital Partners that paved the way for CAA China to harness the country’s media potential. His CAA Foundation is a tireless driver of philanthropic efforts benefiting education, the environment and social issues.

When CAA was putting the film together in 2018, it wasn’t considering a list of auteurs like Tim Burton. Instead, CAA insisted that the Japan-set drama be helmed by an experimental sculptor turned director with only one unreleased family drama, Lullaby, to his credit: Andrew Levitas, who, unusually for an indie player, albeit one with an impressive career as an artist, has top industry agent Kevin Huvane on his team. When one project insider asked about finding a more seasoned director, the person was told it was Huvane’s call. Depp was to be paid $6 million — light-years from the $40 million he earned on each of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies after profit participation, but financiers became skittish about even that figure after a lawsuit filed by a crewmember on the actor’s City of Lies, a crime drama about the unsolved murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur that was pulled before its September 2018 release by distributor Global Road Entertainment. (The crewmember claimed an intoxicated Depp punched him twice on set.) – Source

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