While Johnny Depp has earned rave reviews for his big screen turn as mobster and FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger, one insider is not pleased with the actor’s dramatic comeback.
Hank Brennan, attorney for the real-life Bulger, had harsh words for both Depp’s performance and the government agency in a recent interview.
“Johnny Depp might as well have been playing the Mad Hatter all over again as far as James Bulger is concerned,” Brennan told People magazine.
“Hollywood greed is behind the rush to portray my client, and the movie missed the real scourge created in my client’s case, the real menace to Boston during that time and in other mob cases around the country — the federal government’s complicity in each and every one of those murders with the top echelon informant program,” he said.