Johnny Depp leaves ‘Fantastic Beasts’ after losing the case against the Sun, at the behest of Warner Bros

American actor Johnny Depp announced it on Friday on his Instagram account leaves the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, after losing the libel case against News Group Newspapers and the British newspaper The Sun, executive director Dan Wootton, for an article calling the artist “his wife’s beater,” actress Amber Heard.

Depp claimed that Warner Bros. she urged him to leave his role by villain Gellert Grindelwald. “I respected and accepted that request,” he wrote.