Johnny Depp missed out on an £18 million ($22.5m) fee for Pirates of the Caribbean 6 and it was “impossible” to land him a major Hollywood film part after Amber Heard’s allegations of domestic abuse, according to his agent.

Depp claims he was dropped as swashbuckling pirate Jack Sparrow and “cancelled” after Heard wrote a 2018 op-ed piece for the Washington Post, alleging she had been the victim of physical and sexual violence.

Giving evidence at the former couple’s libel battle, agent Jack Whigham said Depp did not appear in any studio films between December 2018 and October 202.