Hollywood icon Johnny Depp looks completely unrecognizable in his new role for Day Drinker – and fans have gone into overdrive over the transformation. 

Lionsgate has dropped a first look image of Depp in character, with the actor now sporting silver hair, a bushy full grey beard, and piercing blue contacts. 

In a first look image of Depp, 61, in character, he has undergone a mᴀssive transformation with the help of silver hair, a bushy grey heard, and blue contacts. 

He wear a crisp blue suit and leans against a counter with a cocktail in hand and a pensive look on his face.  

Depp, 61, fans raved about his ‘silver fox’ look and numerous noted the actor – who often undergoes physical transformations for his roles – looked a far cry from his usual self. 

‘We are entering the Silver Fox era of Johnny Depp and I am here for it,’ one posted. 

Hollywood icon Johnny Depp looks completely unrecognizable in his new role for Day Drinker, and fans have gone into overdrive over his transformation

Depp, pictured L in 2022, looked a far cry from his usual self in the first look pH๏τo from the Day Drinker 

‘Johnny Depp absolutely rocking the silver fox look during filming of Day Drinker! This movie is going to be amazing!’

‘Who knew Johnny Depp would look this good with grey hair and beard….’ another noted.

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‘He does look nice with this glow up,’ another noted.

Johnny’s costume also drew comparisons to the actor Jonathan Goldsmith’s role of ‘The Most Interesting Man In The World’ from the Dos Equis commercials. 

‘He looks like he’s playing the guy from the Dos Equis commercials… and I’m kinda here for it??’ another wrote.

‘Is this the story of the “Stay thirsty my friends” guy ??’ another asked. 

Multiple fans also said the transformation reminded them of Johnny’s role of Gellert Grindelwald from the Harry Potter films. 

‘Grindelwald vibes,’ one fan account noted with a side-by-side comparison of his two roles.  

‘He they never took away Grindelwald from us,’ one posted. 

‘Grindelwald is back !’ one fan quipped. 

Depp indeed had fans doing double takes in his first look image; pictured last month

His costume drew comparisons to his role of Gellert Grindelwald from the Harry Potter films

Fans raved about his ‘silver fox’ transformation

Several said his costume reminded them of Jonathan Goldsmith’s role of ‘The Most Interesting Man In The World’ from the Dos Equis commercials

Several gave the make-up department a shout-out 

Several gave shout-outs to the makeup department.  

‘Makeup department over budget on making him not look like a walking corpse,’ one X user posted.

‘He could never play a role without the costume department doing half the work. F***ing blue contacts and a wig (laughing crying emoji). yeah okay,’ another mused.  

Day Drinker marks Depp’s biggest-yet attempt to revive his silver screen career amid years of scandal in the wake of his contentious split from ex-wife Amber Heard.

Marc Webb directs and the film will also reunite him with Penelope Cruz in what will be their fourth film together.

Depp and Cruz have previously appeared in the films Blow (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Murder on the Orient Express (2017).

According to IMDb, the film is about ‘an enigmatic stranger forms an unlikely bond with a grieving bartender who lost her lover, their lives intertwining in unexpected ways.’

Lionsgate exec Adam Fogelson previously told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement: ‘Day Drinker combines a highly commercial concept with wildly outrageous twists and turns all set in an incredible world, and there is no better filmmaker than Marc or two more perfectly cast actors than Johnny and Penélope to bring that world to life.’

Day Drinker marks Depp’s biggest-yet attempt to revive his silver screen career amid years of scandal in the wake of his contentious split with Amber Heard

At the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Depp spoke about how his scandalous split from Heard impacted his show business career.

‘Did I feel boycotted by Hollywood?’ he said. ‘You’d have to not have a pulse to feel like, “No. None of this is happening. It’s a weird joke.” When you’re asked to resign from a film you’re doing because of something that is merely a function of vowels and consonants floating in the air, yes, you feel boycotted.’

Depp added, ‘I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood, because I don’t think about Hollywood.’

In June 2022, Depp was awarded $10.35million in a verdict delivered after his legal team successfully argued that Heard’s Washington Post op-ed, in which she accused her ex-husband of domestic abuse, was defamatory.

Heard did not name Depp publicly in the piece but given their status and notoriety, it was evident who she was referencing in regard to her history of being allegedly abused.

More than 500 million people reportedly livestreamed the six-week civil defamation trial which was held at Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia in 2022.

Heard was eventually found liable in all three matters of defamation raised, while Depp was only found liable in one of three matters of defamation raised.

The jury determined that Depp’s attorney had defamed Heard with a statement he made claiming she and her friends had fabricated evidence about a fight between her and her ex-husband in 2016.

She was awarded $2 million in damages. Eventually, the former couple reached a settlement on the jury awards, and Heard was only forced to pay Depp $1 million in total.

A previous libel trial, against The Sun newspaper which had called Depp a ‘wife beater’, ended in defeat for the Pirates of the Caribbean actor in 2020.