Johnny Depp will surely turn heads when he attends the VMAs “dressed as a space man”.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star will reportedly dress up as MTV's iconic Moonman at network’s prestigious award ceremony next week.
A show production insider has revealed all about the 59-year-old's plans to shock attendees at the event on Sunday, August 28.
He will “show face at some point during the award show's broadcast”, according to TMZ.
The tip-off comes as Depp begins filming his first major movie role following his defamation trial against Amber Heard earlier this year.
He takes on the role of King Louis XV in French director Maïwenn Le Besco's historical love story Jeanne du Barry, in which the female director will also co-star alongside Depp.
In a promotional image for the upcoming film, the dad-of-two looks unrecognisable thanks to a blonde wig and a black blindfold concealed the majority of his face.
Depp can be seen sporting 18th-century clothing - including a gold regal jacket - and appears to have adorned his lips with a rouge lip paint and lightened his normally tanned skin.
His return to acting comes after the actor's lengthy career was heavily discussed throughout his explosive six-week libel trial against Aquaman actress Amber.
Depp successfully sued his ex-wife over a newspaper article titled: "I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change."
Although the op-ed did not directly name the actor, Depp's lawyers successfully argued in court that the article defamed him and impacted his career.
It was thanks to the implied allegations he had abused his ex-wife throughout their marriage - something the actor has always strongly denied.
During the explosive trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, Depp's former talent agent of over 30 years claimed her ex client would keep film crews waiting "around for hours and hours" and became a difficult client to work with towards the end of their working relationship together, due to what she claimed to be "unprofessional behaviour".
Depp's witnesses and the actor himself argued his ex-wife's allegations surrounding their relationship - that he strongly denies - had negatively impacted his successful career and had resulted in him missing out on a number of lucrative film roles.
In their verdict, the jury found that all three statements from Heard's Washington Post op-ed were false, defamed Mr Depp, and made with actual malice, so the jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from his ex-wife.
