Will Hollywood be ready to welcome back Johnny Depp or Amber Heard after vivid charges of abuse, recordings of savage fights, and airings of unpleasant text messages?

When a US jury awarded Depp a near-total victory in his defamation case with ex-wife Heard on Wednesday, the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star declared that the jury had given him his life back.

Depp’s three defamation allegations were upheld by the jury, who gave him more than $10 million in damages. One counter-claim, that Depp’s lawyer had defamed her, was successful. Heard was awarded $2 million by the jury.

The decisions come at a price. The televised trial lasted six weeks and revealed intimate details about a dysfunctional marriage as well as evidence that both Depp and Heard admitted was embarrassing.

Despite this, Clayton Davis, senior awards editor at Hollywood journal Variety, believes Depp will be offered new movie parts now that a US jury has backed him after a years-long legal struggle.

“I think Johnny Depp is going to work again. He’s going to get some big project,” after the verdict, Davis said that Hollywood has plenty of instances of performers who have recovered from high-profile scandals.

After significant charges of unethical behavior, criminal convictions, or errors, Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson, Hugh Grant, Roman Polanski, and others found new possibilities. Kevin Spacey has only appeared in a few indie projects since being accused of sexual assault in 2018, which he denies.

“We have a culture that allows these people to work again,” Davis said.

Depp lost a libel suit in the United Kingdom against the Sun newspaper, which dubbed him a “wife beater,” less than two years ago. Depp had regularly attacked Heard, according to a London High Court judge. Depp was then dismissed from the “Fantastic Beasts” film franchise, a “Harry Potter” spinoff, shortly after.

Depp and his colleagues used the U.S. trial to rehabilitate their reputation and careers, according to attorney Neama Rahmani.

On the witness stand, Depp “was likable. He was credible. He was charismatic. He was charming,” Rahmani said.

Heard denied ever hitting Depp, while Depp confessed slapping her, but only to defend herself or her sister.

Depp’s strong support from followers on social media throughout the trial, according to Juda Engelmayer, a crisis communications expert who represents Harvey Weinstein and others, will strengthen his standing in Hollywood.

Producers “look at the millions of people who rallied to him, who signed petitions against Amber Heard, and they’re going to say ‘are they willing to come to movies and pay at the box office?’” Engelmayer said. “I think they will test him out.”

According to Engelmayer, the trial’s revelations may prevent Depp from acting in family films, but he believes Depp “will be a leading man again.”

Throughout the trial, Heard, who has a far shorter Hollywood resume, was reviled on social media, but Engelmayer hopes she, too, will be offered new acting possibilities. Heard filmed her role in “Aquaman 2,” which will be released in March 2023, before the trial.

Engelmayer predicts that a “socially concerned” filmmaker will offer Heard at least a tiny role in order to give her a fresh start after she went public with her abuse allegations.

Given the #MeToo movement in recent years, Hollywood would be seen as “hypocritical,” Engelmayer said, “if they don’t give her a role and give her an opportunity again.”