The last time we saw good ol’ Johnny Depp, the guy was being dragged into yet another lawsuit for punching a crew member and generally acting the fool.

With all that trouble on his plate, we thought he’d keep himself on the down-low.

The last thing we expected from the troubled star was for him to appear in full wizard cosplay at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend.

Fans in the audience were spellbound AF when Depp took to the stage, dressed up as Gellert Grindelwald – the villainous wizard from his new flick, Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald – to address them.

The Telegraph has the deets:

The latest JK Rowling tale – the second Harry Potter prequel – also features Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and Jude Law as a young Albus Dumbledore, long before he was headmaster of Hogwarts School …

And when Warner Brothers unveiled the line-up for the Comic-Con panel to showcase the trailer for the film, Depp was not among the famous names listed.

Instead, he made a surprise appearance half-way through the discussion, strolling on stage as the wizard Gellert Grindelwald, to deliver an anti-Muggle manifesto.

Roll tape:

Johnny Depp makes a surprise visit at #SDCC in full Grindelwald costume pic.twitter.com/beWA1VId11

— FANDOM @ SDCC (@getFANDOM) July 21, 2018

Uh, how magical?

The audience, however, lapped his performance up. It’s as if they completely forgotten about his alleged abuse of ex-wife Amber Heard.

Not to mention the fact that Heard was at Comic-Con, too, speaking at another Warner Bros. panel following her’s ex’s surprise appearance.

Awks for days.

[source:telegraph]