On Monday, April 14, Lionsgate dropped the first photo from Day Drinker, an upcoming thriller currently filming in Spain. In the image, the 61-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean actor is barely recognizable — dressed in a navy suit, holding a drink, and staring off-camera with silver hair tied back and a full gray beard.

According to the film’s official synopsis, Day Drinker follows a private-yacht bartender (Madelyn Cline) who crosses paths with a mysterious onboard guest (Depp). The two soon become entangled with a dangerous figure played by Penélope Cruz — and, apparently, “connected in ways no one saw coming.”

Shortly after the photo hit social media, fans wasted no time reacting.

“Johnny Silver Fox Depp ???????,” one person wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

“WOW Looking great JD ???????? Can’t wait ????????????,” another said.

“Johnny seems to be pulling off a new look!” added a third.

“He looks like he’s playing the guy from the Dos Equis commercials… and I’m kinda here for it??” someone else joked.

“Johnny Depp will flop so badly it’s the end of his career,” one user commented.

“The role he was born to play. He doesn’t even need to act!” another chimed in.

“Way to lean into the aging ????,” someone else wrote.

Day Drinker marks Depp’s first studio-backed role since Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018. The Hollywood icon was asked to step down from the franchise in 2020 after losing a libel case in the U.K. against a tabloid that referred to him as a “wife beater.” Though Depp denied the allegations, a judge ruled that the outlet’s claims were “substantially true.”

Fast forward to 2022, the Alice in Wonderland star sued Heard — whom he was married to from February 2015 to January 2017 — over an op-ed she wrote in 2018 about surviving domestic violence. Though Heard, now 38, didn’t name Depp, a jury found she had defamed him with actual malice and awarded him more than $10 million in damages. Heard won one of her own claims and was awarded $2 million.

Since the trial, Depp’s appeared in the French film Jeanne du Barry, which opened the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, and directed Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness — his first time in the director’s chair in over two decades.

Meanwhile, Heard relocated to Spain with daughter Oonagh, whom she welcomed in April 2021 via surrogate. In a May 2023 TikTok clip, the Aquaman actress told local reporters she “loves living” in the country and plans to stay long-term.

More recently, the proud mom revealed she’s expecting her second child. “It is still quite early in the pregnancy,” a spokesperson told People in December. “But Amber is delighted both for herself and Oonagh Paige.”