He didn't resist temptation. He pursued it. Based on the play by Stephen Jeffreys The Libertine recounts the life of the scandalously decadent John Wilmot (Johnny Depp) the second Earl of Rochester. Married but not satisfied he has a passionate romance with a young actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton) and writes a scurrilous play that lampoons its commissioner King Charles II (John Malkovich who starred in the play when it was staged at Chicago's Steppenw