Corey Feldman’s doing a bit of cleanup — or perhaps a mushy backpedal — on these Johnny Depp feedback … even saying he’d nonetheless be open to working with him.

We caught up with Corey at LAX Friday … and he tells TMZ he by no means meant to point Depp received him axed from the 1993 movie “What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape” — what he meant was that he landed the position, it received yanked, after which it ended up within the arms of a fresh-faced Leo DiCaprio.

Catch the clip … Corey tells us how he thinks the response to his feedback was overhyped, and his tackle the entire sliding doorways vibe — like, does he ever marvel what coulda, woulda occurred if he’d saved the position?

Corey’s cool, calm, and picked up about all of it now, which is a complete 180 from that fiery podcast interview that aired in March — which he tells us was filmed a complete 12 months in the past.

Keep in mind, he initially claimed Depp was liable for the position getting swiped from him, and stated he nonetheless hadn’t watched the film to this very day ‘trigger he was nonetheless bitter.

CF additionally dropped what felt like a prediction — saying he knew he was gonna get torn aside for telling the story. So now, perhaps it’s a bit of harm management… or perhaps he’s actually had a change of coronary heart. Both method, the vibe’s positively softened!