Corey Feldman’s doing a bit cleanup — or perhaps a smooth 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 bought him axed from the 1993 movie “What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape” — what he meant was that he landed the position, it bought 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 surprise what coulda, woulda occurred if he’d stored 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 an entire 12 months in the past.

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