During Amber Heard’s legal dispute with Johnny Depp , the actress revealed that she lost several job opportunities after the split and that her role as Mera in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was severely cut off due to Depp’s smear campaign.
“I had to fight really hard to keep my career going after I got my restraining order against Depp,” Heard testified. “I missed opportunities. I was laid off from jobs and campaigns. I fought to keep my job and the biggest movie opportunity I’ve had to date, Justice League, with the option to star in Aquaman. I had to fight hard to stay in Justice League because that was the time of divorce.”
“I got the script and then new versions of it that took out action scenes that portrayed my character and another character fighting each other. They basically cut a lot of stuff from my role,” Heard testified. “They just removed it.”
Heard plays the character Mera, a princess from the underwater kingdom of Xebel and the future wife and queen of Aquaman in the comics. After a series of delays, Aquaman 2 is slated for a March 16, 2023 release.
Ms Heard and Mr Depp were married in 2015 and separated two years later
The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard case
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been fighting in justice since 2016. Both accuse each other of violence and, during the trials, the actors exposed absurd scenes, ranging from violence to threats and feces in the bed.
In addition to being cut from Pirates of the Caribbean 6, Depp was also dropped from the Fantastic Beasts franchise, where he was replaced by Mads Mikkelsen. On Heard’s side, a petition to cut her from Aquaman 2 has surpassed 3 million signatures .
Johnny Depp has blamed his ex Amber Heard for cutting off the tip of his finger, as his criticism guarantee against the Sun paper proceeds.
The entertainer told the High Court Ms Heard, 34, tossed a vodka bottle at him what cut the highest point of his finger and “squashed the bones”.
She denies harming his finger.
Mr Depp, 57, is suing for defamation over a Sun article that considered him a “undershirt” – however the paper keeps up with the story was exact.
The April 2018 piece by columnist Dan Wootton was about the projecting of Mr Depp in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film establishment.
Mr Depp’s attorneys say the article made “abusive claims the very pinnacle of reality”, by blaming him for committing genuine attacks on Ms Heard.
On the third day of procedures at London’s High Court, Sasha Wass QC, addressing Sun distributer News Group Newspapers, said Ms Heard had been exposed to a “three-day experience” during which Mr Depp had “totally obliterated” the house they were remaining in during a medication fuelled rage.
Ms Wass said Mr Depp had blamed the entertainer for having illicit relationships with her “driving man” while the couple were in Australia where he was recording one of the Pirates of the Caribbean establishment in March 2015. He then, at that point, tossed Ms Heard against a ping-pong table and pushed her facing an ice chest, Ms Wass said.
Mr Depp denied the allegation, adding: “After the episode where Ms Heard tossed the vodka bottle, the subsequent vodka bottle at me, which cut off the highest point of my finger and squashed the bones, that is the point at which I started what I feel was presumably a few types of a breakdown, a mental meltdown or something like that.”
Mr Depp said he then, at that point, started to compose on mirrors and dividers utilizing the harmed finger, saying he “didn’t have any desire to inhabit that time”.
Johnny Depp said his finger was harmed when Amber Heard tossed a jug of vodka at him
Ms Wass shared with Mr Depp: “At one phase when you were in the kitchen, shouting at Ms Heard, you got the divider mounted phone.”
She said Mr Depp had the telephone in his right hand and was “over and over crushing it against the divider”.
He added: “I ripped the telephone crazy.”
Ms Wass inquired: “By this stage, you were super furious, right?”
Mr Depp said: “I had quite recently lost the highest point of my finger and as a performer – as a person and as a performer – it is disturbing.”
Ms Wass got some information about already saying that he had been answerable for losing the highest point of his finger.
He said he had expressed that to “safeguard Ms Heard” when he needed to tell the creation organization he was unable to work.
Ms Heard has recently denied harming Mr Depp’s finger saying he harmed it while pulling the telephone crazy.
Ms Wass said Ms Heard had boiled down to a “condition of complete bloodletting” in the house with Mr Depp holding up his harmed hand and saying “Look what you made me do.” He said that was “erroneous”.
Mr Depp conceded he had said their relationship as “a crime location in the works” on a few events.
‘Compromised via vocation’
The consultation likewise focussed on a detox trip Mr Depp and Ms Heard took to his confidential island in the Bahamas in August 2014.
The outing is one of 14 events on which occurrences of abusive behavior at home, all denied by Mr Depp, are affirmed to have occurred – and which NGN are involving with all due respect against the entertainer’s criticism guarantee.
Mr Depp was inquired as to whether he had “hit and pushed” Ms Heard, to which he said: “I didn’t push Ms Heard or assault her in any capacity, as positively I was not in no condition to do as such.”
The court heard clinical notes recommending Ms Heard accepted Mr Depp was envious of her expert work with another entertainer, James Franco.
She said one specialist stated: “Her film with JF [James Franco] hastened a gorge that put JD in the emergency clinic. Everybody around J [Johnny Depp] is by all accounts scared by his influence and cash. Nobody faces him.”
Mr Depp said: “I think she was telling porky pies with her specialist.”
Prior, Ms Wass read out clinical notes by Mr Depp’s own primary care physician, David Kipper, which said the entertainer “romanticizes the whole medication culture and has no responsibility for his way of behaving”.
The specialist additionally composed that Mr Depp paid “empty talk” to individuals like Sir Elton John “more for their superstar than their battle with temperance”.
‘That doesn’t break a nose’
During one more contention at their Los Angeles penthouse Mr Depp conceded “incidentally” headbutting Ms Heard however guaranteed she was “thrashing and punching” him.
In a recorded discussion not long after the episode, which was played to the High Court, Mr Depp seemed to say he had headbutted his ex in the temple and added: “That doesn’t break a nose.”
He told the court he had attempted to get hold of her “to stop her thrashing and punching me” and as he did as such “it appears there was a crash”.
The case emerged out of the distribution of an article on the Sun’s site featured: “Gone Potty: How might JK Rowling at any point be ‘truly blissful’ projecting tank top Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?”
The Sun’s unique article connected with claims made by the entertainer, who was hitched to the Pirates of the Caribbean star from 2015 to 2017.
Witnesses including Mr Depp’s previous accomplices Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder are supposed to give proof through video interface, and the conference is supposed to keep going for a very long time.
Mr Depp, has been Oscar and Bafta-named and won a Golden Globe in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.