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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 29 october 2018
Amber Heard says she is happy to have moved on with her life

By LINDSEY BAHR that kind of girl,” Heard re- apologetic warrior queen
Associated Press membered telling the pro- who she was actually in-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ac- ducers. “There’s a reason terested in. Lately, Heard
tress Amber Heard has I’ve done probably a lot has been throwing herself
a movie coming out this of bad things in my life with into her humanitarian work
weekend that will be new regard to films,” she said. and activism. She went to
to theaters and mass audi- “I’ve struggled and tried to Washington D.C. to show
ences, but for her it’s actu- make my way through this her support for survivors on
ally quite old. business and I haven’t had the day Supreme Court
“London Fields,” an ad- the luxury to be picky, like Justice Brett Kavagnaugh
aptation of a 1989 Martin most people who start off was confirmed in October
Amis mystery, has been in in the figurative mail room, and recently finished up
some stage of develop- but there’s one thing I’ve a stretch speaking at the
ment for almost 20 years. avoided, and it’s being rel- One Young World Summit
Heard didn’t get involved egated to the archetypal, in The Hague.
until 2013, with music vid- reactionary woman ... I’ve “It’s incredibly rewarding
eo director Matthew Cul- never been a rom-com to be able to use what
len at the helm, but the princess.” experience I’ve lived and
roadblocks and behind In this Oct. 9, 2018 file photo, actress Amber Heard arrives at the She even remembered endured, suffered, sur-
the scenes drama had American Music Awards in Los Angeles. rolling her eyes when the vived through,” she said.
only just begun. The film Associated Press producers described Mera “It’s amazing to be able
was abruptly pulled from ered,” Heard said of the appearance in “Justice as a “badass,” but she to use one’s experiences
the Toronto International clairvoyant femme fatale League”). decided to read a comic in life to help others, to
Film Festival in 2015 (after who’s also trapped by an It took some convincing for book (her first ever) to see help push the conversation
some critics had already idea that, “death is pref- her to make that unchar- what the fuss was about, forward, to change the
seen it) when Cullen sued erable to the decline of acteristic leap. “I’m not and found in Mera an un- conversation.”q
the producers over a dis- youthful female sexuality.”
pute about payment and Overall, Heard is happy
the final cut, which set off that “London Fields” is final-
a string of countersuits. Pro- ly coming out and says that
ducers even sued Heard the issues that have kept it
for $10 million, which she out of theaters “are be-
countered with a suit that hind us now,” but that she
claimed the production would have been, “Much
had violated her nudity happier had the film come
agreement by using a out three years ago.”
body double. She said it was “unfortu-
It would take until Septem- nate” and “very wrong”
ber, five years after cam- that she was sued and is
eras started rolling, for the glad that they were able
producers to settle, and to settle and that she ulti-
now the film is finally pre- mately didn’t have to pay
paring to debut this week- any money.
end in 600 theaters. “But it’s very important for
“Can you imagine what it a female actress or any
would be like for you to talk woman to be able to ex-
about an article that you ercise her own control over
wrote or a piece you did her own body and her im-
five years ago?” Heard, 32, age,” Heard added. “I’m
said, laughing via phone glad that the version of
from London this week. the movie being released
She can barely relate to is supposedly respectful ...
the person who did this a with regards specifically
half decade ago, when to nudity and my nudity
she was in her 20s and agreement. But again,
newly married to her now those issues are in the past.”
ex-husband Johnny Depp, “In the past” is a phrase
who has a small role in the that Heard repeats often
film. “All of those factors and the release of “Lon-
have changed,” she said. don Fields” helps to close
“It’s been so long.” a chapter in her life, and
She can’t quite recall allows her to focus on the
which version she’s last future, her humanitarian
seen of the movie which work and the December
co-stars Billy Bob Thornton, release of her most high-
Theo James and Jim Stur- profile film to date, the DC
gess, although she does still comic book movie “Aqua-
find her character Nicola man” in which she stars
Six interesting. opposite Jason Momoa as
“You can make different Mera, a sea queen with
cases for her being em- Little Mermaid-red hair (she
powered or disempow- was introduced in a small