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Amber Heard will be in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Despite a longstanding rumor that Amber, 37, could be scrubbed from the film after dropping the high-profile defamation trial along with her ex, Johnny Depp, Amber appeared within the movie’s trailer proven at CinemaCon. Multiple shops confirmed Amber made a quick look within the preview, with Insider reporting that there are two transient photographs of Amber’s character, Mera, doing battle underwater.
James Wan, the director behind the 2018 Aquaman sequel, describes this new movie as an “action-adventure story with a really fun bromance between Arthur (Jason Momoa) and Orm (Patrick Wilson). “Orm was a villain the first time around, but this time Arthur needs him.” The movie options Aquaman’s longtime archnemesis, Black Manta (Yayah Abdul-Mateen), as the primary antagonist.
Amber’s look in a trailer contradicts reviews that she could be recast within the sequel. “The rumor mill continues as it has from day one — inaccurate, insensitive, and slightly insane,” Amber’s rep advised Insider following the claims that Warner Bros. had determined to recast her after a display check of the sequel.
While on the stand in her defamation trial, Amber claimed that her function was closely lowered on account of her allegations in opposition to Johnny Depp, 59. “They released me from my contract,” she mentioned, per Insider. “I fought to stay in it, and they kept me in it. I just don’t know how much I’m in, actually, of the final cut. As I said, I don’t know if I will even be in the final cut or how much I will be. It was difficult to stay in the movie. I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it that depicted my character and another character — without giving any spoilers away — two characters fighting with one another. They basically took a bunch out of my role. They just removed a bunch out.”
Walter Hamada, the then-head of DC Films, was known as in to testify in the course of the courtroom. He claimed that “the size of the role in the film that she has was determined in the early development of the script,” per The Independent.
Amber’s involvement within the movie has been a topic of controversy for comedian followers and Depp stans. Those who sided with Depp throughout his battle along with his ex-wife based a Change.org petition to take away Heard from the Aquaman sequel. As of April 2023, it has 4.6 million signatures.
Though Depp misplaced his 2020 libel case in opposition to The Sun after the British publication known as him a “wife-beater,” a jury dominated in his favor in 2022 after he sued Amber over a 2018 op-ed that she wrote for The Washington Post. Though Amber by no means referred to her ex-husband by identify within the op-ed, she claimed she “became a public figure representing domestic abuse,” which was seemingly sufficient for Depp to efficiently sue for defamation. Amber first appealed the $10 million choice however determined to settle in December 2022.