AQUAMAN Star Amber Heard Doesn't Appear To Be Thrilled With Warner Bros.' Defense Of Johnny Depp

AQUAMAN Star Amber Heard Doesn't Appear To Be Thrilled With Warner Bros.' Defense Of Johnny Depp

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. drew some ire with their defense of Fantastic Beasts 2 star Johnny Depp, and now the actor's ex-wife Amber Heard has weighed in on the matter...

By MattBellissimo - Dec 11, 2017 04:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
The controversy surrounding Johnny Depp's casting in the Fantastic Beasts franchise has continued, now with Depp's ex-wife Amber Heard weighing in on the matter. Heard accused Depp of domestic abuse last year, before reaching a settlement and finalizing their divorce last January. The last few weeks have seen the film's director David Yates and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling defend the actor's casting in separate statements, both of which haven't gone over well with fans on social media. Warner Bros. also decided to release a statement on the situation:

"We are of course aware of reports that surfaced around the end of Johnny Depp’s marriage, and take seriously the complexity of the issues involved," the statement said. "This matter has been jointly addressed by both parties, in a statement in which they said 'there was never any intent of physical or emotional harm'. Based on the circumstances and the information available to us, we, along with the filmmakers, continue to support the decision to proceed with Johnny Depp in the role of Grindelwald in this and future films."

It appears this statement frustrated Heard, who took to her Instagram page to post the original joint statement made by her and Depp, along with her own thoughts, which you can read below. 



Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will arrive in theatres November 16, 2018.
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CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 12/11/2017, 4:49 AM
Understandable for amber.
Jeight8
Jeight8 - 12/11/2017, 4:50 AM
I'm not saying depp is a paragon of society but every single ex-partner of his says he isn't an abuser. That kind of behavior doesn't surface in your 50s. It's rooted deep within you since childhood.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 12/11/2017, 4:52 AM
@Jeight8 - I suppose in theory, if someone were to get stressed enough, they could do something like that, but i dont think thats the case here.
Jeight8
Jeight8 - 12/11/2017, 4:57 AM
@Krampus - My father had serious anger issues. He wasn't alcholoic or anythig but he grew up in ana enviroment with plenty of abuse. Me and my mother suffered from it.

Trust me when i say this to you. This kind of behavior doesn't come out in the blue. Unless every single one of his ex-girlfriends lie which they have no reason to. If anything they would have plenty of incentive to bury him.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 12/11/2017, 4:59 AM
@Jeight8 - I don't need to trust you. I had a similer father. Very true.
DavidGray
DavidGray - 12/11/2017, 6:16 AM
@Jeight8 - He was also dealing with the death of his mother at the time... And you could see he was gaining a lot of weight, and going to award shows piss drunk.

I don't know for a fact that he got physically abusive, but I do think he just hit a rough patch. I hope he's trying to get better.
Asturgis
Asturgis - 12/11/2017, 6:52 AM
@Jeight8 @Krampus - Same type of father here, and even though I agree with you, I think there's a small percentage of people who do not fit your general description. It is true that people like our fathers, serial abusers, will do it their entire life, and in a case like Heard and Depp, it would be very strange that he would just have had that kind of behavior with her only, but it's not impossible.

What I went through as a kid made me, strangely, into the nicest possible Teddy bear, I'm also really, unbelievably patient, but if you really, I mean REALLY, push me in my limits, I will snap, and destroy everything around me. I'm not talking about an argument, a couple's fight, I'm talking about that discussion that happens once or twice per lifetime where the other person, the one facing you who knows you best, wants to hurt you and is going to say the most horrendous things possible just to break you.

So maybe, just maybe, she pushed him so hard that for the first time ever, he snapped and lashed at her. Might even be what she wanted, just so she could destroy him, who knows. In any case, it's possible he snapped just this once. It's never happened to me, I've snapped, and I mean blind rage snap (I don't even remember it), only twice in my life, but I only destroyed furniture and my own hand. Never hurt anyone. Maybe Depp did.
Akoni
Akoni - 12/11/2017, 7:10 AM
@Jeight8 - An ex-girlfriend of mine cheated on me so I told her she had to move out of my apartment. Afterwards when I went to our old haunts (we both liked the same clubs/bars) people were coming up to me saying she was telling everyone I use to beat her. I had no idea. She was looking for sympathy so people would think I was at fault for the break up. Thankfully no one believed her, but because of this I don't automatically think any woman saying the same thing is lying, BUT I no longer believe her without question.
MrPositive
MrPositive - 12/11/2017, 4:52 AM
Is she the Gwyneth Paltrow of the dceu?
KWilly
KWilly - 12/11/2017, 4:57 AM
@MrPositive - At least Amber has something to complain about.
Danbito
Danbito - 12/11/2017, 4:54 AM
None of us were there. It's a he said/she said. Whatever happened has been settled between them.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla - 12/11/2017, 5:10 AM
@Danbito - besides women are always wanting to be treated the same as men. They shouldn't complain about taking a punch like one either.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 12/11/2017, 4:55 AM
WB pretty much said JDep is the bigger star and we still want him.
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 12/11/2017, 5:06 AM
She sounds like the type of woman that will make a sane and quiet man go cray cray. From the little I saw of Depp, as weird as he may be, was a quiet, shy and kind man with the people around him. He simply get got. She got what she wanted and played him like a fiddle.

TheScarletTroll
TheScarletTroll - 12/11/2017, 5:08 AM
Maybe I'm missing something, can someone explain how the line WB used "out of context" means anything different in the full statement she provided? Not being sarcastic, but to me it seems to read exactly the same as a whole or standalone.
Polaris
Polaris - 12/11/2017, 5:19 AM
@TheScarletTroll - I think what she means is that, even if there wasn't "an intent of harm" there was harm, because "neither party has made false accusations"
Pedrito
Pedrito - 12/11/2017, 5:19 AM
@TheScarletTroll - The joint statement is mainly a disclaimer that they do not want to profit from the scandal in any way. And while they surely didn’t have the “intention” to hurt each other, they did in fact beat the shit out of each other.
So basically WB is using their own statement against them, which is a typical lawyer move but it’s ignoring the fact that the shit was beaten out of them by each other.
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