Everything Said About ‘Aquaman’ During Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Defamation Trial

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Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard began in April 2022 — and the actress’ role in DC’s Aquaman film series has repeatedly come up throughout the highly publicized proceedings.Depp is suing his Rum Diary costar over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she identified herself as a victim of domestic violence but did not mention the Pirates of the Caribbean actor by name.

The What’s Eating Gilbert Grape star, who was married to Heard from 2015 to 2017, denies all allegations of physical abuse and claims that the article damaged his career and reputation.“It’s been six years of trying times,” Depp testified in April 2022. “One day you’re Cinderella and then in zero point six seconds you’re Quasimodo.

I didn’t deserve that and neither did my children.” The Kentucky native went on to claim that Disney dropped him from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise less than a week after Heard’s Washington Post op-ed was published.During the trial, Heard claimed that the media attention surrounding the case has hurt her career prospects as well.

In May 2022, she testified that her role as Mera in Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom, due in theaters in March 2023, was significantly reduced after Depp publicly alleged that her domestic violence claims were a fabrication.“I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it,” Heard told the court, claiming, “They took [out] a bunch of my role.”The Drive Angry actress also claimed that Warner Bros.