Johnny Depp’s defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard is currently in its sixth and final week of proceedings.
Depp is suing Heard for $ 50 million (£ 38.2 million), alleging that Heard hinted that he abused her in a 2018 Washington Post article on domestic violence.
Although the article does not mention him by name, Depp claims that the piece made him lose his job.
In response, Heard is suing Depp for $ 100 million (£ 80.9 million), accusing him of orchestrating a “smear campaign” against her and describing his lawsuit as a continuation of “abuse and harassment “.
On Monday (May 23rd), entertainment industry expert Kathryn Arnold said she found the comment had no impact on Depp’s career, but the scandal surrounding it had cost Heard until to $ 50 million in profits.
Last week (Monday, May 16), Heard stated that his role in Aquaman 2 was significantly reduced in the midst of his battle with former Johnny Depp.
Speaking in court, the actor explained: “I fought very hard to stay in the film. They didn’t want to include me in the film.”
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He added: “They gave me a script and then they gave me new versions of the script that took me to action scenes. This represented my character and another character, without revealing any spoilers, two characters fighting each other.
“They basically took a lot of my paper out of me. They just took out a lot.”
According to the entertainment executive’s testimony, Aquaman’s lead actor Jason Momoa was “inflexible” for Heard to keep his role in the film.
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Aquaman 2, which is expected to hit theaters in 2023, is the highlight of Heard’s current list of acting work.
Outside of that, Heard is in the post-production stages of an Italian thriller titled In the Fire, written and directed by Conor Allyn.
Then, according to IMDB, it is expected to appear in Run Away with Me, which focuses on an American in Paris who falls in love with a model before the two intertwine in the underworld. criminal of the European modeling industry.
The dispute between Heard and Depp has provoked reactions from a number of high-profile figures. Here is a summary of the celebrities who have supported Heard, while here is a list of the celebrities who have supported Depp.
You can read The Independent’s live blog of Depp’s trial against Heard as it happens.