The actress said she bargained with Depp to appear in the 2015 film Magic Mike XXL.
“I wasn’t going to play a sexualized character,” she testified.
“I wore minimal makeup.”
Amber Heard in court.JIM LO SCALZO / POOL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
She testified, “What he said to me was I didn’t tell him.
I didn’t ask him.
I ended up not doing that audition.”
Amber Heard in ‘Magic Mike XXL’.Claudette Barius/Warner Bros.
She continued: “He said, ‘I’m trying to look out for you.
You’re saying you don’t want to be objectified, but you’re doing it.’
It got more narrow and more narrow about what I could do.”
Heard said it was “hard for me to work, justify working.
Every audition, every meeting, every script I got was a negotiation or a fight.
I’ve always been really independent, and I never imagined not working.
I’ve worked from the earliest time I can imagine.
I come from parents who worked until they literally couldn’t anymore.
I never imagined myself having to explain my job or justify my job, but I did.”
“He hated, hated James Franco,” Heard testified.
Depp issuing Heard for $50 millionover her 2018Washington Postop-ed chronicling her experiences as domestic abuse survivor.
