Amber Heard has denied rumors she has been cut from Aquaman 2. Heard was reportedly pulled from Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and her role remade earlier today (14 June), according to a source. Heard’s agent, on the other hand, has denied the rumor.

“The rumor mill continues as it has from day one – inaccurate, insensitive, and slightly insane,” a rep for Heard told The Independent.

The statement was released after gossip site Just Jared claimed that “Warner Bros decided to recast Amber Heard‘s role after screen testing the movie. They are going to be doing reshoots with Jason Momoa and Nicole Kidman.”

A campaign to remove Heard from the film completely reached its goal of 4.5 million signatures earlier this month. The petition’s goal was raised to 6 million signatures two days after a jury found in favor of Johnny Depp in the couple’s widely publicized defamation trial.

At her recent defamation trial with her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, Heard’s presence in the franchise was a frequent topic of debate. The jury decided in Depp’s favor earlier this month, finding that Heard defamed him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed about her experiences as a domestic violence survivor.

Fluctuations in the magnitude of Heard’s role in the upcoming DC sequel have been the subject of repeated rumors, but they also became a point of contention during the Depp-Heard trial, which wrapped up on June 2nd..

Heard said on the stand that her Aquaman 2 role was significantly pared down after her ex-husband’s team called her abuse claims a “hoax”. “I fought really hard to stay in the movie. They didn’t want to include me in the film,” she testified.

According to one unconfirmed Hollywood claim, Heard appears in the final cut of the film for less than ten minutes.

The film is set to hit theatres in 2023.

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Amber Heard’s defiant new interview with Today’s Savannah Guthrie has been slammed by American broadcaster Cooper Lawrence, less than two weeks after the actress was judged to have defamed her ex-husband Johnny Depp by accusing him of assault.

Lawrence, who has savaged Amber Heard on the morning show in the past, was again enlisted to discuss Heard’s upcoming US Today interview, of which a snippet was released today.

During the Sunrise interview, the radio personality took several shots at the Aquaman star, accusing her of trying to maintain a “toxic relationship” with her ex-husband Johnny Depp, despite Heard filing for divorce from Depp in 2016.

Lawrence accused Heard of “lying again” when asked about footage from her upcoming interview, in which the 36-year-old admits she has “so much regret” over her marriage to Depp while standing by her abuse allegations.

“I think she’s on the ‘you need to listen to me tour’,” Lawrence mused of Heard’s comments from her sit down with Today’s Savannah Guthrie.

“Yet she has these awkward moments that she had during the trial where you’re kind of like ‘Wait, are you lying again?’ It’s like she can’t get her own story straight that she memorized for this interview, and she’s not even under oath.”

According to her website, Lawrence, who has a Ph.D. in Psychology, went on to directly reference Heard’s remark that Depp had successfully convinced the jury due to his acting prowess, saying, “He’s the man who convinced the world that he has scissors for fingers.”

“I mean the thing is, we know that Johnny Depp doesn’t have fingers that are scissors, we also don’t think that he was once a real pirate. The whole thing is really odd and really weird and I’m trying to figure out what her intention was here,” she said to laughs from the hosts.

Barr also asked if Heard could be sued for defamation again, given that the trial’s abuse allegations have been repeated publicly.

After a jury found that Heard defamed Depp by referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in an op-ed for The Washington Post in 2018, Depp was awarded $14.4 million (AUD) in damages.

Depp sued Heard for implying he was a domestic abuser, despite the fact that she did not name him in the piece.

Heard later countersued, claiming that Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, defamed her by claiming that her allegations of abuse were “a hoax.” She was awarded $2 million by the jury.

Lawrence claimed this morning that since her divorce from Depp, Heard has been “poking the bear” because she “still wants him in her life.”

“Remember they had divorced in 2017, things were over, she said I want him to move on, I want to move on, but then she wrote this article and she’s been poking the bear ever since because she still wants him in her life even if it’s in a negative way … They do have a toxic relationship and she clearly wants to continue it.”

She went on to say she was expecting Heard to “be honest” in the interview.

“I was kinda looking for her to be more likable and more honest here and to say all the things we’ve been hoping she’d say all along which she does for like two seconds, but then she goes back to her whole, ‘Johnny’s an abuser, he’s a liar, etc’ … it’s weird.”

Agreeing that “it is weird”, Kochie wondered aloud whether Depp would sue again “just to shut her up”.

Slamming the vicious segment, author and feminist voice Clementine Ford tweeted: “Why is @sunriseon7 so invested in wheeling out people to continually pile on to a woman who has already had 12 out of 14 allegations of domestic abuse against her agreed within a UK court?

“Why is it so important to them that their viewers be fed the villainous woman fiction?”

Ford is referring to Depp’s 2020 lawsuit against The Sun over an article that labeled him a “wife-beater”. Depp lost his libel action, with the judge finding the article’s claims to be “substantially true”.

“He promised ‘global humiliation’ to the woman he also freely called a ‘cum guzzler’, a ‘wh**e’, a ‘sl*t’ and ‘fat a**’, and who he described wanting to ‘f**k the burnt dead corpse’ of. But yes, she’s the one desperate for his attention,” Ford said of Depp’s horrific texts about his ex aired in court.

She concluded, “Amber Heard has endured abuse … she’s now being abused repeatedly by a braying public who just love being given an excuse to proudly and openly flay a woman in real-time.”

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Amber Heard has spoken out for the first time publicly after a Virginia jury ruled massively in favor of her ex-husband Johnny Depp in their high-profile defamation trial. Heard appeared on TODAY, where she spoke with journalist Savannah Guthrie in a two-part interview that aired on June 14th and 15th and will be available on Peacock beginning June 16.

After their lengthy, bitter, and highly publicized defamation battle, Amber Heard stated that she still loves her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

“I love him,” the actress said in the next part of her post-trial interview with Today host Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday. “I loved him with all my heart. And I tried the best I could to make a deeply broken relationship work. I couldn’t. No bad feelings or ill will towards him at all. I know that might be hard to understand, or it might be really easy to understand. If you’ve ever loved anyone, it should be easy.”

Heard also hypothesized that many people who have been in love may connect to that lingering sense, despite their relationship’s obviously bad turn. She emphasized that she did not want Depp to be “canceled,” which was part of the motivation for not mentioning him explicitly in the op-ed piece on which the lawsuit was based.

The trial was prompted by an op-ed Heard wrote for The Washington Post in 2018, in which she detailed her experience as a survivor of domestic violence. Depp’s lawyers argued that the poem clearly referred to Depp even though he was not mentioned by name. Guthrie pressed Heard, and she stated that she had not intended to harm or “cancel” her ex-husband.

.@SavannahGuthrie: On the first day of the trial you issued a statement, and part of the statement said, 'I still have love for Johnny.'

Amber Heard: Yes.

SG: Is that still true?

AH: Yes.

SG: After everything?

AH: Absolutely. I love him. I loved him with all my heart. pic.twitter.com/h49L6XdYuR

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) June 15, 2022

“The op-ed wasn’t about my relationship with Johnny,” she said. “What the op-ed was about was me loaning my voice to a bigger cultural conversation that we were having at the time.”

“The op-ed wasn’t about my relationship with Johnny,” she said. “What the op-ed was about was me loaning my voice to a bigger cultural conversation that we were having at the time.”

Though Heard admitted that she’s worried about the silencing effect of losing the defamation case — “which I guess is what a defamation lawsuit is meant to do: take your voice” — she said she was looking forward to enjoying certain aspects of her post-trial life.

“I get to be a mom full-time, where I’m not having to juggle calls with lawyers,” Heard said.

Heard’s post-trial interview is set to conclude on this Friday’s episode of Dateline.

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Kanye West slammed Adidas and its CEO after claiming that they had cloned a pair of his Yeezy slides. Kanye West has slammed Adidas for “blatantly copying” his Yeezy slides.

The rapper and sports business have been working together for nearly a decade, but he has blasted their most recent release, the Adilette slides.

The brand’s new shoes were introduced earlier this month, but the 45-year-old Gold Digger singer called them “fake Yeezys.”

He called out the company’s CEO Kasper Rorstad in an upset Instagram post on Monday, writing: “THIS IS YE driving down the same street Kobe passed on. Maybe I feel that Mamba spirit right now.

“To Kasper I’m not standing for this blatant copying no more. To all sneaker culture To every ball player rapper or even if you work at the store This is for everyone who wants to express themselves but feels they can’t cause they’ll lose their contract or be called crazy.

“Bravery is not being afraid. Bravery is overcoming your fear of your truth. This Ye with the blue paint on my face.”

He continued: “These shoes represent the disrespect that people in power have to the talent. This shoe is a fake Yeezy made by Adidas themselves I’m not talking to DC about this either Kasper come to talk to me. Happy Monday.”

Although it’s unknown whether the two are still working together, Adidas’ CEO has previously defended Kanye and his inflammatory remarks.

While the rapper now known as Ye was slamming on Instagram, ex-wife Kim Kardashian appeared to be in a much better mood, sharing lovely images with new beau Pete Davidson.

In the photo, the reality star is wearing a little black string bikini as she stands alongside the former Saturday Night Live actor in crystal blue water, kissing.

Pete stood naked and tattooed, wearing identical black swim trunks and black Prada sunglasses.

Kim acknowledged in a recent episode of The Kardashians that she had been attempting to shield Pete from the public drama that comes with dating her.

Kanye has regularly taken shots at Pete and the pair’s relationship, but Kim said in a confessional on the show: “I never want the person I’m dating to be subjected to public scrutiny just because we’re dating.

“He knows what he’s getting himself into, but I’m trying to minimize any tabloid drama.”

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Amber Heard sat down for an interview with Savannah Guthrie of NBC News, which will appear on Today on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as on a Friday Dateline special.

In the trailer, Heard says she doesn’t blame the jury for finding her ex-husband defamed the Pirates of the Caribbean actor in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed, and she labels him a “fantastic actor.” She also talks about the “hate and vitriol” directed at her on social media, which she claims is unfair.

I don’t blame them,” she said of the Fairfax, Va., jury, which unanimously found that Heard defamed Depp and awarded him $10.35 million in damages on June 1. “I actually understand. He’s a beloved character and people feel they know him. He’s a fantastic actor.”

Guthrie said there was no kind way to phrase it, but the jury concluded Heard was “lying” after hearing her evidence.

“How could they … not come to that conclusion,” Heard replied. “They had sat in those seats and heard over three weeks of non-stop relentless testimony from [Depp’s] paid employees, and toward the end of the trial [random people] … about how I was a non-credible person [and] not to believe a word that came out of my mouth.”

Heard, who was married to her Rum Diaries co-star, 59, from 2015 to 2016, also discussed the trial’s media frenzy, including the negative social media plot about her.

“I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors,” Heard said. “I don’t presume the average person should know those things. And so I don’t take it personally.”

She continued, “But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation. You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”

Heard’s spokesperson shared her motivation for the NBC News interview, “Johnny Depp’s legal team blanketed the media for days after the verdict with numerous statements and interviews on television, and Depp himself did the same on social media. Ms. Heard simply intended to respond to what they aggressively did last week; she did so by expressing her thoughts and feelings, much of which she was not allowed to do on the witness stand.”

Guthrie has interviewed Heard and Depp’s attorneys after the verdict. Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, Heard’s attorney, said Depp’s legal team “demonized” Heard during the hearing, and she doubted the jury was able to avoid seeing social media stories about the case, as the judge instructed.

“There’s no way they couldn’t have been influenced,” said Bredehoft, who noted Heard would appeal. “And it was horrible. [The coverage] really, really was lopsided” to Depp’s benefit. “It was like the Roman Colosseum.”

Depp’s lawyers called it “utterly baseless” and “categorically false” that Depp or his team orchestrated an online smear campaign against Heard.

During the trial, Depp was a clear favorite on social media, with the hashtag #JusticeForJohnnyDepp earning over 20 billion TikTok views and the hashtag #JusticeForAmberHeard receiving only 91 million views.

Depp, who has been celebrating his victory, joined TikTok last week to thank fans for their support, telling them, “We did the right thing together.”

He sued for her $50 million, denying all allegations of abuse and alleging that the article hurt his career, and she countersued for $100 million. In addition to Depp being awarded $10.35 million, the jury awarded Heard $2 million for comments Depp’s lawyer made calling her abuse allegations a “hoax.”

Clips of Heard’s interview will air on Today on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Then more of the conversation air Friday at 8 p.m. ET.

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Amber Heard doesn’t hold it against jurors in the defamation trial pitting her against fellow actor and ex-husband Johnny Depp over domestic abuse allegations, but she does call the social media commentary surrounding the case “unfair” to her, she said in her first remarks since the blockbuster verdict.

Heard made the comments during a sit-down interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, which aired as a preview on the network’s Today show on Monday morning.

“I don’t blame [the jury] – I actually understand,” Heard said of the verdict favoring Depp. “He’s a beloved character, and people feel they know him. He’s a fantastic actor.”

Heard, on the other hand, was scathing of social media critics, claiming that they were disproportionately and overly biased in favor of Depp during the seven-week trial. The TikTok hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp received about 20 billion views, while #justiceforamberheard garnered roughly 80 million, according to an NBC report accompanying the preview of Heard’s interview.

Meanwhile, #amberheardisguilty and similarly themed hashtags accumulated 900m views, NBC reported.

“I don’t care what one thinks about me or what judgments you want to make about what happened in the privacy of my own home, in my marriage, behind closed doors,” Heard said. “I don’t presume the average person should know those things. And so I don’t take it personally.

“But even somebody who is sure I’m deserving of all this hate and vitriol, even if you think that I’m lying, you still couldn’t look me in the eye and tell me that you think on social media there’s been a fair representation. You cannot tell me that you think that this has been fair.”

On June 1, a Virginia jury awarded Depp $15 million for three counts of defamation he alleged Heard committed against him in a 2018 Washington Post column. In the poem, Heard referred to herself as “a public figure symbolizing domestic abuse,” but she did not mention Depp by name.

The award to the actor who had starred in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was eventually reduced to $10.35 million by the judge presiding over the case.

Heard succeeded on one counterclaim, with jurors awarding her $2 million after she claimed that a Depp publicity representative defamed her by labeling her allegations “an abuse fabrication” intended to capitalise on the #MeToo movement.

The jury’s decision came after scores of witnesses and experts testified on whether Depp was abusive to Heard – or the other way around – during their 15-month marriage, which ended in 2016. Heard has stated that she intends to appeal the jury’s ruling, while Depp praised them for “giving him his life back,” as he phrased it.

During the trial, both actors gave lengthy testimony.

A spokesman for Heard claimed in a statement on Monday that the actor’s interview with Guthrie was in response to Depp’s post-verdict media appearances.

“Ms. Heard simply intended to respond to what they aggressively did … [and] she did so by expressing her thoughts and feelings, much of which she was not allowed to do on the witness stand,” the statement added.

The Today show will schedule Heard’s interview on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Dateline NBC will air it on Friday at 8 p.m. ET.

Source: dailymail.co.uk