Amber Heard has instructed the court docket her position in Aquaman 2 was ‘pared-down’ amid her authorized battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
The actress appeared within the witness field for one more day through the prolonged trial in Virginia, United States, after Depp sued her for libel over a 2018 article she wrote in The Washington Submit which his attorneys say falsely implies he bodily and sexually abused her whereas they had been collectively.
The actor has denied all accusations, with the trial starting on April 11 in Fairfax, Virginia, and, following a brief break, resuming yesterday. Heard is countersuing for $100million (£81.2m), alleging that he libeled her by calling her a liar.
Heard continued her testimony and was requested about her position as Mera in Aquaman, alleging Warner Bros ‘didn’t need to embrace me’.
It comes after a petition calling for the actress to be eliminated from the DC sequel – which additionally stars Jason Momoa because the titular motion hero – garnered greater than 4million signatures.
She instructed the court docket on Monday: ‘I needed to struggle to, I fought actually arduous to remain within the film, they didn’t need to embrace me within the movie.’
Requested whether or not she was capable of movie for the position, she replied: ‘A really pared-down model of that position, sure.’
She went on to clarify: ‘They took away quite a bit…I used to be given a script and given new variations of the script that had taken away scenes that had motion in it, that depicted my character and one other character, with out giving any spoilers away, two characters combating with each other, they mainly took a bunch out of my position. They simply eliminated a bunch out.’
Heard additionally claimed she ‘couldn’t re-negotiate my contract’ when requested about her wage for the position.
Elsewhere within the trial yesterday Heard was cross-examined and confirmed she is but to pay the $7million (£5.6m) she pledged from her divorce settlement from Depp.
This week she instructed the court docket that she has been unable to ‘as a result of Johnny sued me for $50m (£40m) in March of 2019’.
She added: ‘I absolutely intend to honour all of my pledges. I might love for him to cease suing me so I can.’
Earlier within the present libel case, Terence Dougherty, the ACLU’s Chief Working Officer and Normal Counsel, stated that to this point solely a complete of $1.3m (£1m) has been donated both by Heard or on her behalf.
Heard is claimed to have donated $350,000 (£282k) herself in December 2018 however has not paid any cash since. Depp paid $100,000 (£80.5k) whereas one other $350,000 got here from a fund at Constancy, an funding firm.
An extra $500,000 (£403k) donation got here from an account at funding agency Vanguard, which Dougherty stated he ‘believed was a fund arrange by Elon Musk’, who Heard dated following her divorce.
The trial will finish on Thursday, Might 19, after six weeks of arguments – at which level a jury will deliberate and determine a verdict.
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