Outspoken DC Comics admirers almost obtained their desire for Amber Read to be fired from the future “Aquaman and the Missing Kingdom,” in accordance to her talent agent.
Viewers have petitioned Warner Bros. for months to clear away Listened to from the superhero film seuqel amid her controversial defamation demo with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Heard’s WME agent, Jessica Kovacevic, testified Thursday during the demo that Warner Bros. claimed it was Heard’s “lack of chemistry” with her “Aquaman” costar Jason Momoa that nearly received her canned.
Kovacevic also talked over the 36-12 months-old’s job right before and immediately after her relationship with Depp, 58, expressing Heard must have grow to be a significant star following “Aquaman,” which premiered in late 2018 and grossed above $1 billion.
The agent resolved “online rumors” that Warner Bros. desired to switch Listened to in her pre–recorded deposition, and also claimed she thought the studio needed her out as Princess Mera because of to the poor publicity stemming from the contentious courtroom case.
Kovacevic noted that in her feeling, the studio did not “want to employ an individual who has terrible press,” including, “no one particular would like that association.”
This arrives after “Never Back again Down” actress Heard alleged earlier this 7 days in the course of the trial that she “had to combat definitely challenging to preserve my career” amid her battle with the “Dark Shadows” actor.
“I lost options. I acquired dropped from work and campaigns. I fought to keep my occupation and the biggest film option I had to date [with] ‘Justice League’ with the choice to [star in] ‘Aquaman,'” she said.
“I had to struggle actually hard to remain in ‘Justice League’ because that was the time of the divorce,” Listened to included. The ex-pair were being married from 2015 until eventually 2017.
She allegedly only has about 10 minutes of display time in the sequel, out in March 2023.
Warner Bros. has not responded to requests for comment about Kovacevic and Heard’s opinions. Meanwhile, the aforementioned petition to oust Heard was published in 2020 and has given that garnered just about 4.3 million signatures.
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She also verified through the trial that the studio dramatically minimize down her role, noting they “didn’t want to consist of me.”
She discussed that she was “actively scheduling timing for filming” the motion flick up until Depp’s lawful crew reportedly released a smear campaign in opposition to her.
Read pointed out in her testimony that “communications” about the film “stopped at that level.”
“I was supplied a script and then provided new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that experienced action in it, that depicted my character and another character, with out supplying any spoilers away, two people preventing with one particular yet another, and they fundamentally took a bunch out of my position,” she advised the Fairfax, Virginia, courtroom. “They just taken off a bunch out.”
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