Amber Heard, ‘triple threat,’ covers W mag: I ‘can go trailer park really fast’

Amber Heard

Amber Heard covers the June/July issue of W magazine. I wanted to write a whole post about her without mentioning the Scarfmonster, but W has labeled her as “actress, model, and the future Mrs. Johnny Depp.” On the cover. Is Amber a really “triple threat“? She’s a decent actress and a gorgeous model when styled well. She’s probably gunning for some major spokesmodel gigs, which she might get. But I don’t think anyone in Hollywood is threatened by Amber because she’s with Johnny. She’s not getting better roles, and her movies aren’t doing well. She gets a nicer set trailer because Johnny will pull strings, but that’s all. Oh and she scores lots of magazine covers now.

I do think it’s a shame how mags directly mention Johnny on Amber’s covers. In January, Amber covered Jalouse as “Johnny Depp’s girlfriend.” The mags want to move copy, which is understandable from a publisher’s POV. I’d still be embarrassed about it if I was Amber, but maybe it doesn’t bother her to be labelled this way. Here are some interview excerpts:

On being the future Mrs. Depp: “I haven’t noticed any change in my career. And, for better or worse, I’ve always had a love life that seemed particularly salacious to some people. Before, it was also seen as unconventional.”

Growing up Texas: “Whenever my old friends meet someone I’m involved with romantically, they immediately warn them: ‘She may look refined, but when she’s angry, she can go trailer park really fast.'”

[From W magazine]

I guess “go trailer park” means that Amber is prone to outbursts when provoked. That’s very stereotypical. Amber really has no idea what it’s like to hang out in a trailer park. Michael K at DListed points out that Amber was educated at a parochial school, and he has a point. Amber has been chatting up her Texas upbringing for the past year, but she also tells everyone that she was so stifled by her private schooling. So which is it? Girlfriend has made too many B-movies and thinks she knows what “white trash” means. I still admire her press game, but she needs to dream up some clarified talking points.

The W shoot seems sterile. They’ve put Amber in lingerie, and she’s striking several provocative poses, but the styling is off. Her makeup is supposed to be edgy, but she looks like a mime modelling for Victoria’s Secret.

Amber Heard

Photos courtesy of W magazine

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  1. JennySerenity says:

    Of COURSE she can “go trailer park really fast.” It is the girl’s natural habitat. You can’t just shake that off with modeling and elocution lessons.

    Oh, Vanessa Paradis….we hardly knew ye.

    • QQ says:

      we dont call her Walmart Johansen in these parts for free

      Also Triple Threat?! Girlfriend, 2nd tier Magazine Covergirl and … Texan?? Or what?

      • kri says:

        QQ LOL!!

      • Jess says:

        Lol!!!

      • mercy says:

        I wouldn’t insult trailer park dwellers like that. Walmart is fair game, though. I think they both could qualify as budget in terms of talent, style, and personality. One just got luckier than the other early in her career. At least Amber isn’t taking roles from better actresses, or the weak spot in otherwise good films. Yet.

      • GirlyGIrl says:

        true dat

        i always thought triple threat (in hollywood) meant acting, singing and dancing. I guess to W it means, acting poorly, standing with clothes on and being a wife

  2. Sullivan says:

    She was more interesting when she was dating the photographer, but that’s mostly because she wasn’t doing many (any?) interviews so she had an air of mystery. Turns out, there really isn’t anything interesting or uncommon about her.

  3. Frida_K says:

    Snore.

  4. cassie says:

    When did she “happen”?? Never heard of her until her association with JD.

  5. Jegede says:

    Every SINGLE cover Amber has had in the past year………….

    …….has made sure to mention Johnny Depp right in the cover text.

    Which explains it all

    • kri says:

      She is totally a triple threat, you guys! Boring, untalented and dim. Three things that really threaten me. if I had to interview this kumquat I would puncture my own eardrums and just record her.

    • mercy says:

      I can understand why. Publications know the general public likes reading about celeb couples. They do it to men, too, though not as often. As in ‘Aren’t they lucky, being with…’ What’s so awful about this header is the context. Even if it’s true, how crass and frankly humiliating to list him alongside the ‘talents’ that make her a ‘triple threat.’ Completely undercuts her work, not to mention her own words.

  6. GIRLFACE says:

    Meh. She’s not fooling anyone who actually went to an oppressive parochial school in middle America, that’s for sure.

  7. InvaderTak says:

    Shut up about Texas. I’m from Texas too; from a small town an hour outside of Dallas. A real small town. You are from Austin, you twit. Not a small town outside of it, not even a suburb. Shut up. There are a good many good people who live in trailer parks who are simply poor, or actually like living like that. Stop being stereotypical. Stop exaggerating. You and Miranda Lambert can both loss my Lone Star as$

    • Oceansoul89 says:

      Exactly! I’ve met some really good people that just so happen to live in a trailer park. Good hard working people. I’ve also met assholes that just so happen to live in the so called “rich” part of town. Someones’ personality is not determined by WHERE they live.

    • Renee says:

      Yes,

      Her comment is pretty classist!! And there are many instances of people with money behaving in trashy ways, for example, the British monarchy. Also, I live in Texas right now and the way that she describes it is not how I’ve experienced it. Apart from the guns, a lot of people do have guns but I don’t really think that I need to be in Texas to experience that.

      • GIRLFACE says:

        You don’t. Lots of people have guns everywhere and I’m sorry but Austin is probably the least ” oppressive” place you could possibly grow up in the south. Texas definitely has a huge population and dozens of major metropolitan cities with three huge, international cities. I don’t get it either. Seriously a classist comment. And parochial school in the south is much different than she describes. It just sounds like she was angsty and went to CA and she had to make the story better.

      • Renee says:

        Austin is not really that diverse though, and that presents its own type of oppression because everyone positions it as being this hip, open place, accepting, progressive place when the truth is that it is those things apply only if you fit into specific demographics, and if you don’t fit into those demographics it can be a difficult place . There are places in Texas that are more diverse, although they are super segregated, like Houston and Dallas.

        But I do agree, this narrative of Texas that she has constructed is ridiculous. Thank you for perpetuating stereotypes of the South, Amber.

      • Ag-UK says:

        I am from Houston and lived in Austin for 4 years I liked it but for me too small (lived in NYC too long ) I can tell you I35 divides the city Hispanics/blacks on the East everyone else on the west. Not small town like she makes it out to be.

      • Amulla says:

        I think Austin with its faux hippies is a way-over rated place to live, and perfectly miserable in the summertime when temps can get way over 100 degrees.

    • kri says:

      Yes to this. I hate the phrase “white trash”. It is disgusting. I also hate the trailer trash phrase, because it is another generalization and it feeds a sterotype/prejudice. “Trashy” is enough of a descriptor-it can apply to anyone or anything, without implying race or socio-economic circumstances. As in ” Amber Heard proves she is trashy”. We all get that, right?

      • Kemper says:

        Yes! As a “tralier park dweller”, I am not an short-tempered baby mama lacking in manners or consideration of other. The same can be said for my hard working neighbors. That said, we are not stupid & can smell a white trash famewh*re wherever a cloth or paper napkin is provided. Bless her heart.

      • Amulla says:

        Someone could even get offended over using the word trashy, though.

        There is nothing safe to say these days, let’s face it.

    • heliumk says:

      Thank you- I hate when people use that term, it’s so gross and classiest. She’s a total poser and uses a lot of cliches to try to distinguish herself from the Hollywood pack when all I get from her is pretty but boring.

    • The Other Katherine says:

      No freakin’ kidding.

      1. Girlfriend ain’t never set foot in no damn trailer park.
      2. If she had, she might understand that it is possible to live in a mobile home and have disagreements without screaming, name-calling, or waving firearms.
      3. I lived in Austin for nearly 20 years. St. Michael’s (the private school Amber went to) is where rich people who aren’t die-hard Protestants send their kids when living in Westlake and going to one of the best public schools in Texas just isn’t special enough for their princess. It’s like sending your son to Strake Jesuit in Houston, except not as tony.

      Sit your bisexual self down, Amber. If you want to be taken seriously, stop using your relationship with Johnny Depp as a media ploy, because that whole tactic reeks of straight privilege.

    • Ashley says:

      What does having to grow up in a small town have to do with being Texan? Because I was born and raised in San Antonio, I’m not allowed to be a Texan?

      As for Austin, true it’s not a small town but it’s also no Houston or Dallas or even San Antonio. One of the good things about Austin is that it does retain (or used to) that small town feel. It’s much lazier than it’s larger counterparts and that’s one of it’s draws. But yes compared to the rest of Texas, Austin is in a field of it’s own. Thank god too because it’s the only thing that doesn’t make us all look like backward hicks.

      I won’t call her out on her comment though. I grew up in a wealthy middle class suburb and I can tell you I can get hood pretty quickly, despite not being from “the hood”. It’s an expression people.

  8. Sighs says:

    Ugh. Don’t bastardize the “triple threat” with modeling and being someone’s fiancé. WTF? It’s insulting to people who actually are triple threats. I don’t know why, but I really can’t stand this woman.

    • zinjojo says:

      Exactly what I was coming to say, since when does being an actress, model and someone’s girlfriend constitute a triple threat??? I thought it referred to talent across multiple disciplines, as in actor, singer, dancer or maybe actor, writer, director. Girlfriend just doesn’t do it. She repels me.

      • Sighs says:

        Triple threat (at least in the theatre, where I believe it originated) means you can act/sing/dance. This girl is not that.
        Girlfriend, my @ss. Make her go away!

    • Tanguerita says:

      +100. Plus – “decent actress” is the overstatement of the year.

  9. Dani2 says:

    *Snore*

  10. don't kill me i'm french says:

    Rooney Mara’s wanabe on cover!

  11. Cynthia says:

    Oh, Johnny…just DON’T.

    • Tanguerita says:

      Johnny you are talking about is long gone. Sometimes i wonder if he’d even been there in the first place.

      • Shannon1972 says:

        Sadly, I wonder the same thing. I thought he would be my forever celeb crush, but I am so turned off to him these days. Guess I will have to console myself with Hiddleston.

      • Pp says:

        Oh please, Johnny hasn’t changed at all and if you think he is “long gone” then you probably didn’t ‘get’ him that well. All people who actually know him know that he hasn’t changed at all and is still the great, sweet, charming, etc guy he’s been his whole life.

  12. zut alors! says:

    Being Johnny Depp’s fiance is now considered a marketable skill?

    • LadySlippers says:

      Apparently.

      *eye roll*

      (Personally I would want to be known for my own skills and not so-and-so’s significant other/fiancée/wife. But I guess that makes me weird)

  13. bettyrose says:

    I don’t care what career you’re in…when all they say about you is that you’re so-and-so’s wife, this is the end of the line for you professionally

    • frisbeejada says:

      exactly – and I thought she was supposed to be so feminist – when did being defined as an actor’s (and in Depp’s case I use the term ‘actor’ advisedly) woman make any woman a feminist?

    • mercy says:

      I can understand the interest, and even including his name in the cover headline. But when they use him in that context, like he is one of her assets that makes her a “triple threat”? How embarrassing. It makes her look like she doesn’t have much going on in her own right, and totally contradicts her comment about not being treated differently.

      • bettyrose says:

        Yeah, the headline could be something like “X talks about career, ambition, and life with Y . . .” but the largest text refers to X as “future Mrs. Y” that pretty much says it all.

    • Emily C. says:

      The only way it might be a career boost is if you’re the wife of the president. But that’s a career in itself. But being a celebrity’s wife? It’s ludicrous.

  14. nicegirl says:

    The ‘white trash’, again, specifically, the ‘white’ part, is, truly, OFFENSIVE. Let’s stop. If you are confused, think of it with a DIFFERENT race moniker in front of ‘trash’ . . .

    • MrsBPitt says:

      THIS!!! Thank you, nicegirl!

    • mercy says:

      Yes, people need to stop applying colour to ‘trash’ and stop stereotyping people who happen to live in trailer parks.

    • fairyvexed says:

      Yeah…..no. Just switching colors doesn’t work. Look at Congress at any point in this country’s history and try and say that “white trash” and “another race” are the same bigoted terms. Black people are still discriminated against to this day; white people have never been slaves. “White trash” is classist, but you can change your class. What CAN’T you change, kiddies?

  15. Erm says:

    You mean she’s not supposed to look like a mime? Yikes, that is some seriously bad makeup!

  16. TC says:

    Hollywood’s really trying to make Heard happen, but it doesn’t really seem to be working. Other than getting tons of crappy film roles and an aging Depp in a mid-life crisis, I don’t see what she’s actually gained.

    • Pp says:

      What did Depp do to be going through a mid-life crisis? Seriously? Yes, he’s aging but he’s still gorgeous with an amazing persona and he’s still desired by millions of women all over the world.

  17. MrsBPitt says:

    Johnny can try to make Amber happen all he wants, but, bottom line is, she is a TERRIBLE actress. And the funny thing is, since they have been together, Amber’s “career” hasn’t gotten better, but Johnny’s has gotten TERRIBLE! He hasn’t had a good movie since they’ve been together…DUMP HER, JOHNNY!

    • Suky says:

      You are so right. And to be honest, I actually cringe when I see this woman.

    • mercy says:

      “He hasn’t had a good movie since they’ve been together”

      I wouldn’t blame her for that. He signed onto a time consuming franchise and Tim Burton spectacles long before Amber, for better or worse.

  18. lisa2 says:

    I really think it is impossible to “make someone happen”. It just does. When it is forced it never works. If you look at the STARS that are still relevant today the majority of them just exploded on the screen. Which is why they are still on the top of their game.

    If Amber was going to hit it big it would have happened by now. She is not the only one.. The list gets longer and longer

  19. TheOriginalKitten says:

    Yes Amber you’re just so complex-you have the looks of a model but you can get “street” like a tough chick. You’re the girl’s girl and the Tomboy, you are fire, spice, and sugar all wrapped into one.
    Is anybody really buying what this chick is selling?

    And yeah, the term “trailer park” or “trailer trash” is f*cking insulting. Ugh. This chick.

  20. Emily C. says:

    She talks a lot about how other people (supposedly) see her, doesn’t she? She thinks other people think her overprivileged snorezville life is “unconventional”; she claims her friends use a classist slur to describe her supposed horrible temper, though she obviously thinks having a terrible temper makes her cool rather than obnoxious. What does SHE think of herself, without hiding behind the (possibly imagined) opinions of others?

    She’s just… so cliche. There is nothing to her.

  21. Sarah says:

    She is not edgy enough to be trailer park… She is about as beige as they come.

  22. LOL! at Vanessa's headline says:

    At least Amber is his current girlfriend

    Vanessa and Johnny broke up 2 or 3 years ago, and look at the headline that “The Independent” put to Vanessa’s new interview yesterday:

    “Johnny Depp and me: Vanessa Paradis on acting, gigging and life after a break up”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/johnny-depp-and-me-vanessa-paradis-on-acting-gigging-and-life-after-a-break-up-9422069.html

    That’s kind of pathetic. So, It doesn’t matter that she’s dating another man (which it’s true. just look for the cover of “Paris Match) and promoting whatever works she did, still her biggest accomplishment it’s to be “Johnny Depp’s former girlfriend”

    • mercy says:

      Outside of her home country, Vanessa probably is best known as Johnny’s ex and mother of his children, but that’s a pretty standard headline for one half of a celeb couple, past or present. I’ve seen similar used for bigger ‘names’ than her. At least they’re not calling her a ‘triple threat’ because she acts, sings, and was with Depp, like they’re all her career accomplishments. Even if you believe that’s true, for a magazine to put it that way would be rather insulting and indicative of how little respect they have for her career.

  23. jenny says:

    The problem is Amber Heard did’nt prove anything yet… in the talent department! When she talks about her career, her work, how she dont want to be a celebrity, i feel she talks about someone else!

  24. Calcifer says:

    Looks like a change of strategy for Amber. I guess that, by explicitly labelling herself as a model now, she’s aiming to earn some serious money as the ‘face’ of prestigious brands, like Scarlett Johansen has done in the past years. This interview is basically an advertisement for that, like announcing that she’s available for posing with Prada bags. I guess her appearance on the red carpet for a jewellery company last week in Cannes was also a step in that direction.

  25. Snowpea says:

    They keep trying make Amber happen…aint gonna work. You HEARD it hear first. 😉

  26. Crikey, “boyfriend of Depp” is now one of the three points of the triple threat? Feminism really is dead.

  27. ShakenNotStirred says:

    I’d rather look at Vanessa Paradis’s gap toothed grin then see this chick. She’s insufferable.

  28. Mitch Buchanan Rocks! says:

    It looks like the stylist is a Rooney Mara fan.

  29. Soulange says:

    I doubt her comment is a lie..

  30. Genie says:

    Her comment, putting down people who live in trailer parks, gives us a huge clue to who she really is.