Amber Heard covers the July issue of Elle in a malliot swimsuit, 1980s hair combo that looks straight out of a Jane Fonda workout video. The editorial is much better. Amber’s promoting her role in Magic Mike XXL. She’s also promoting her marriage to Johnny Depp. I don’t mean that as shade. Amber talks about Johnny with Elle. Johnny used to sleepily interrupt her interviews, and Amber does leak gossip to her friends (to test them). But she has never discussed their relationship with a magazine until now.
Amber also spends a chunk of the interview complaining about fame and her career. She’s made no secret of wanting to be Action Jolie and disliking “hot” roles. Now Amber’s discussing all of the scripts she has to reject. It’s interesting:
On her marriage to Johnny: “I fall in love again and again. Nothing is a dramatic change. We’ve been together for a long time now, so it’s been a fairly organic process. I have a fiercely independent spirit.”
On the dearth of female roles: “I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he’s funny because she’s serious and she’s mad at him. We know he’s strong because she needs saving. So really her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male. I mean we’re trying to imitate life, and it seems to me a deeply saddening injustice that we are so uncreative and uninterested in developing representations of female life.”
She hates being placed in a Barbie box: “I feel like I’m constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself because of how I look or perhaps because of who I’m with.”
Her fear of fame: “The thing that really scares me is the potential of losing my freedom. I never want for my life to lose the ability to transverse the world, with freedom and ease. The freedom and ease I have worked so hard to acquire for myself.”
[From Elle]
Piles of scripts. That’s the part that throws Amber’s story off. Everyone knows that female roles in Hollywood are rarely as meaty as men’s roles But Amber tossed in a visual to represent how in demand she is as an actress. She’s promoting Magic Mike XXL, not high art. Maybe I’m reading too much into it. She’s pretty tough in a few movies (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and Syrup) and has a sultry appeal, but Amber is not an amazing actress. She can turn on the charm or appear cold as ice. Those are her two onscreen modes.
I don’t know when the Elle interview happened, but it also feels like damage control. Amber’s never been open about her private life. Why now?
P.S. Yesterday was Johnny’s 52nd birthday. Entertainment Weekly put together a tribute.
Well, at least one person is still falling in love with Johnny Depp. *shudders*
ha ha, truth.
I saw his vintage birthday photo on DListed yesterday… God, what a waste.
😀
I’m still falling in love Johnny Depp.
Read: “I fall out of love again and again…”
Thats what I took away from that phrasing too. Also, wtf with the pose in the last picture? Awkward, frog-like realness.
Exactly. She must fall out, and then fall back in. Healthy relationships shouldn’t have such extreme ebbs and flows.
Read: ‘I fall in love again and again… When he has his monthly shower, mostly.’
Maybe that coincides with his monthly financial statements…oooh..all those Big numbers! 😁💰
Must be nice to make snarky comments about someone you have never been around and get all your information from gossip. He’s a nice guy, and as someone that has been around him a few times…his grooming is fine. But, I guess hate is funnier.
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I have to wonder if I would even know who she was if I didn’t follow celebrity gossip. Does she really need to worry about losing her freedom because of her fame?
Yes, a derisive snort escaped my face region when I read that. She’s worked about as hard for her privacy and freedom as we have. Maybe when she’s with her husband it’s an issue but her pap walking her ass off by herself? Not so much.
LOL Right! Whilst The Tiniest Violin ever Played a sad Mournful tune for Homegirl… Or as I Like to Call her Walmart Johansen
Really?
Well good for her, I suppose.
I do wish these celebrities would stop
complaining about their fame, though.
If they don´t want it, why participate in the
first Place?
Because they love cultivating the image that they’re just so talented and interesting as individuals that they’ve been pushed into the limelight against their will. A tragic human sacrifice to their own brilliance.
I want to hear just one celebrity, even a Kardashian, say ‘Fame is f*cking great! I love it! Look, I’ll Instagram a shot of my toenail. Bam! It’s got more likes in two seconds than you’ll ever get with all of your social media usage combined! Want some free stuff? Watch this! Yo! I’m famous! Gimme that! Yeah, thanks. Isn’t this cool?’
Sh*t I wish I was famous.
That really made me crack up. I wouldn’t want to be famous it seems to me that most people wouldn’t, they just want peaceful, quiet lives. People who do pursue it, like cakepopsie said should really stop complaining about it. At one point I actually believed that celebrities were ruthlessly chased by the media who made their lives hell, until I started reading sites like this and realised that it’s all just a game controlled by very expensive PR companies paid to construct and promote a particular money making image. They will always be prevented by PR from admitting they love it/want it/need it but it would be great if just once, one of them was honest about their motivations.
Alicia Vikander had said she wanted to be better known and she got a ton of doodoo for it. But I agree that this fake “fame is so terrible” thing is annoying. Clearly an actress who wants Hollywood movie roles and gets together with Johnny Frigging Deep wants an anonymous, private life.
Miffy, I am going to applaud this comment all day long 😉
Fame is darn great! When I was in professional sports, albeit not comparable to those guys’ level of fame, we all loved it! It was freaking awesome! Why pretend? Besides any field, any profession, that requires audience and their approval is clear from the very beginning. It’s ridiculous to try and convince people that you didn’t know! In order to be a success you need to be famous because much of it is business indeed. And it’s cool! God, I wish I still had all the benefits from this bad bad fame!
lol. brilliant!
Just when I thought I couldn’t dislike Amber Heard more, here she is, breathtakingly beautiful, showing lots and lots of skin, and complaining – from the comfort zone of her marriage to a very rich man – about how much she hates being locked into a Barbie box . Has the height of hypocrisy been reached yet?
It’s like she makes an effort to be annoying and obnoxious. And this free spirit sh**t is getting old.
Yes, and her insisting again and again on being ‘fiercely independent’ is starting to make me wonder… What does Amber Heard actually DO that makes independence not only an empty advertising slogan for her ‘brand’, but which translates it into something of concrete value for herself and for others?
Who the hell talks about themselves in such cliches? “I have a fiercely independent spirit”? Is that why she glommed on to a creepy old rich guy? How fiercely independent of her!
I don’t know what you mean. Her independence is soooo important to her, and believable too. That’s why she insisted they get married on HER private island with HER money and never drops mention of her vastly more famous husband at every given opportunity. Yeah! Independence! Get it, gurl!
Totally agree. She’s so ‘free’ that she married a man twice her age, follows him around to the sets of the movies HE still makes to support them while she has small parts in the occasional movie, lives in his houses and on his property, and doesn’t have much of a career besides rejecting scripts for being too focused on eye candy and not enough on real women, and doing the occasional photo shoot/interview. Yet she is pretty much living out the ultimate ‘was saved by a rich man because she’s so beautiful’ lifestyle herself. If she hadn’t hooked up with Depp she would not be on the cover of this magazine right now.
I saw her in the movie with Depp and she was pretty bland. Just there to be beautiful (and she is, no shade at all, she’s gorg). I also saw her in that Mandy Lane movie which was just ok. Not much substance – she was the typical sweet, innocent, hot girl until the end. I get what she’s saying about roles made for ‘hot girls’ but if she doesn’t like those then she must have enough money to open up a small production company, hire a writer, come up with ideas, even write a female-focused script herself instead of complaining that other people aren’t doing it. No doubt Depp would support that. All of his lovers before Amber had other things going on and he never seemed to mind. Winona, great and in demand actress. Kate, great and in demand model. Vanessa, great model, actress, singer, mother. Amber….great…. fiercely independent script rejector. What a downgrade.
Nailed it SilkyP.
She wants different parts, yet continues to present herself as just another Hollywood pretty face. She could easily change up her look, or even take on a small independent film or two in a grittier role and prove herself as a versatile actor (well, assuming she really can carry a role like that).
And if I hear the “I’m a free-spirit, I’m so independent” BS one more time I think I’ll throw up. Who does she think she’s fooling?
But she has been taking roles in more indie things like the Danish Girl. And i think she is annoyed that the fact there is roles where the female is there just to validate males in general.
I ran across a film called The Informers that she starred in, and it was great. Really awful subject–early AIDS epidemic–but she was amazing in that. I have never heard anyone talk about it, perhaps an indie, but it was so powerful that to this day, I still shudder at the memory of the final scene she was in… Strongly recommend it and wish she would go back to doing that kind of work.
Tell it. She’s scared of losing her freedom to fame, yet she married a man who’s twice her age with one of the most recognizable names in the world? For all the right reasons, I’m sure. *snorts*
Shill that marriage and complain about fame in the same breath, girl. It’s hilarious.
She’s self deluding, she believed implicitly in her own image to the point that she filters out any other information that doesn’t fit in with it. Married to an old rich guy? Irrelevant! She has no idea how hypocritical she is.
That bit about not wanting to be cast as Barbie would be easier to believe if she hadn’t accepted a television series role as a bunny in a Playboy club.
*sizzles from the second-hand BURN*
*standing ovation*
Another standing ovation whilst jumping up and down cheering ‘hoorah’ madly at the back.
nothing says “i’m a serious actress not just eye candy” like posing with your legs spread.
Not once, but twice!
That’s her favorite organic position and it’s getting her where she wants to go, falling in and out of love, fiercely and independently, or independently fiercely, whatever.
Exactly, these pictures are trashy as hell. I don’t really get why these pics that look like they should be in Maxim are in Elle?
“Fighting against (my) exterior”…yep, keep fighting, Amber…with your legs spread on the cover of Elle.
Her constant self victimisation is tiresome.
She cashes in on her femme fatale persona ‘exterior’ in almost every movie and pap shot.
But has only starred in a string of flops in both TV and Film.
(Syrup and 3 days to Kill made about $40 at the Boxoffice)
That Amber’s still getting magazine covers or a “stack of scripts”, is wholly down to the exterior, and not because of any discernible performance or putting bums on seats.
And whats with all these actresses going on about how they’re too beautiful for Hollywood to know what to do with?
I mean someone as luminous as Charlize Theron gets on fine.
Yes! Exactly!
Luckily Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Keira Knightley, Scarlett Johanssen, Natalie Portman, Rosamund Pike, Angelina Jolie, Margot Robbie, Diane Krueger, Jessica Chastain, Elizabeth Olsen, Rachel McAdams, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Garner, Eva Mendes and Sienna Miller are all sufficiently unattractive to find a place in Hollywood.
She lost me at “organic”.
Let’s be grateful that she didn’t refer to her “craft”…
Dim.
Dim, and dense.
Dim, and dense, and dull.
If she wants to be taken seriously as an actress (a “prim” rather than a “skin”), maybe she could star in “Dense and Densibility”…?
Amber’s an ok actress. I think it’s funny when actors base their career on a certain quality and then deny. Whatever her personal qualities, would Johnny even have bothered to find out if he hadn’t been attracted to her physically? No. Nor would she have been cast in ANY of the roles she’s had so far. So shut up about it.
Same with Melissa McCarthy – one hand it’s kind of great she put that interviewer in his place, but on the other her whole career is based on playing a stereotype.
Excellent points.
Does anyone remember Johnny Depp being like Amber on this issue? When he got locked into 21 Jumpstreet he made a point to not get trapped into that “pretty boy” stereotype. And he has often gone out of his way to find odd characters that wear so much clothing or makeup to obscure his looks. Well, maybe Johnny is egging Amber on. Though I don’t see Amber doing well if she dressed up like, say, the Mad Hatter.
What happened in the Melissa McCarthy interview? Do you have a link?
Uh huh. And the girlfriend she keeps stashed away. She’s busy.
She is a gorgeous girl, but she looks dumb and unsophisticated in those pictures. Johnny stingy with his money on her promotion.
Does Elle magazine hate Amber? Because that is a terrible photo on the cover. I remember when Amber was a platinum blonde a few years ago and I thought she was so beautiful! I also have a very hard time believing she gets a stack of scripts every month.
I do think Amber is a very smart girl because she got Johnny to marry her and she’s basically made herself famous. She will dump him as soon as she has a big hit movie.
Amber will never dump him.
It’s “traverse,” not “transverse.”
Yup. She tries so hard.
I hope that was a typo. It’s a major mistake for someone trying to put out a certain image as strong as she does. Just odd.
Thanks for noticing. Classic mistake of trying to sound smarter than you are!
Transverse: situated or extending across something.
It’s fine in both ways
Transverse is an adjective; traverse is a noun. It’s pretty clear she meant “to traverse” as in “travel about” instead of transverse as in “the way that line on the map goes between Miami and Cuba.”
She doesn’t know the meaning of either.
Johnny likes his women close by. If she wants to be free to go and do, I don’t see this lasting.
And that’s why Vanessa didn’t traveled with him when he was shooting his movies? and they used to even live in different continents at moments even years before of breaking up?
Despite of Amber’s comments and her – alleged- independence and freedom, she seems much more present on Johnny’s life than what Vanessa was. If he’s shooting in New Mexico, she’s in New Mexico. If he’s in London she’s in London. He’s in Australia and she’s in Australia. And when she was working in NYC it was Johnny’s turn to move there.
Only proves she has nothing else to do.
She’s gorgeous but lacks that “it” quality. Ambitious for sure.
Yes! She is gorgeous, but very 2 dimensional. And that photo spread (where she spreads her legs) does nothing to deflect from her lack of charisma.
yes, its like she checks all the boxes of what you need to appear beautiful and she is but there is no real wow factor.
Not very bright, no charm or charisma.
There’s something really 1992 about this girl. She looks strangely dated.
This is one of the reasons I don’t like the too long lasting trend of putting celebrities on the cover of fashion magazines. I worry that if I purchase the issue I’m signalling that I’m a fan of the cover celebrity. Plus there’s always the accompanying vapid interview where the celebrity tries to convince readers that she’s more than a pretty face.
Let’s go back to professional models on the cover of fashion magazines soon!
When I was a teenager, I never got a magazine that had a celebrity on the cover because it meant the editorial was going to suck.
Now I don’t buy fashion magazines anymore, even today’s models suck.
She’s going to be in The Danish Girl — a transgender-themed movie — with Eddie Redmayne. It’ll be a big awards contender.
Depp can pull as many strings as he wants to get his wife covers, but none will ever manage to make her even vaguely interesting or unique.
Seriously, how else would she have merited a major cover? The only notable thing she’s done is marry the Scarf Monster of the Caribbean.
I don’t think she’s gorgeous. Nothing special about her imo. Yes, she falls in love every time he opens his wallet.
She looks a bit like a lot of other actresses-a bit K Stew-y, a bit ScarJo-y, etc.
She’s just very forgettable in appearance and screen presence.
i think she is gorgeous and there is nothing special about her. thats kind of my problem with her. not her fault. but she is way too cookie cutter. i want to see intruiging people and not a run of the mill blonde, there are enough of them already. Cate Blanchett is a tall blonde with a pretty face, but she certainly is special.
its like Amber is a well done paiting, its beautiful to look at but thats about it, its a streamlined beauty.
Yeah, that’s the thing about her. Annie Hathaway, for example, is not as pretty as Amber, but I’d choose Annie anytime for anything, even if there’s no acting involved.
She can’t help the way she looks, whether is plain jane beauty, exotic beauty, to die for beauty, boring beauty. She just can’t help the way she looks, unless she has plastic surgery which we sure would criticize her for.
That said, Women in Hollywood complain a lot about the lack of strong roles for women, they are right, but what is anyone doing about it? Are they hoping they’ll be loud enough for the male execs to take notice?
If I were in the position of these women, I would write my own scripts, or at least I would try. They are so resourceful, but everyone is just sitting pretty.
She’s pretty, which may seem unique in a crowd of regular people, but in Hollywood, blonde beauties come by the fistful. It’s more important to be striking instead of traditionally beautiful in that crowd, and lacking that, you have to have the personality or talent to back it up. If you consider some of the biggest female names in Hollywood (Blanchett, Roberts, Lawrence, Streep), not all of them are staggeringly beautiful, but they all have features that make them stand out. Blanchette has that detached elegance. Roberts had her smile. Lawrence is all personality. Streep is just superb talent. The ones who are extolled for their beauty in Hollywood tend to be a little more exotic looking, like Angelina Jolie.
(It’s one of the reasons why I think Elizabeth Banks isn’t a bigger deal. She’s a very beautiful woman, but her features are “generic” as far as Hollywood beauty standards go. Well, that, and her venue is comedy, and men apparently think women can’t do that.)
Grrrr. She is just so damn grating. Ugh.
She wasn’t awful in All The Boys…
And IF she was willing to work her way up instead of acting entitled to better roles she would get them. This is not the case.
hmm what exactly is Magic Mike about? Maybe about the exterior of the guys involved?
and seriously if you want to stay out of the spotlight you shouldnt take roles like that because there is a huge interest in a sequel of a succesful movie and you certainly shouldnt date a former A Lister like Depp, he is still an Alister in his name recognition.
The commenters here are amazing. You guys all have made such spot on comments I have literally nothing to add except reading this is the best part of my workday- thx all
Uh huh. Nothing says “independent” like marrying an older, rich dude with connections.
” I married an old, rich guy so I’d never have to worry about money and options again – now that’s indepence! Um, and true love and such.”
Amber, never speak unless there’s a script in front if your face. A script your rich, famous husband bought for you.
Edit: her take on “fame” is vomitous. Her tortured artist schtick , puke.
“I never want for my life to lose the ability to transverse the world, with freedom and ease.”
I think someone got a “word-a-day” calendar for Christmas…..
Bokchoi: ha ha ha! And she still didn’t use it right.
I imagine her husband’s private jet helps with the problem of “transversing” the world with “freedom and ease.”
“with my illegally transported dogs…”
Yawn!!!!
The poor man’s Scarlett Johansson. Blah!
Syrup was a horrible movie and the only thing I’ve ever really seen her in. The book on which it was based is one of my favorites and I can’t believe the adaptation was so horrible. And she’s horrible in it. I remember thinking oh this is that beautiful girl that Johnny Depp is engaged to and then she opened her mouth and I was like oh man, she definitely needs somebody’s coat tails to ride on. Too bad she picked Depp.
“Amber Heard: ‘I fall in love again and again’ with Johnny Depp’s Money”
There fixed that for you.
Suuure, Amber. Everytime he opens his wallet.
“I fall in love again and again…with Johnny’s bank account!”
So she’s against sexism in films, yet she agrees to pose like this for a magazine? What an idiot.
But she’s ‘an artist,’ y’all, so it must be ok. Silly us for not getting it!
Oh, bless her. No class at all. Not a bit.
if one is ‘afraid’ of fame one shouldn’t go into acting/modeling as a profession or marry an international movie star.
They complain (rightly) about the lack of roles for women — so put your money in, and back some writers, commission a script, partner with a writer, etc. I respect Elizabeth Banks for making Pitch Perfect happen, for example, and Nia Vardalos and Rita Wilson for making Big Fat Greek Wedding. Better stronger films for women can be made if actresses support it, apart from the very male system. If Anita Loos could break in with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in the 1920s…..together these many acting women of Hollywood and beyond could do something financially too I would think beyond real estate buys.
“I fall in love every time my status as Johnny Depp’s wife gets me movie roles and more money. If it wasn’t for that I would be doing soft porn movies.”
Poor Amber. It must be so hard for her being young, thin, blonde, beautiful and white. I wish Hollywood, and just life in general, would open more doors for her!
Everything she is saying makes so much sense, since she doesn’t court fame at all by talking about her personal life, doesn’t rely on her husband’s name recognition and status to buy her roles, and she doesn’t go on pap strolls with her internationally famous movie star husband.
I can also see how she really means it when she says she doesn’t like to trade on her looks or be objectified, since she chose to pose in a demure outfit and not lying or sitting spread-eagled towards the camera!
She sounds like she’s in denial.
I’m sorry but she built her career stripping off in nearly every film she’s been in, most of them turkeys, so no, I don’t want to hear this “I’m being typecast as Barbie” b.s. She’s a great artist all of a sudden why? She’s wooden and has yet to prove she can act, the only reason she is getting the large pile of crappy scripts now is because of Depp. It would have been a much smaller pile without him, lbh.
Gross. Thnk she’s in love with the young handsome Version of her husband. I would bet she had a major crush on him growing up but gross