Walter Hamada, the head of the DC films segment of Warner Bros., testified in Johnny Depp‘s trial against Amber Heard and a huge revelation was made.
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weighed in two weeks after the tongue-wagging testimony.Heard later testified about a meeting Johnny requested much later, after the two had been separated for a month, and just days after his mother died. She said he was intoxicated but “peaceful,” and their conversation was going well – until he brought up the poop incident, ranting incoherently about scientists and DNA tests, she said.He thought one of Heard’s friends might be responsible; she promptly phoned that person and put them on speakerphone – at which point she said he began “screaming” obscenities and insults at them.“I thought it was just a delusion he was having,” she said.
“I’ll hopefully quell this by calling my friend to prove this didn’t happen, we could move on and keep talking about our issues. Our marriage was over, we’d been apart for a month and his mom had just passed.
And he’s talking about … feces.”Heard said Depp lost it when the friend told Amber: “You’re not safe. Get out of the house,” which Depp overheard.She said at that point he grabbed the phone and was “really screaming this time … every imaginable horrible name you can say to any LGBTQIA person,” before throwing the phone and hitting her in the face.Earlier in the day, Heard’s legal team showed video of Depp in a rage that the actress secretly recorded, showing Depp smashing cabinets, throwing a glass or bottle and drinking red wine in the morning.This story is developing …Josh Dickey contributed to this report.
.Walter Hamada, the head of the DC films segment of Warner Bros., testified in Johnny Depp‘s trial against Amber Heard and a huge revelation was made.
Johnny Depp’s legal team started their rebuttal testimony on Tuesday with the video deposition of Walter Hamada, the Warner Bros. executive who said that their concerns over casting Amber Heard in the Aquaman sequel had to do with her chemistry with Jason Momoa.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe president of DC Films testified Tuesday that the studio considered replacing Amber Heard for “Aquaman 2” out of concern that she lacked chemistry with star Jason Momoa.Heard was ultimately cast in the sequel, but her lawyers have argued that she nearly lost the job and could not renegotiate for more money due to the backlash over her domestic abuse allegations against Johnny Depp. Heard is seeking $100 million in a defamation counterclaim against Depp.Walter Hamada, the head of Warner Bros.’ DC unit, was the first witness called by Depp’s side as they begin their rebuttal of Heard’s counterclaim in court in Fairfax, Va.
Jason Momoa wanted Amber Heard to reprise her role as Mera in “Aquaman 2”, according to new testimony in the defamation trial brought against Heard by her ex-husband Johnny Depp.
The sixth week of Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial began with an expert witness, an orthopedic surgeon who cast doubt on the actor’s claim of how he severed his finger in March, 2015, forcing a delay on the set of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
Last month Depp testified that Heard’s domestic abuse allegations against him were “heinous” and “not based in any species of truth.”Depp was third on the list of potential witnesses for Monday’s proceedings. Last week saw a flurry of the former couple’s acquaintances testify, mostly via videotaped deposition that went by relatively quickly, so Depp’s appearance Monday seemed a good bet.Heard previously told the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom that she suffered cuts on her arm and feet from broken glass, and a bruised jaw from getting “clocked” by Depp after a violent fight in Australia.
petitioned Warner Bros. for months to remove Heard from the superhero film seuqel amid her controversial defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp.Heard’s WME agent, Jessica Kovacevic, testified Thursday during the trial that Warner Bros. claimed it was Heard’s “lack of chemistry” with her “Aquaman” costar Jason Momoa that almost got her canned.Kovacevic also discussed the 36-year-old’s career before and after her relationship with Depp, 58, saying Heard should have become a major star after “Aquaman,” which premiered in late 2018 and grossed over $1 billion.The agent addressed “online rumors” that Warner Bros.
Amber Heard is currently entrenched in a defamation lawsuit brought against her by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, but the actress is also still trudging muddy waters in Australia. The country's local authorities recently confirmed they're still investigating whether she allegedly committed perjury for illegally bringing her dogs into the country without declaring them for quarantine, and a legal expert is weighing in on what could've changed for Heard in the incident. The serious offense alleges the "Aquaman" star, 36, lied under oath "during court proceedings for the 2015 illegal importation of (her) two dogs into Australia," a spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) told Fox News Digital on Thursday. The department stipulates that foreign pets must be quarantined for 10 days when first brought into the country, and they reckon Heard knew of the stringent policy but allegedly disregarded it anyway by smuggling them into the land down under. ""The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (department) is investigating allegations of perjury by Ms Heard during court proceedings for the 2015 illegal importation of (her) two dogs into Australia," the spokesperson said, which was first reported by Newsweek.
David Krumholtz is speaking out in support of Amber Heard in the ongoing Johnny Depp trial.
One of Amber Heard’s former co-stars is standing with her.
The ongoing trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard took on a new dimension on Wednesday, when Amber’s pal Raquel ‘Rocky’ Pennington testified about an infamous alleged blowout between the couple back in 2016.
Amber Heard denied Johnny Depp got her the role in while adding that it was her successful audition that landed her the part.Heard took the witness stand on Tuesday, and during a tense cross-examination by Depp's defense attorney, Camille Vasquez, the actress seemed perplexed after Vasquez asked Heard point-blank, «Mr. Depp got you that role in didn't he?»The 36-year-old actress responded saying, «Excuse me?» prompting Vasquez to repeat the question.«No, Ms. Vasquez.
Aquaman sequel has been reduced amid her court battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp.Speaking in court on Monday (May 16), Heard stated “they didn’t want to include me in the film” and she only shot a “very pared down version” of her part as Mera after she “fought really hard to stay in the movie”.“I was given a script and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it,” Heard said (via Yahoo Entertainment). “That depicted my character and another character, without giving any spoilers away, two characters fighting with one another.
Amber Heard faced another morning of contentious testimony on Tuesday, as one of Johnny Depp’s attorneys tried to raise doubts in the jury’s mind of her claims that her ex-husband assaulted her.
Johnny Depp questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard's claim that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.Heard was cross-examined Tuesday after her testimony in Depp's libel suit against her.Depp is suing Heard in Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name. The trial is now in its fifth week.Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, questioned Heard about a variety of incidents in which she says she was assaulted by Depp.Questioning was particularly intense over a March 2015 fight the couple had in Australia, shortly after they were married, while Depp was shooting a fifth film in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.It was during that fight that Heard says she was sexually assaulted.
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