‘Depp v. Heard’ Netflix Director Did Not Want to Interview Johnny Depp & Amber Heard: ‘I Wanted to Get Away From Any He-Said-She-Said Within the Trial’
16.08.2023 - 08:51
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Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Filmmaker Emma Cooper had to turn her notifications off. The director of Netflix’s “Depp v. Heard” knew that by diving back into the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, her latest project would attract a lot of commentary online.
After all, the six-week defamation case between one of the most famous celebrities on the planet and his rising star ex-wife was televised live with viewers around the world consuming explosive testimony, including from both actors who accused each other of domestic violence. In the end, the jury voted in Depp’s favor with Heard ordered to pay him $10 million in damages, and ultimately settling their long-running legal battle for $1 million. Given the high-profile and polarizing nature of her doc’s subject matter, Cooper was not entirely surprised that Team Johnny and Team Amber commenters took issue with the mere existence of the docuseries.
“You know, it’s a balanced level of hate,” Cooper says with a laugh. “I pride myself that it tends to be very 50/50,” she says, referring to fans and detractors of both Depp and Heard. But that’s, pretty much, the point.
In creating a three-part series about the globally-dissected court case, Cooper is not dropping any new revelations about the trial or its two subjects. Instead, she’s aiming to make a statement about our role in the sensational, sometimes disturbing conversation around the trial. The quick-to-judge comments the director has been receiving — before her docuseries even began streaming on Aug.
16 — are essentially a microcosm of the bigger, societal picture she’s exploring through the lens of the Depp v. Heard trial. The docuseries came from Cooper’s own interest in the trial, as a spectator of
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