I find this to be fascinating and a disaster at the same time. I'd wager most Hollywood marriages end in divorce. No shocker regarding Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. But this stuff is still going on. Proceedings came about in 2017 and it's escalated. The Sun, a paper out of the UK, put out an article in 2018 calling Depp a "wife beater". There has been leaked audio of Heard saying she beat him up and that no would believe him. Alleged stories of severed fingers. Both are pieces of garbage in my opinion. I truly believe they both hurt each other physically.
For this month, a libel case against The Sun resulted in a Depp loss and being forced to step down from Fantastic Beasts 3, Warner Brothers adaptation of JK Rowling's work. But Heard hasn't had any punishments and continues to have work with Aquaman 2 when that films next year and a couple other projects. That's why a petition on change.org that has been around for a couple years has blown up over the last month and reached over a million and half signatures. Pretty big altogether.
I do think a decent majority of signings are from Depp fans. But I also think a number of it has to do with regards to domestic violence and the double standards regarding women who abuse. The petition creator, which is a woman by the way in Jeanne Larson, talked about in the description of it the hypocrisy. Heard hides behind movements like MeToo and pretends to be a victim. She isn't. I think Depp hurt her, but I also think she isn't completely innocent either. For her to say the petition is a paid campaign is horseshit and that people have no basis in reality is ridiculous. This isn't a slap on the wrist thing. Not to mention there was a time when she abused another partner long before meeting Depp.
I can't claim that I've seen this in real life, but stuff like this hurts and upsets people who have gone through it. And it's cunts like Heard who make it harder for actual victims to bring up domestic violence without fear of being a liar. No one wins. Hollywood bats a blind eye. And women can skew things to make the media sympathize with them. Not all, mind you, but it's still dangerous.
Unless things escalate, there's nothing Warner Brothers can do with a firing of Heard because of contracts. But they are also being tone deaf on it by not taking the petition and the cases seriously. They compared the situation with Captain Marvel, which isn't even a good comparison. Brie Larson is a sexist bitch, but there are actors that have issues with the media. Very different from domestic violence. Hugely different. The studio also has ideas on making a Mera film, which is the Aquaman character Heard plays. If people didn't want to see Birds of Prey, why would anyone want a stand alone film of this? This isn't like Marvel.
Aquaman 2 has the potential to underperform when it comes out Christmas 2022. This long fight between Depp and Heard isn't over yet. Far from it. Pending what happens for December, that petition could make Warner Brothers think a little more seriously. Either way, both should not be in the Hollywood spotlight for the next couple of years.
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