The Aquaman actress attended the international premiere of her latest film, In the Fire, on June 23 at the Taormina Film Festival in Italy. It was her first red carpet appearance since she and her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s televised defamation trial ended over a year ago.
Heard, 37, wore a black caped maxi dress with matching platform sandals and wore her long blonde hair down in curls as she smiled for pics on the carpet—technically teal—alone and with co-stars such as Luca Calvani, Eduardo Noriega and Yari Gugliucci their director, Conor Allyn, as well as actor William “Billy” Baldwin, who attended the festival to promote the animated comedy Billie’s Magic World (which also features his brother Alec Baldwin).
Heard also seemed upbeat while snapping photographs with admirers and signing autographs.
The actress plays a doctor who travels to a secluded plantation in the 1890s to heal a youngster with inexplicable talents who the local priest believes is possessed by the Devil in In the Fire.
The picture has no release date and is Heard’s final acting project. It was shot in Italy in early 2022, months before she and Depp’s defamation trial began that April. She will also reprise her role as Mera in the upcoming Aquaman sequel, which will be released on December 20, 2021.
Heard remained mainly out of the public glare after the trial ended on June 1, 2022. However, the actress began to be photographed in Madrid in May this year. Speaking Spanish, she has often told local paparazzi that she enjoys living in Spain.
Heard also seemed upbeat while snapping photographs with admirers and signing autographs.
The trial resulted in success for Depp, who made his red carpet return this past May at the Cannes Film Festival to open the film, Jeanne du Barry.
Depp had filed a $50 million lawsuit against Heard. A jury found the actress responsible for defaming the actor in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she wrote, “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse.” While the actor was not identified, Heard had publicly accused him of domestic violence in a 2016 restraining order, which he rejected at the time.
After the jury’s ruling, Amber was forced to pay Depp more than $10 million in damages. Heard, who termed the decision a “setback” for women, scored a minor triumph after filing a $100 million countersuit against the actor. At the same time, the jury ordered Depp to pay her $2 million because his counsel accused her of staging a “hoax.”
Both actors contested their verdicts, but Amber agreed to pay her ex $1 million to resolve the matter last December. A source close to the Pirates of the Caribbean star told E! News earlier this month that Depp intends to donate the money to five charities.
SOURCE – (AP)
