22 Nov 2015 Jahr - ELLE MAGAZINE South Africa Amber Heard The Wild One Pictorial INTERVIEW

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Front Cover, interview and pictorial.

December 2015 edition.

Like most women in Hollywood, Heard is depressed by the dearth of layered female roles out there. 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,' she says. '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,' she says, '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.'
The waiter comes by to refill her coffee, and Heard gets momentarily embarrassed about her 'pseudo-feminist rant.' But the point is made.

Growing up in a suburb of Austin, Texas, Heard had what her mother called an adventurer spirit. "They thought they were raising, you know, this, like, sweet Texan Christian girl, who was going to stay with the family just as everyone else does in Texas, but I always wanted to go and do, and I wanted to get out of Texas,' she says. Like all teenagers, Heard didn't feel like she fit in. 'I was poor and skinny and weird,' she says.

Even then, it sounds like her looks sometimes eclipsed the rest of her: Some kids called her "Amber seen and not Heard," a classmate told Britain's Daily Mail. But she used the pretty to get a modelling agent, which she saw as an exit strategy. Shuttling back and forth on the bus to Austin for small-time gigs like catalogues and dentistry commercials, Heard would pass an art-house movie theatre that, one day, she decided to check out.

Hours later, she emerged to a blinking set of text messages from her parents. The theatre staff'weren't really that diligent about manning this cinema in the matinee hour,' she says. 'So I would just sneak in. Two dollars to see several movies!'

New Zealand director Niki Caro's film Whale Rider, about a preteen Maori girl fighting sexism in her tribe, changed her life. 'It was so foreign and alien to me in Texas,' she says. At the same time, I deeply emotionally related what this character confronted with the aggravations and irritations and social-sexual aspects of her tribe, who was similar to me as a young person. I left the theatre like, you know, just a bit tingly?

Just before her 17th birthday, Heard's best friend died in a car accident. The experience affected her deeply. Talking about it now, she chokes up. 'As a kid, you think you live forever, you think you're invincible, and that is immediately confronted when you lose someone close to you, she says. Not long after, Heard declared to her Christian parents that she was an atheist, and that she wasn't going to waste any more of her time
in Texas.

Within a year, she had dropped out of school and moved to New York to model full time. 'It did cement in me a growing sensation and awareness that I was going to explore,' she says. 'I was going to do something other than what everyone else told me I should do. I think it was a reminder that today is what you have. Really.' As it turned out though, Heard hated modelling. Being a mannequin was not for her. She just wanted to go and do. She stuck with it for a while in order to travel - to Miami, to Europe - but soon she was back in Austin, where her commercial agent told her about an audition for a movie, Friday Night Lights, which she booked. Looking back, the part doesn't seem like a terribly auspicious start: 17-year-old Heard mostly rolls around topless in white, fringed cowboy boots. But the part got her a Hollywood agent, who, a year later when Heard moved to Los Angeles, helped her get a tiny part as a young Charlize Theron in North Country, a movie about a landmark sexual-harassment case that happened to be directed by Whale Rider's Niki Caro. It was an ironic, serendipitous gift, Heard says.

Ironic, perhaps, because she wouldn't see another script like that for a long time. Broke and carless in the biggest driving city on the planet, Heard spent her days riding around

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