12 St. 45 Min, 28 Nov 2018 Jahr - VANITY FAIR Italy Amber Heard Understood The System Oppresses Women

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[VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATE - syndicated interview]

After the difficult divorce from Johnny Depp, and the consequent 7 million dollars donated to charity, the actress says she understood how "the system oppresses women". For this reason, she has now decided to fight "against injustices, insecurities, hardships" that she has in common with all the "sisters" she meets


Amber Heard squeezes my hand tightly, her eyes full of tears. myself. We are in an old-fashioned hotel in The Hague, and the American actress remembers the hearing where Christine Blasey Ford accused Brett KaVanaugh of attempted rape before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. “Every single woman who heard that testimony was touched by it,” says the 32-year-old actress.
“Everyone I know was heartbroken.”

In May 2016, Heard accused her ex-husband Johnny Depp of domestic violence. She appeared in a Los Angeles court with bruises around her eye saying she had thrown her cell phone in her face. He had received a restraining order but several people, including Paul Bettany and Depp's ex-partner Vanessa Paradis, argued that he was not capable of such violence. However, a video showed him apparently drunk, violently closing some doors before throwing himself at Heard and realizing he had been filmed. The divorce was made final last year and Amber donated the $7 million settlement to charity.

Did Ford's testimony remind you of your experience? «The effects of trauma are subtle.
They don't manifest themselves as you might imagine: I didn't hide under a table if I heard a loud noise, as sometimes happens to those suffering from post-traumatic stress. Trauma creeps up on you in strange ways, when suddenly you find yourself on the ground, crying while watching the hearing on live TV, and wondering why it affects you so deeply. Not your process, right? Yet yes. It's yours too."
Recently interviewed by GQ, Depp denied the violence, specifying that in the last three years he had had the feeling of being "the victim of a perverse situation". Heard's lawyer instead responded that these claims were "completely false."

I ask Amber what she thinks. She answers after a long silence. «Some time ago I couldn't understand how deep and powerful the whole system that oppresses women and marginalized groups was. Even today I believe that the truth is the only possible choice. However, I didn't realize how much it hurts to get there, I fight every day, and every day I get better. And when a woman comes to me and says thank you, she reminds me that I am right, that the truth wins and lies are not sustainable."

Heard is in The Hague to speak at One Young World, an annual summit that brings together bright young people from around the world, giving them the tools to create lasting connections and bring about positive change. She is scheduled to give a speech on migrant rights at the U.S.-Mexico border:
“When someone's human rights are denied, all human rights are threatened,” she gets excited, speaking in a hoarse voice. Tiny, she crouches on the sofa and says that she has bandaids on her nipples because they lost her suitcase and so she has no bra. Not having a change of clothes, she wears a hand-knit sweater and skirt that would make any woman look frumpy. "I learned a ploy for jet lag", she replies when I ask her if she slept. «The trick is to never spend enough time in one place to get used to it. It's great for work and travel, and very useful in life."

Heard grew up in Texas, in a city where "you certainly don't have fun". Her father David worked construction and trained horses. He had been a good hunter, and as children Amber and her younger sister Whitney ate what he caught: game, quail, ducks, pheasants. At 17, however, she left home, dreaming of
she wants to become a model and actress. She had no contacts in Los Angeles and her family was skeptical, but she soon began to get small roles, then increasingly important and well-paid ones, until she managed to buy the classic car she had always dreamed of.

Her films range from light (Magic Mike
XXL) to busy (The Danish Girl, where she is a dancer). Now, she's in the cast of London
Fields, adaptation of the novel by
Martin Amis, just released in the United States: a difficult experience, also because the producers asked her for 10 million dollars claiming that she had not respected the contract. She reported them to her, accusing them of having used a body double in the sex scenes in which she had not agreed to act. On January 1st, we will see her in Aquaman, in the role of Mera, queen of Atlantis.

She met Johnny Depp in 2011 on the set of The Rum Diary - Chronicles of a passion, where she played the part of his lover, and was preferred to Scarlett Johans-son and Keira Knightley. The couple married in 2015 in Los Angeles, with a second ceremony on Depp's private island in the Bahamas. It all ended with accusations of domestic abuse.

Amber tells me that she spent many years "on the run", sacrificing her private life: "It's very difficult to maintain relationships when you're always on the move." Even now, as she sits, she gives the impression of flitting here and there, moving quickly to avoid any moment of silence. «I have an overactive mind, allergic to boredom. The antidote to anxiety for me is action: the more you keep busy, the less easily you succumb."

I ask her if she is happy. "Yes. Yes » she says, with a dreamy smile that doesn't fully convince me. In love? «I am in love with life, and with what really... gives me love back. That is, the people."
We order a croissant and an iced coffee. She nibbles brioche assuring me that «I can never stop in front of a buffet». Every now and then she stops to ask her friend Todd, here with us, if the suitcase has been found. She finally decides that she needs his belt, and he slips it off without batting an eyelid. We stare at her in amusement as he wraps her around her tiny waist and looks to see the effect on her.
I try to bring her back to our interview by asking her how much of a part of her female acquaintances occupy her in her life. «I get along well with women», she says, and explains to me that the patriarchy has forced women to compete, but that ultimately «we are made to unite people and build communities, to be sisters, mothers, friends». Hollywood, she claims, fuels female rivalry: «I feel it in many actresses and models but I don't blame them, I think they have never met a woman who looked them in the eyes and said "I'm on your side, I believe in you".

About her She talks about her mother, Paige, who recently "had to resign" from her job in the technology field "due to sexual harassment."
However, Amber is convinced that there has been "a change in what happens around us, not only in attitudes, but in the nature of conversations and the strength of our words". She feels part of a large global community of sisters. «I have the feeling that as soon as you get to know me you understand that I'm on your side, as a woman. I'm like you, I have to fight against the same injustice, insecurities, hardships, dealing with the same balance of strength and weakness."

She adds that she becomes "nervous" when entering a crowded room and experiences a wall of "preconceived ideas," and worries that her reputation prevents her from "having
give you the opportunity to really get to know
someone, to really make people understand who they are."

I sense that nervousness as I accompany her to the conference. By car you do it-
Quietly, she listens to the music she discovered during a visit to the Zaa-tari refugee camp in Jordan. When she finally speaks, she tells me about a little girl she met there and that she was terrified of having her cleft lip operated on. «Even though I don't come from a privileged family according to American standards, I have had incredible luck, I would like to use it to do something important», she explains.
Here we come. When she takes the stage, in front of an auditorium full of busy young people, Heard enthuses talking about the «importance of our shared humanity" and remembering her visit to the border between Mexico and the United States, when several women wearing "the signs of violence" approached her to tell her their terrible stories. The public's attention is high.

Then, during the day many of her ask for a photo of her, hope for a look from her or a kind word. When people recognize her, she explains to me, she makes two types of expression. One is the selfie face:
«Fantastic, I love when people appreciate what I do».
But it's the other one that she sees most often. She beats her heart with her fist, whispering "thank you, thank you", to be more explicit. «Women approach me and bring sisters and friends to thank me.
And I know what it means, I know it deep in my heart."

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