nov 14, 2011 - WOMEN’S HEALTH The Amber Wave INTERVIEW PHOTO SHOOT

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Front Cover, December 2011 issue, published 14 November 2011

This interview seems to have been recorded some months earlier and was perhaps originally designed as a promotion tie-in for The Playboy Club. The Rum Diary and Johnny Depp are mentioned but they are not the focus of this interview.

- Not only is Amber the face of the new Guess ads, but she is starring opposite Johnny Depp in the movie The Rum Diary and was one of the leads on the short-lived TV drama The Playboy Club. The show may have been better suited to cable, where it could have embraced its sexy core, but Amber made the most of her role, turning her character into a convincing alter ego—equal parts beauty and conflict. It also gave her a national platform, in a bunny suit no less.

During filming, Amber kept going. Sexual politics and feminism are topics that might have set hair on fire in Texas—especially with enough hair spray—and she wanted to talk about them. "I wouldn't describe her as someone on a mission to be argumentative," says Hodge. "She's interested in interesting things. And interesting things are often more controversial."

Despite her outspokenness—or perhaps because of it—she also won over Rum Diary director Bruce Robinson and, it would seem, her costar Johnny Depp. When some of the cast went out to blow off steam after a day of shooting, she would disappear. And at the end of filming, says Robinson, "I remember Johnny and I saying, 'Jesus, where's Amber?' "

What young actress passes up drinks with a film god like Johnny Depp? One who prefers to make an impression on the job, not off it. But also, one who was in a serious relationship at the time. With a woman.

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