2h 43min, sep 14, 2011 y - BLACK BOOK Amber Heard Age of Dissent: The Rum Diary Star Bares All

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Amber Heard meets me on a sunny morning at Gemma, the copper-toned Italian brasserie next to Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel where she’s currently staying as she shoots Syrup, an indie drama set in the dog-eat-dog world of corporate advertising. The 25-year-old actor is tall and slender, her blonde hair slicked back and still wet from the shower, and, if she’s to be believed, there’s not a pinch of makeup on her face. “Can you tell that I just woke up?” she asks. Aside from the two soy lattes she guzzles in under an hour, I cannot. Heard is dressed in head-to-toe vintage—a black lace top exposing her sun-kissed shoulders, an eggshell-white, high-waisted skirt, and gold slip-ons—a style that not only suits her pinup physique, but also that of Maureen, the Bunny she plays on NBC’s new ’60s-era drama The Playboy Club.

Heard talks about her Rum Diary experience like she still can't wrap her head around it. She punctuates the story of her first audition for Depp with bursts of incredulous laughter. Was she intimidated meeting one of the world's
great silver-screen icons? "I guess I must have been," she says. "I just don't know if I thought about it that way. Luckily, we're built so we don't really remember that kind of pain." Laughter. "I can just assume it was there."
More laughter. Regarding a steamy shower scene with Depp, Heard plays it cool, sort of. "I grew up watching his movies, so it was a little surreal, but I very much become my characters while I'm working. I'm not Amber Heard
making out with Johnny Depp in the shower. I mean, that's awesome, but I am Chenault, and he's Paul Kemp, and we're embroiled in a love story in Puerto Rico, and it's easy to get lost in that. Love scenes are weird, but if they're right for your character, I let go of the weirdness and jump into them.

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