jul 8, 2013 - BULLETT Amber Heard refuses to talk about Johnny Depp Photoshoot INTERVIEW

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That's not to say Heard doesn't pack heat-in fact, the 27-year-old Austin, Texas, native owns a .357 Magnum. "I was raised around guns,'
' she says. "It's not taboo where I come from." As fate would have it, Machete Kills-as well as her earlier movies Friday Night Lights and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane -was filmed in her hometown. While still in her teens, Heard rejected the Catholic religion into which she was born, dropped out of high school, and "escaped" Austin to pursue acting in New York and then Hollywood. But don't call her a "wild child."

"Wild' has a negative connotation to me. It recalls a Lohan-type approach to life," she says, breaking off a piece of her cookie. "My embarking on a journey to question a religious system, to demand or beg for answers, is, in and of itself, wild, but for me, it seems morally and intellectually imperative. I've always acted
in what I thought was the best way possible.

Heard can't seem to curb her candor- she publicly declared her bisexuality at a GLAAD event in 2010 - a trait that's landed her in trouble with her agents, whom she calls "the
adults in my life." That frankness, along with her refusal to discuss her blossoming relationship with actor-superstar Johnny Depp, probably explains why she's taken a media hiatus over the past couple of years. When I bring up Depp's private Caribbean island, where he supposedly replicated the bar featured in The Rum Diary (the two met tour
years ago on the set of the Hunter S. Thompson- based film), she signals for me to cut it out with a pantomimed thumb-knife to the neck. "The island " she says, pausing, before landing on a judicious way to phrase her thought, "is my private life."

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