sep 17, 2009 - TORONTO STAR
TIFF Interview
Amber Heard
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Have you heard about Amber Heard? With one of TIFF's most buzzed-about films, and another
on the way, you will.
Amber Heard went about landing the lead role in the movie based on Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, opposite Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart, the old-fashioned way. She applied in writing for it.
It seems a fitting way to go about it, considering that, like Depp, the 23-year-old Texas-born actress is a true-blue gonzo groupie.
"I'm a huge fan of Hunter S. Thompson," the fast-rising star explained as she sat in a shady corner of a Yorkville hotel patio this week. "He was one of a kind and he has affected me throughout my whole life, since I could read.
"As soon as I heard about the movie, I wrote letters to the director (Bruce Robinson) and producers involved."
In the notes, Heard explained that she, a lifelong passionate fan of the renegade reporter, was born to play Chenault in the
story Thompson penned while in his 20s and based on his booze-soaked time as a reporter in Puerto Rico. And in doing so, she beat out one of Hollywood's top leading ladies for the part, Scarlett Johannsen.
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