oct 28, 2011 - CINEMA BLEND
Amber Heard Discusses
Mystifying Johnny Depp
In The Rum Diary
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CB: Bruce Robinson was talking about how he brought you in four times to audition for the part. And I'm curious, could you talk about that experience from the other side?
AH: Well, luckily I don't think our bodies are designed to remember what their pain felt like [laughs]. And that's a good thing because it was grueling. It was grueling. But I'd probably never go on another audition if I could remember how much that hurt. Just every time, y'know, the nerves... It's nerve-wracking. It was incredibly stressful but I'm so, so happy I did it.
CB: Just to talk about the character a bit- one thing that I find curious about Chenault is that when she first meets Paul Kemp in the water there's almost an instant attraction, a seduction between the characters. Do you think that was special for him? Or do you think that's kind of her nature, that's something that she kind of invites?
AH: That's a good question. I think that it has to be an instant love, because it's... look at him, it's Johnny Depp, I mean it's also Paul Kemp, but I think that's an obvious thing, and I think there's an instant attraction. We're not talking about two people that would not be attracted to each other. They're very, from the beginning, drawn to one another. I think later she learns what he represents and her fall from grace is a dramatic one, but one that ultimately has to happen. So the ties are severed and the cord is cut and she falls away from this lifestyle that she was so much a part of at one point. And truly, whether you call it that she was a victim to it or owned doesn't matter. She was like, any other part of that dream, of that facade of what the American dream is... the corvette, the bedazzled turtle... and that's her. Just another one of those commodities. And she falls for the opposite of that. She falls for the antithesis of Sanderson. It's Johnny Depp. And we kind of take that journey with her.
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