22 h 27 oct. 2011 ans - NOW MAGAZINE TORONTO: Amber Heard glam, queer Rum Diary star refuses to be just another pretty face

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Amber Heard just wasn’t made for these times.

“I have a certain quality to me,” says Heard on a crackly cellphone connection from Los Angeles. “I wear all vintage clothing. I drive a vintage car. I still listen to music on vinyl. I don’t know why, but in my personal life I tend to exist very much in the 60s. And life imitates art I’ve found myself living in the 60s professionally for about three years now. It’s kinda nice.”

Heard’s latest film, The Rum Diary, makes the most of her retro vibe by casting her as Chenault, a self-aware temptress for whom Johnny Depp’s booze-soaked journalist falls hard in 1960 Puerto Rico.

For the film – an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel – director Bruce Robinson dressed Heard in a meticulous period wardrobe, but it’s the decade itself that best suits her.

“It fits me,” she says. “It’s appropriate. And for The Rum Diary I did make certain choices to hearken back to these old 50s and 60s movie stars in order to do justice to my character, who’s the embodiment of the archetype. [She’s] the woman of that era in many ways.”