27 jun 2015 ano - THE TIMES Amber Heard The Next Big Thing INTERVIEW

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How to join the A list without compromising your beliefs? Just ask Amber Heard, rising Hollywood star, bisexual icon and Mrs Johnny Depp

Amber Heard is engaging in a few mid-conversation yoga poses, stretching her upper body like a lazy cat on a sofa at the Bowery Hotel in New York. A little late for breakfast, she’s just rushed down from her room with wet hair. Devoid of make-up, she looks like a 16-year-old fresh from swimming class, rather than an in-demand Hollywood star.

“Yes, it’s true, nobody has ever heard of her, but she is bisexual and she likes guns and muscle cars,” was how Jeremy Clarkson, in typically un-PC manner, introduced her when she was a guest on Top Gear’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car slot in 2011. All the same, it showed that an American actress “nobody had heard of” was still interesting enough to appear on primetime British TV.

Within a year, she would fall in love with Johnny Depp – the pair first met on the set of The Rum Diary – in a stroke crossing off point one of Clarkson’s introduction.

The actress who everyone has now heard of is friendly but guarded, wary of being labelled thanks to her new status as Mrs Depp, having got married in February. Or perhaps not, if you believe various reports that her marriage is already foundering. “We’re divorced? Already?” she laughs huskily, rolling her eyes.

Her husband is not in New York with her; he’s in Australia filming the latest instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. And so Heard has left her base in Los Angeles to come here for a “girls’ weekend” to celebrate her 29th birthday with a “tight group, all non-industry people”. It includes a yoga teacher, an LGBT activist and a friend from her home town of Austin, Texas.

Before her relationship with Depp, Heard dated female artist and photographer Tasya van Ree from 2008 to 2011. So, although the likes of Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan and Drew Barrymore have all been openly bisexual, clearly Heard is not your average Hollywood actress.

Her wedding to Depp, meanwhile, has caused ripples in some sections of the gay community, in which Heard has been considered a bisexual role model. “The LGBT community in the US, like any minority that has to fight for its rights, has had to build up a strength and a resilience that sometimes doesn’t allow for flexibility,” she says. “I never thought I would get married. But I’ve always loved who I’ve loved.

She and Depp got together in 2012 after he split up with the French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, his girlfriend of 14 years and mother of his two children, Lily Rose, 16, and Jack, 13. The couple married four months ago, in ceremonies at Depp’s home in Los Angeles and on his private island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay in the Bahamas.

Yet Heard insists that there hasn’t been a dramatic intensification of interest in her since. “It’s been a steady rise in exposure, pressure and accountability over the years,” she says carefully. “It ebbs and flows.” Still, she tells me she switches rental cars every week in Los Angeles to elude photographers. “It’s life on the run. I always wanted to be a vagabond. I’m a gypsy now, living out of a suitcase, constantly on the road. I like the travel, but I don’t like to fight to have anonymity. I think liberty is the most priceless commodity and having mine threatened is distressing.” I wonder where they spend most of their time now: LA, the Caribbean or France with the children? “We live all over … less so in Paris.” Indeed, Depp is now selling – for a reported £16.5 million – the 37-acre estate near St Tropez that he and Paradis spent more than a decade restoring.

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