Johnny Depp was so jealous of ex-wife Amber Heard she feared an outburst if she had to do a nude scene in a movie, according to documents in Depp’s explosive London libel case against the Sun.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star told the judge in the case that he was “uncomfortable with the idea of her doing nudity,” the Guardian reported Saturday, and told her “she didn’t have to be naked in films.”
Heard’s lawyers said she went so far as to hide her schedule from him so he wouldn’t find out if a nude scene was planned.
He also didn’t want her wearing sexy outfits on the red carpet, they said.
But Depp, who has admitted to being jealous, claimed he was just looking out for her professional reputation and denied he was trying to control her image.
“Ms. Heard was uncomfortable being thought of as a sex object, and she was hoping to do better films with more meat to the part, if you will, and did not want to be objectified and did not want to have to do nude scenes any more,” Depp told the court last week.
“I would never tell her what to wear, but I would certainly make mention if I thought what she was wearing was completely against the grain of what she told me her wishes were, because I did not find it very helpful to what she was looking for in terms of being taken seriously as an actress.”
He added: “She was telling me how she did not want to be looked at as the pretty girl or did not want to have to get her breasts out or be nude in a film any more. And I said, ‘You do not have to.’ She wanted my advice, and I gave her my advice. Unfortunately, or fortunately, she continued to do the same type of films, and I thought to myself that she was above them.”
Depp told the court he did not interfere with his wife’s movie contracts but was mindful of what he said were her concerns that she wasn’t being taken seriously enough, something he also once described as “actress bulls**t.”
Asked whether he interfered with his wife’s film contracts, Depp replied: “She was upset that she was being objectified and she wanted to do deeper material, more profound, something where she could show her abilities as an actress.”
Depp is suing the Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an April 2018 article that described him as a “wife-beater.” He denies the charge and said Heard was the violent, manipulative one.