As she continues to navigate her return to the public eye, Heard prefers not to have “stones thrown at me so much.” As she noted to Deadline, “So let’s get the elephant out of the room then, and just let me say that. I am an actress. I’m here to support a movie. And that’s not something I can be sued for.”
“I’m not telling you I have this amazing film career, but what I have is something that I’ve made, myself, and it has given me a lot to be able to contribute,” said Heard, who has been acting since she was 16-years-old. “The odds of that in this industry are really improbably but somehow, here I am. I think I’ve earned respect for that to be its own thing. That’s substantial enough. What I have been through, what I’ve lived through, doesn’t make my career at all. And it’s certainly not gonna stop my career.”
In fact, Heard returned to the red carpet on June 23 for the premiere of In the Fire at the Taormina Film Festival. “Thank you for such an incredibly warm reception at the Taormina Film festival for my latest movie In the Fire,” she wrote on Instagram June 30. “It was an unforgettable weekend.”
