Amber Heardis back on the big screen.
Heard said in a statement (provided prior to the ongoing actors' strike), “The film is a meditation on the almost supernatural powers of love told through a strong-willed and independent woman at the turn of the 20th century.”
Amber Heard in “In the Fire”.Saban Films
Saban Films
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Heardattended the 69th Taormina Film Festivalin Italy on June 24 to support the film’s world premiere.
She told PEOPLE at the festival, that the new film is “a beautiful movie about the almost supernatural effect and force of love."
“It is about the boundaries that love can cross and its creation, and really about the overwhelming power that love has,” Heard said at the time. “I don’t want to sound cheesy about it, but it’s a movie about love.”
Heard also appears in the upcoming sequelAquaman and the Lost Kingdom,which opens in December anddebuted its first trailer last week.
Though it was filmed beforehand,In the Fireis the actress’s first movie to debut since her controversial defamation trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp. The jury sided mostly in Depp’s favor last year. Months later, they reached a settlement and she paid him $1 million.
In the Firedirector Allyn told PEOPLE at the Taormina Film Festival thatHeard “has an incredibly bright future ahead.”
“I thinkIn the Fireshowcases her talents as an actor. I know this is something she is very proud of and it’s something we are very excited to release to the public,” he said. “I think it will be a great opportunity for her to have something beyond the trial and stuff to talk about and to be a platform for a hell of a comeback.”
In the Fireis in theaters and on digital Oct. 13.
source: people.com
