Actor James Franco catches warmth within the upcoming Johnny Depp-Amber Heard biopic, “Sizzling Take: The Depp/Heard Trial.”
The 43-year-old “Pineapple Categorical” frontman is the famous person object of ire between 2022’s most notorious exes within the forthcoming movie, premiering Friday on streaming service Tubi.
“One other one with James Franco?” asks an aggravated Depp, portrayed by “Days of Our Lives” actor Mark Hapka, studying a script over Heard’s shoulder in a trailer for the flick.
Heard, performed by actress Megan Davis, 33, responds, “Are you jealous of him, too?”
The manufacturing comes simply 4 months after the previously wed couple’s highly-publicized $50 million defamation go well with.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star accused Heard — whom he met on the set of “The Rum Diary” in 2011, married in February 2015 and divorced in 2017 — of defaming him as an abuser in a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Put up.
Heard countersued Depp for $100 million for defamation, citing feedback his attorneys made about her home violence allegations.
Throughout a staggering six weeks of testimony, Heard alleged that Depp kicked her within the again throughout a Might 2014 flight from Boston to Los Angeles, owing to his suspicions that she was “secretly having a factor” with Franco.
“He hated James Franco,” she defined whereas on the stand. “He was accusing me of getting a factor with him up to now, since I had filmed ‘Pineapple Categorical’ with him.”
The 2 additionally shared a kissing scene within the 2015 movie “The Adderall Diaries,” to Depp’s dismay.
Heard continued her testimony, sobbing, “[Depp] referred to as me a slut” for locking lips with Franco within the film.
She went on to assert that an enraged Depp threw gadgets at her and slapped her within the face throughout his airplane rant.
“It didn’t harm my face, I simply felt embarrassed that he would try this to me in entrance of others,” mentioned the “Aquaman” star, including that Depp proceeded to taunt her with epithets.
Heard then testified that her ex brutalized her together with his boot.
“I felt this boot in my again,” she mentioned. “I fell to the ground. And nobody mentioned something. Nobody did something. You could possibly have heard a pin drop.”
She continued, “I simply keep in mind feeling so embarrassed that he might kick me to the bottom in entrance of individuals. And extra embarrassing, I didn’t know what to do about it.”
James Franco — who was accused of sexually exploiting 5 ladies who attended his appearing college, Studio4, in 2018 — has but to publicly acknowledge being dragged into the the Depp vs. Heard trial.
On June 1, the jury awarded Depp $15 million — $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages — after discovering that Heard wrongfully broken his character in her article.
A “humiliated” Heard was granted $2 million in compensatory damages however no cash for punitive damages.
To this point, neither Depp nor Heard have commented on the upcoming movie about their chaotic courtroom trial.
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