Amber Heard: After a 2-year absence, this trailer marks her big return to cinema

Following Johnny Depp’s return to cinema last May with Maven’s Jeanne du Barry, it’s his ex-wife Amber Heard’s turn to return to cinema following the pair’s high-profile trial that spawned a film, documentary series. , and the documentary Johnny Depp/Amber Heard Affair – Justice was tested on social networks.

Off screens since 2021, Amber Heard is back with the thriller In the Fire, which releases its trailer today.

Directed by Connor Allyn, the film is set in 1890. Hurd plays Grace Burnham, a doctor who travels to an isolated plantation in Columbia to help a troubled young man (Lorenzo McGovern Zane) accused of murdering his mother and father. Eduardo Noriega). But the priest claims that the child is possessed and blames him for all the troubles in the village. Then begins the struggle between population and family, between religion and science.

Filmed between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s two trials, the film has been making headlines since last June. in the fire It was presented at the opening of the 69th Taormina Festival in Sicily. It was the actor’s first public appearance at a film event since the legal battle began.

“This movie helped Amber Heard not think about the trial”

Director Connor Ellin announced on the microphone Deadline :”He started our film after the British trial, and when he finished our film, he went straight to Virginia for the second trial. Amber is great in the movie and I’m sure it was very difficult to do everything else.

Anytime you shoot on location, you’re away from the world, and we shot in some pretty remote locations in southern Italy and Guatemala. Amber’s personality is such that I think she focuses on her work. He was incredibly attentive to what we were doing, rehearsals and everything. He was fully involved in his character. I think it helped him take his mind off the upcoming trial, reducing the space available for anxiety.”

A release date for In the Fire has not yet been announced. Amber Heard will join the cast of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom on December 20.