The Rum Diary was the movie starring Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, in which they met and began their relationship.
Although Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are now awaiting the verdict that will determine whether the actor's lawsuit in which he accuses his ex-wife of defamation will be accepted, there was a movie that both starred in. In they met and thus began there, at that time, sentimental relationship.
Diary of a Seducer, the film in which Amber Heard met Johnny Depp
The Rum Diary (Diary of a Seducer, by its name in Spanish), was a 2011 comedy-drama film. It was directed and written by Brice Robinson, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson.
Aside from Johnny Depp and Amber Heard starring, the cast also included Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins, and Giovanni Ribisi.
The recordings of the film began in March 2009 in Puerto Rico and it was released on October 28, 2011. The budget to make it was 45 million dollars, but it only managed to raise 30 million.
As for the film's synopsis, Johnny Depp plays Paul Kemp, a writer who has been unable to sell a book. And he gets a job at a newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile, Amber Heard gives life to Chenault, a young woman whom she knows Paul, who was on a boat in the sea and is seen by him while she bathes N-.
Although the latter makes him immediately fall in love with her, the woman is engaged to Hal Sanderson, a real estate agent who offers Paul a job writing ads for his company.
The start of a media trial
It was thanks to this film that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met, officially starting their relationship in 2012. They married in 2015 and separated a year later.
Although they divorced in 2017, the actress requested a restraining order against the actor for physical and mental violence, although she later withdrew the accusation for a settlement of 7 million dollars.
The following year, Amber Heard wrote a column for The Washington Post in which she made accusations against Johnny Depp without mentioning her name. Then, in 2019, the actor would file a defamation lawsuit and, in this way, they found themselves embarking on a tense media trial.
