Actors playing Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in new movie on why they took the 'risky role' - Entertainment Weekly News

"It's a topic you want to treat with such respect, and the problem I think with the trial is that people see themselves in both.".

Ultimately, Hapka says he took the part out of a desire to bring neutrality and humanity to the real people he and Davis play.

For Davis, seeing the hatred directed toward Head on social media during the trial inspired her even more to take the part.

"If anything, to be honest, it was more the vitriol that made me want to play her," she says, "because it breaks my heart when we can't see that people are human beings.".

Those scenes can be difficult to watch, and Davis says she can understand why people who have experienced domestic abuse might object to the dramatization

"I think those people are very nervous about this film and very nervous that anything would make light of something as serious as domestic violence," she says

"I think those people have been very vocally upset on social media because their experience is something that deserves to be respected," she says

More than anything, both actors hope the film serves to humanize two real people whose trauma and humiliation were consumed as entertainment for millions of people around the world — a fact the movie attempts to satirize with scenes of fictionalized TikTok videos mocking the trial

For her part, Davis says, "I think for me, what I hoped would come out of this is that, whether people were on her side or his side, whether people agreed or disagreed with their actions, whether people felt one way or the other based on their own experiences, all I really hoped would come out of this was that people could see Amber as a human being who was probably doing the best she could, and I see myself in that, and I understand and I have compassion."