“Both of them will work again, but I think it will be a while before a major studio will consider them ‘safe’ enough to bet on.'
The jury in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial both won claims against each other, a jury decided. Depp was awarded $15 million in damages, Heard was awarded $2 million.in a long-running public dispute capped a lurid six-week trial that also raised questions about whether the two actors can overcome tarnished reputations.
"Both of them will work again, but I think it will be a while before a major studio will consider them ‘safe’ enough to bet on," said former entertainment lawyer Matthew Belloni, who writes about the business of Hollywood for the newsletter Puck. "The personal baggage that was revealed in this trial was just too icky for a studio to want to deal with.
"From a reputation-management perspective, there can be no winners," he said. "They’ve bloodied each other up. It becomes more difficult now for studios to hire either actor because you’re potentially alienating a large segment of your audience who may not like the fact that you have retained either Johnny or Amber for a specific project because feelings are so strong now.
The jury found in Depp’s favor on all three of his claims relating to specific statements in the piece., jurors considered three statements by a lawyer for Depp who called her allegations a hoax. They found she was defamed by one of them, in which the lawyer claimed that she and friends "spilled a little wine and roughed the place up, got their stories straight," and called police.
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