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Amber Heard reveals she was warned coming out as bisexual would end career
Danish Girl actress Amber Heard has said she was told revealing her bisexuality would end her film career.
Johnny Depp's ex-wife said film-makers doubted whether she could play a straight woman in a romantic lead role after she revealed her sexuality seven years ago.
Speaking at The Economist's Pride & Prejudice event in Fresh York, she said: "It did impact my career, it was difficult.
"It was not easy. I was the only one active in this way, so it was definitely complex because no one had done it.
"I did that even though everyone told me it would finish my career, without a doubt."
The year-old said she has never hidden her sexuality and did not make any big "coming out" announcement as has been reported.
"When I notice someone comment about me coming out, I assume it's funny because I was never in," she said.
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Heard said she was asked directly about her sexuality by a reporter at the time and she answered "honestly" and "off the cuff".
"Then I realised the gravity of wh
Bisexual actress Amber Heard has talked about coming out to her parents as part of a panel discussion at the SXSW movie & media conference in the USA.
Amber gave a high profile and powerful coming-out speech at the GLAAD quarter-century celebration in GLAAD is a USA queer campaigns group simiiar to Stonewall in the UK.
Her story is one many bi and indeed gay or transitioned people will relate to in the fear that can come with having that conversation.
At the panel &#;Making Change On And Off The Screen&#;, she said, &#;I’m from Austin, Texas. My dad is an out-of-central-casting Texan. Big barrel hat, handlebar moustache, loves his guns, great southern man. And I was raised in a religious home. Naturally, creature an outspoken, militant feminist, lesbian, atheist, vegetarian. I call to mind when I told them about my relationship, that I was in admire with this chick. I remember at the beginning of that it was just tears.&#;
&#;They didn’t know how to process it because we hadn’t built the infrastructure for acceptance and tolerance. For them, it was organism thrown into a binary system of pro
Amber Heard Recalls Coming Out to Her Parents and the Tearful Aftermath
For Amber Heard, getting her parents to understand her sexuality was no easy feat.
On Saturday, the actress, who has since spoken out about her sexuality, reflected on the time she told her parents about dating a chick during the Making Change On and Off the Screen panel at SXSW Conference and Festival.
"I am from Austin, Texas. My dad is out of central casting Texan. Good Southern man, and I was raised in a religious home," she described on the panel, according to People. "And being an outspoken lesbian, atheist, vegetarian, I remember when I told them about my bond, that I was in adore with this woman, and at the beginning of that it was just tears, tears."
Prior to her marriage to Johnny Depp, Heard dated Tasya van Ree for five years.
According to the actress, her parents "didn't know how to process it because, for them, it was being thrown into a binary system of processing it, negative or positive."
However,
Amber Heard Opens Up About Being Bisexual and Marriage to Johnny Depp
&#; -- Amber Heard is more than Johnny Depp's wife.
The "Magic Mike" actor, who tied the knot with the famed actor in February, has been acting since the mid's and has several movies out this year including "The Danish Girl" opposite Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne.
But before meeting Depp and eventually falling in love, the actress, 29, dated designer and photographer Tasya van Ree and came out as bisexual in during a GLAAD event. Since then, she's never tried to hide her correct self when speaking to the press.
"I don’t long to have to oppose my sexuality in instruct to be me," she told the Times of London. "But I don’t want to have to be defined by it. I’m fundamentally opposed to trying to edit myself to be palatable or popular. I don’t offer a f***. I contest, but I shouldn’t possess to.”
Heard added that "I never thought I would get married. But I’ve always loved who I’ve loved."
She also opened up about being an activist and being married to one of the m