One piece in particular involvedAmber Heard.

Heard herselftestified in court in May 2022that her role in the sequel had been “pared down.”

“I always pitched this to everyone from the get-go,“Wan tells EW.

AQUAMAN, Amber Heard as Mera, 2018.

Amber Heard as Mera in ‘Aquaman’.Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection

“The firstAquamanwas Arthur and Mera’s journey.

The second movie was always going to be Arthur and Orm.

So, the first was a romance action-adventure movie, the second one is abromanceaction-adventure movie.

We’ll leave it at that.”

In 2018, Heard wrotean op-ed for theWashington Postin which she described herself as a survivor of domestic violence.

She, in turn, countersued him for damaging her own career.

She said Warner Bros. “didn’t want to include me.”

“They just removed a bunch out.”

The two partiessettled in December 2022.

Reporting by Clark Collis.

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