Elon Musk reportedly threatened to ‘burn down’ WB if ex Amber Heard was fired from ‘Aquaman’

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Variety, the 37-year-old actress was allegedly almost fired from the franchise and asked not to return to the watery sequel “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” until the Tesla CEO strong-armed Warner Bros.

into rethinking their decision.The drama can be traced back to the messy, high-profile Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, during which documents surfaced from Heard’s therapist, Dr.

Dawn Hughes, which had been subpoenaed by Depp’s attorneys during discovery in the case.The intimate notes scribbled on a legal pad described a contentious “Aquaman” set “where an allegedly intoxicated Jason Momoa dressed like Depp and pushed to have Heard booted from the role of aquatic superhero Mera,” according to Variety.During the trial, Heard alleged that she was in constant danger of being eradicated from the film.“I fought to keep my job and the biggest movie opportunity I had to date [with] ‘Justice League’ with the option to [star in] ‘Aquaman.’ I had to fight really hard to stay in ‘Justice League’ because that was the time of the divorce,” Heard testified while on the stand. “I was given a script [for ‘Aquaman 2’] and then given new versions of the script that had taken away scenes that had action in it, that depicted my character and another character, without giving any spoilers away, two characters fighting with one another, and they basically took a bunch out of my role.”While Momoa’s camp declined to comment, a DC spokesperson refuted Heard’s claims to Variety, saying, “Jason Momoa conducted himself in a professional manner at all times on the set of ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.’”Others echoed that sentiment, according to Variety’s reporting.