'The Fall Guy' is already facing criticism over a distasteful joke in the film. The David Leitch-directed action-comedy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt came under fire before its even opened in theaters over a joke about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Hannah Waddingham's character, Gail Meyer, at one point makes a reference to Depp and Heard's turbulent relationship.
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00:00 The Fall Guy is already facing criticism over a distasteful joke in the film.
00:04 The David Leitch-directed action-comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt
00:09 came under fire before it's even opened in theaters over a joke about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
00:14 Hannah Waddingham's character, Gail Meyer, at one point makes a reference to Depp and
00:18 Heard's turbulent relationship. Waddingham, who plays an executive producer in the film,
00:23 reportedly walks into a trailer while looking disheveled and tells director Jodie Moreno,
00:27 played by Blunt, "It's like Amber and Johnny were just in here."
00:30 Some viewers have since taken to social media to criticize the line, with one user writing on X,
00:36 "The Fall Guy made a distasteful joke about the domestic abuse Amber suffered at the hands of
00:40 Johnny. It's 2024, why are we writing these kinds of lines into movies? Nasty work."
00:45 Another social media user wrote that the film allegedly makes a cheap "Amber-Johnny" joke.
00:50 Would love to ask the writer what he thinks is so funny about domestic violence.
00:53 Depp and Heard got married in 2015, but their relationship ended just 15 months later.
00:59 Their split became highly publicized in 2019, when Depp sued his ex-wife for defamation
01:04 over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote about domestic violence,
01:09 though she didn't name Depp in the article. After a public court battle, a jury ruled in
01:13 Depp's favor on all three claims that he was defamed and was awarded millions in damages.
01:18 Heard also brought a countersuit against Depp, in which she won one of the three defamation claims
01:23 and was awarded $2 million in damages. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out
01:27 to Universal Pictures for comment on the film's reference.
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