Screen Talk: Johnny Depp joins Amber in Martin Amis tale
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Your support makes all the difference.First-time director Mathew Cullen's long-gestating noir thriller based on Martin Amis's 1989 novel London Fields has been given a boost by a cameo from Johnny Depp. The movie stars Depp's girlfriend Amber Heard (pictured) opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Jim Sturgess and is shooting in the capital. Depp is in town to shoot Rob Marshall's adaptation of Into the Woods and Mortdecai.
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