Amber Heard refused to ditch their clothes for a crucial scene
Amber Heard has gone n@ked on film before, but when it came time to go t-o-p-l-e-s-s for 2018's London Fields, she flat-out refused — and consequently was sued by producers for $10 million.
Based on Martin Amis' 1989 novel of the same name, the film stars Heard as Nicola Six, a clairvoyant femme fatale who predicts she will be murdered by one of her three lovers. Hey, the heart wants what the heart wants, right? Given both the script and the novel it was based on were "salacious, provocative and contained n@ked scenes," producers argued that Heard was well aware she'd be asked to go n@ked. She still refused, meaning that "key scenes in the script had to be removed and/or rewritten to accommodate Heard's behavior."
Producers also argued that Heard didn't just disrupt the production, but that she also damaged the film's publicity. They alleged that Heard was contractually obligated to attend the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (which she did not), and that she even tried to get the film pulled from TIFF's lineup (which it was).
The production company, Nicola Six Limited, sued Heard for $10 million, or about 40 times what it made at the domestic box office when it was finally released three years after it was pulled from Toronto. Its $250,000 take makes it one of the biggest bombs in history.
