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'Heard's loss of earnings since negative campaign could be as high as $50m'
Entertainment industry expert Katheryn Arnold, who is being questioned by Amber Heard's team, is telling the court about "
comparable actors" to Heard, who she says she can use to measure Heard's career and its trajectory.
She says she chose actors who had played superhero characters in their break out roles, were good looking, were a similar age, could do stunts and had good acting skills. She says she considered these five actors:
Jason Momoa
Gal Gadot
Ana de Armas
Zendaya
Chris Pine
Ms Arnold says all of them were on an "
upward trajectory" and "
it would be very reasonable to think [Heard's] career would have been on [a similar] upward trajectory, with a year of so".
She lists all of the above actors and says they have all worked with numerous big brands since their initial success. However, she says Heard hasn't even managed to keep working for her one big brand - cosmetic company L'Oréal (who have paused her appearance in their campaigns).
Discussing losses, Ms Arnold says she thinks Heard made around a $2m loss from Aquaman, due to not being to negotiate a higher free for the second film.
As to TV, she says "
there's an exponential range where she could have done", and uses Momoa again as an example of an actor who has achieved massive TV success since his break out role.
For loss of endorsement contracts, she says she thinks Heard's looking at losses of "
as much as $8m over time".
With production and film activities, Ms Arnold says she thinks "
over the course of five years it's reasonable to think [Heard] would have been in one film per year for a minimum of $4m per film [her negotiated fee should she appear in an Aquaman 3 film], and so she would have lost at least $20m in earnings."
Ms Arnold concludes that Heard's combined loss of earnings across film, TV and endorsement is between $45 and $50m since the negative statements from Depp and his attorney Adam Waldman were first made, following Heard's split from Depp.