Amber Heard about her high school and storytelling mission

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Amber Heard about her school years, and her love for drama and stories.

"I mean it's a shame people don't read more but if you're gonna get a message across or you want to tell a story even if it's just to entertain, the outlet to do it is entertainment." - Amber Heard

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"In high school, I was part of the the clique that didn't go to school. I didn't really spend a lot of time in school, or I mean in the normal sense. I broke away, I was very independent and I broke away from high school to move out at a young age. And then focused on getting my diploma and finishing my classes on my own. And I did it through home studies and correspondence courses so I was very independent. And I think that there's a real sense in highschool of the opposite. Of not being independent not being an individual. I think so much of high school is based on fitting in and the necessity to do that, and the anxiety of doing that right? And I think it affects people for the rest of their lives and all in a horrible way. I think it's horrible.

And I think my escape from that was a lucky one because I didn't feel like I related to anyone in high school so much. I mean I was,, had friends when I was in high school and I did really great grades and,, a good student but then I just stepped out of it and said I'll do this on my own.

 I don't need to hit up prom and it was really funny because I would call my

friends back home that I went to highschool with after it moved out, at 16, 17 years old. And I say so how is it and they would be talking to me with such excitement about prom or the gossip with what cheerleader was dating who. And so I remember thinking to myself as I'm like you know paying bills listening to this thinking "I don't know I don't know anything about this world", and I don't feel like I miss out that's for sure.

So I think it's a process that I lucked out on missing.

When I was in high school and in middle school I pursued drama and my drama teacher Mr. Klaus he was he was amazing and it was the only class I'd like to go to. And that meant a lot. I mean excellent grades in high school but I hated to show up. And so I would always make it to my drama class. I was never late. I was less than out in fact, you know. 

And I love drama so much in high school and I finally got presented with an opportunity in my .. I was young to move out to LA I met my agent and connected with her immediately and I got an opportunity and took it, ran really fast. I actually told my parents the date before I moved out and I said actually I'm gonna go to LA and I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow. And that stems from a really deep rooted love of this job, you know, ever since...when I was a kid I had a video camera and I used to make movies and I loved it. It's it's a sense of immortality you get, you know. Speaking in a vanity sense it's sense of like of a message. And I remember when I was a teenager going to this independent art cinema in Austin and sitting there watching sometimes three movies at a time and... or you know back-to-back. And I remember my mother sitting me down once and asking me very seriously like "why is it you like moving so much?".

Like it's like, very concerned, like maybe she thought I was gonna shoot the school, I don't know. Like she was very concerned with my isolation and the art cinema but in any case it changed my life. I fell in love with good films and mostly they were independent.

//Hon såg Whale Rider när hon var 16 eller 17 år, och en av hennes första roller får hon i en film som regiseras av Niki Caro "She cast me in my first major project." Amber pratar om filmen North Country: Directed by Niki Caro. With Charlize Theron,  //

And I saw,, I remember seeing Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro and thinking that film is the media right. Noone, spends a lot of time reading books anymore. I mean it's a shame people don't read more but if you're gonna get a message across or you want to tell a story even if it's just to entertain, the outlet to do it is entertainment. Whether it's music or film, I mean that's today, you know. And I understand this and I want to tell stories and I and when I get a message across. I want to change people. And I said, ``This is the way to do it.”" - Amber Heard 

Reference:

amber heard online [YouTube], (aug. 2017). ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (2006) BLU-RAY EXTRAS — Amber Heard Interview. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5nyiNRh5f4