Amber Heard took the stand to present the court with her side of the story in ex-husband Johnny Depp’s libel suit on Wednesday. However, social media users were quick to notice the similarities between her opening lines and the plot of the classic movie The Talented Mr. Ripley.
The Aquaman star began her testimony with details from the initial days of her relationship with the Pirates of the Caribbean actor, which Twitter believes she stole from the psychological thriller.
Heard said during her testimony, “When I was around Johnny, I felt like the most beautiful person in the whole world. He made me feel seen. He made me feel like a million dollars.”
“And that kind of feeling… lavish gifts and lavish expressions of love and how he had never met a woman like me,” the 36-year-old actor added.
“It felt like a dream. It felt like absolute magic,” she went on as the actor talked about how they were spending days together as they kept their relationship low key.
She further added that while their relationship was going great, Depp would disappear uninformed for days, saying, “He would disappear. And there would just be no way to get a hold of him, no way to contact him.”
Critics were able to find some similarities from Heard’s monologue with some lines from the movie where Marge Sherwood (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) says, “The thing with Dickie… it’s like the sun shines on you, and it’s glorious. And then he forgets you and it’s very, very cold.”
“When you have his attention, you feel like you’re the only person in the world, that’s why everybody loves him so much,” the script read.
Some expressed Heard also borrowed lines from movies like Matilda and Gone Girl.
