Nic is like one part Zen and one part crazy. RT: What was it like working with Nicolas Cage?
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I mean, just to get to play a character that has an opportunity to throw punches and spit blood and wear cowboy boots and still be the sensitive element of the films - I had to carry the heart of the movie and still throw some mean punches. But it's like, this is the kind of movie that, if you didn't get your hands dirty making it, you didn't do it right. Many a night I had to come home and dress some wounds. I think there's something to be said for going home, tired, bruised and a little broken - you know, scraped and all that. Yeah, well I didn't want my stunt double to have all the fun. RT: You look like you were physically involved in a lot of those fights. They definitely hit casting on this one, because I can't imagine a better role. Oh, and the icing on the cake was the '69 Charger. It was the fast cars, loud explosions, great music, big guns and saving the world with Nicolas Cage - in a pair of Daisy Dukes. RT: What got you interested in this - was it Nicolas, or the cars? We caught up with Heard for a chat ahead of the film's release, and asked her about her role alongside Johnny Depp in Bruce Robinson's adaptation of Hunter S. while somehow managing to be sweet in the process. The part calls for plenty of lurid cussin', dirty fist fights, and blowing people away with large weaponry. Heard plays tough Southern girl Piper, who, after catching out (and beating the crap out of) her no-good cheating boyfriend, finds herself on the run with Nicolas Cage's escapee from Hell.
It came as no surprise, then, to discover Amber Heard's enthusiasm for both the fast and scuzzy sensibility of the movie and her co-star's typically unusual performance, which includes - in a move inspired, says Cage, by poet laureate Walt Whitman - his character Milton drinking beer from the bloodied skull of a deceased foe.
For a Texan-born actress with a love for classic American muscle cars (she drives a '68 Mustang), starring opposite Nicolas Cage in a grindhouse-style thriller called Drive Angry would seem like the ideal role.