Amber Heard: 'It's Not Creatively Fulfilling To Just Be Sexy'

Amber Heard: 'It's Not Creatively Fulfilling To Just Be Sexy'
Amber Heard arrives for the Di Grisogono Party at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)
Amber Heard arrives for the Di Grisogono Party at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Women in Hollywood are often expected to play sexy roles, and Amber Heard is over it.

As a woman, I usually have two options: Sex Object or the Best Friend Who Isn’t Sexy. It’s not creatively fulfilling to just be sexy. I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there’s always someone more beautiful!

In fact, Heard has a history of ensuring her right not to look beautiful. She told W interviewer Lynn Hirschberg that she asked the director of the 2009 film "Zombieland" if she could play a "true zombie" rather than a "cleavage zombie."

Hollywood has a well-known women problem, so we're glad that actresses like Heard want women on-screen to be more than just eye candy. After all, films with substantial female characters do better than those without -- and are precisely the kinds of movies we'd pay to see.

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