Amber Heard and the Artistic Problem with Contractual Nudity

It’s depressing to read the complaint that the Nicola Six production company filed against the actor Amber Heard, for breach of contract regarding her work on the film “London Fields,” an adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel, directed by Mathew Cullen. It’s the latest round in a series of disputes between the film’s producers and its cast and director that were made public last year. At that time, the Toronto Film Festival was preparing to show the version of the film that the company had delivered—a cut that was said to be drastically different from the one that Cullen had made and that the actors favored as well. Cullen sued the producers over their version of “London Fields,” Toronto cancelled the première of the film, and it remains unreleased.