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'The Fall Guy' is already facing criticism over a distasteful joke in the film. The David Leitch-directed action-comedy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt came under fire before its even opened in theaters over a joke about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Hannah Waddingham's character, Gail Meyer, at one point makes a reference to Depp and Heard's turbulent relationship.

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00:00The Fall Guy is already facing criticism over a distasteful joke in the film.

00:05The David Leach-directed action comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt

00:09came under fire before it's even opened in theaters over a joke about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

00:14Hannah Waddingham's character Gail Meyer at one point makes a reference to Depp and Heard's

00:19turbulent relationship. Waddingham, who plays an executive producer in the film,

00:23reportedly walks into a trailer while looking disheveled and tells director Jodie Moreno,

00:27played by Blunt. It's like Amber and Johnny were just in here.

00:30Some viewers have since taken to social media to criticize the line, with one user writing on X,

00:36The Fall Guy made a distasteful joke about the domestic abuse Amber suffered at the hands of

00:40Johnny. It's 2024. Why are we writing these kinds of lines into movies? Nasty work.

00:45Another social media user wrote that the film allegedly makes a cheap Amber-Johnny joke.

00:50Would love to ask the writer what he thinks is so funny about domestic violence.

00:53Depp and Heard got married in 2015, but their relationship ended just 15 months later.

00:59Their split became highly publicized in 2019, when Depp sued his ex-wife for defamation over a 2018

01:05Washington Post op-ed she wrote about domestic violence, though she didn't name Depp in the article.

01:11After a public court battle, a jury ruled in Depp's favor on all three claims that he was defamed

01:16and was awarded millions in damages. Heard also brought a countersuit against Depp,

01:20in which she won one of the three defamation claims and was awarded $2 million in damages.

01:26The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Universal Pictures for a comment on the film's reference.

01:30For more on this story, head to THR.com.

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