Aquaman 2 Director on Amber Heard Involvement in Final Cut

James Wan, the director of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, responded to Amber Heard's allegations that her part in the sequel was diminished by discussing it in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

Wan insisted that the relationship between Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry and Patrick Wilson's Alan Tudyk, who plays Alan's brother, will always be the primary focus of the sequel, rather than the one between Arthur and Mera:

"I always pitched this to everyone from the get-go. The first Aquaman was Arthur and Mera's journey. The second movie was always going to be Arthur and Orm."  "So, the first was a romance action-adventure movie, the second one is a bromance action-adventure movie. We'll leave it at that."