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>Mera is not a damsel in distress. Aquaman isn’t going to rescue her. In fact, she rescues him, which is one of the things Heard loved about the character. She went on to say, “I was doing my research and was reading the graphic novels, and in one of the first ones I read, there’s a scene, some natural disaster in open water, a tsunami hits on the land, and of course Aquaman comes in and saves the day and civilians are like, ‘Oh my god, it’s Aquaman!’ And they turn to Mera, who has done equal work in saving this village, and they’re like, ‘Who are you? Are you Aquawoman?’ And she’s like, ‘No, I’m not Aquawoman. I’m Mera, I have my own name.’ And I was like, I like this. I like this woman. I respect it as a character, I respect it as a person. I also respect it as the average modern woman, who is sick and tired of seeing the same old, two-dimensional, reactionary, passive roles that are limited to being rescued or enchanting the male protagonist. I feel I have a lot more to offer in life and I’m bored with those characters when I watch them.”
>Even though a lot of the movie takes place underwater, Heard said this might be the driest she’s ever been in a movie. That’s because all the underwater stuff they have wig caps on and they have to actually make diffused mattifier on her skin. It has to do with the VFX. But when they’re in air bubbles underwater, they have to soak her down. She said, “Part of my routine at work is I show up and get hosed down. This happens throughout a day of filming the same scene because it takes so long to shoot these enormously complex scenes. There are many days when I spend my entire day, every 15 minutes, getting hosed down! And it’s still the driest I’ve been in a movie.”
