What's Up With Dustin Clare and Amber Heard?

I had written some posts about Dustin Clare and Amber Heard as up and coming actors who I thought would be right for the parts of Trent Smith and Samantha Jones in my book Killer of Killers. But that was two or three years ago, and the careers of neither have taken off. Since Spartacus, Dustin Clare hasn't done anything of note, although he's finally resurfaced in the CineMax TV series Strike Back. But it seems to be a very small role.

As for Amber Heard, the biggest news about her has been her marriage to Johnny Depp. Other than that, the news about Amber Heard seems to be legal trouble involving Depp's dogs in Australia. I know she had a role in a B movie Machete Kills, and she's had parts in other movies that never made it to the big screen.

So it looks like my judge of talent is far from exemplary. Maybe it takes a movie like, say, The Transporter, which made Jason Statham into a big time star. Wouldn't it be terrific if Killer of Killers was that movie for Dustin Clare?

Well, Killer of Killers is unlikely to be a movie in my lifetime, anyway, so it's not something to worry about. But if anyone were to read the Killer stories, and like the characters, those would be the faces you could put on the names. That's all.