Amber Heard Decodes Her 'The Stand' Character, Explains Why Stephen King Is Important

In 1978, Stephen King wrote a 1300 word manuscript called The Stand, about a post-apocalyptic world where the remaining survivors band together in two different camps of good and evil. Actress Amber Heard plays Nadine Cross, a survivor who joins the ‘good’ camp of Boulder Free Zone, but is actually hiding a deep dark secret. “I think that’s the interesting part of what Stephen King has so brilliantly been able to do in creating this story and the characters that live within it, is that they don’t represent good or evil as blanket ideas or concepts,” she said. For me it’s the impulse to do what’s best for us versus doing what’s best for other people.” Nadine Cross is arguably the most complex and debated female character of the Stephen King universe.