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"Amber Heard has defended her new series The Playboy Club against critics. The Parents Television Council, Women&amp;#039;s rights leader Gloria Steinem and The Good Wife star Christine Baranski are among those to have criticised the show&amp;#039;s concept. Responding to the attacks, Heard told Collider: &amp;quot;It wouldn&amp;#039;t have any effect on me, even if they had seen the show. But, they haven&amp;#039;t seen the show so what does that matter to me?&amp;quot; The actress added that questions about the NBC drama&amp;#039;s content are &amp;quot;legitimate&amp;quot; but insisted that its female characters are &amp;quot;empowered by [their] sexuality&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I have to make that distinction because, in 2011, we should not see the two as the same thing. They are very different.&amp;quot; Heard also claimed that she had been &amp;quot;blown away&amp;quot; by &amp;quot;the amount of trailblazers [and] trend-setters&amp;quot; that she met while researching The Playboy Club. &amp;quot;There were many women who went on to do things, like have careers and be entrepreneurs,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;There are women who have talked to us about their experiences. They might exist, but I have yet to meet an ex-Bunny who&amp;#039;s disgruntled about her experience.&amp;quot; The Playboy Club begins on Monday, September 19 at 10/9c. &amp;gt; Playboy Club not inappropriate, says NBC chief Watch a clip from The Playboy Club below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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