Eva Green
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A lawyer for Eva Green on Thursday accused producers of a collapsed film of attempting to wreck the performer’s fame by depicting her as a “diva.”
The French actress, who performed Vesper Lynd in James Bond thriller “Casino Royale,” is suing producers for a $1 million payment she says she is owed for “A Patriot.”
Green, 42, was lined up to star in the sci-fi thriller alongside Charles Dance and Helen Hunt, and was also an executive producer on the project, which collapsed in late 2019.
Production company White Lantern Film is fighting the claim and is countersuing, saying Green made “unreasonable demands” and undermined the manufacturing. Hearings in the case opened Thursday on the High Court in London.
Green’s lawyer, Edmund Cullen, mentioned the film had been a “passion project” for Green and she or he had “bent over backwards to get this done.”
He mentioned Green “loved the script and wanted the film to be made,” however “the financial plan was never going to work.”
“This case is designed to paint my client as a diva to win headlines and damage her reputation,” the lawyer mentioned.
Lawyers for the manufacturing firm argue in written submissions that Green had expressed “a lack of confidence and dissatisfaction” in among the manufacturing group and had grown more and more reluctant to be concerned in the challenge.
White Lantern’s proof consists of expletive-filled textual content messages in which Green referred to as one of many film’s govt producers, Jake Seal, “evil” a “devious sociopath” and a “mad man,” and branded manufacturing supervisor Terry Bird a “moron.”
Green’s lawyer, Cullen, mentioned the textual content message needed to be seen “in context” as “an informal venting of a stream of consciousness” throughout a tense stage of the film’s manufacturing.
He accused the manufacturing firm of in search of “to lay every failure of the production at Ms. Green’s door.”
“It seems to be designed to blacken the name of an actor who has not breached a contract or missed a day’s shooting in a career spanning 20 years,” he mentioned in written arguments.
Green is anticipated to testify later throughout the eight-day listening to.