Eva Green feels humiliated because her WhatsApp was discovered during a trial

Eva Green is in the midst of a dispute with the White Lantern Film company over the cancellation of the film “A Patriot”, in which Green was supposed to star under the direction of Dan Pringle. The actress signed a contract with the production which included the clause “do or pay”but the company could not find the necessary financing and canceled the project in 2019. Green sued them for a million dollars and White Lantern, together with financial firm Sherborne Media Finance, defended itself with a counterclaim accusing her of “conspiracy, deception and unlawful interference” because, they say, it was she who brought about the collapse of the production with the intention of appropriating the rights to the script and making the film herself.

As part of the trial, which celebrated its fourth day on Tuesday, January 31, several messages were exposed that Green initially exchanged privately with other people, including his agent, Charles Collier of Tavistock Wood; or Pringle, the director and screenwriter of “A Patriot”. In those WhatsApps, ‘Peaky Blinders’ actress calls Sherborne’s team “idiots” AND “sad people” describing one of the producers, Jake Seal, as “evil” OR “the devil”.

During questioning, Green described how “chaotic” the atmosphere of the shoot, which would not have enough equipment, training for stuntmen or personnel in the production offices: “It was like an imaginary movie”Explain. In another message he called “fucking peasants” to the Black Hanger Studios team e “shit B movie” to the entire project. Furthermore, he also expressed in writing that he wanted to withdraw so as not to work with Seal, which, in his opinion, hurt the quality of the film by lowering the budget. This message is crucial to the defense, which uses it as evidence that it would have been Green who abandoned ‘A Patriot’ causing it to be canceled and not vice versa. When asked if she used to lie in her communications, Green said yes “a very direct way of saying things” and that he didn’t expect those messages to be exposed, he described the whole situation as “humiliating”.

cry of the heart

Green also justified that sometimes when you get angry you say things you don’t mean and that aren’t necessarily true: “You hear a person and say, ‘I’m going to kill him,’ but are you going to kill this person? No. It’s a cry from the heart.” To exemplify all of this and excuse him from saying he didn’t want to continue in the film, he used his “Casino Royale” partner Daniel Craig as an example, who said in an interview in 2015 to promote “Spectre” that he’d rather slit his wrists before to interpret agent 007 again: “But did he cut his wrists? No, he did another Bond film and didn’t cut his wrists. Sometimes you say things because you are under extreme pressure. They just came out. And I know the story because I know Daniel” He said waking up the laughter in the room.

Max Mallin KC, a lawyer for the production company, accused Green of asking her driver, John Ward, to whom she had written to warn him that the film was likely to be cancelled, to lie for her and that she shouldn’t talk to anyone. of the “total asshole” of the production team. In that exchange, she also said that she believed she would be sued and that she was looking to transfer the project: “I’m not crazy,” Green replied, “I know what would happen if I broke my contract. My reputation would be destroyed and I would never work again.” Before concluding his testimony, Judge Michael Green asked Green how much he initially understood he was invested in the film. He replied that he started out at about eight or nine million before halving.