Eva Green was so concerned she would have to make what she had described as a career-wrecking B-movie that she discussed pretending she had been hospitalised in order to avoid turning up, a court has heard.
Max Mallin KC said Green was so concerned about what would happen if called upon to perform that she suggested her agent, Charles Collier, “invent a story about Ms Green being hospitalised”. Their evidence has included vituperative WhatsApp exchanges with her agent and a writer, in which the actor referred to a lead producer, Jake Seal, and his colleague Terry Bird as, respectively, “pure vomit” and “a fucking moron”.
In closing arguments on Green’s behalf, her lawyers said: “EG is a professional actor who has not breached a contract in a 20-year career. She had been advised by Mr Collier as to the consequences – namely a huge claim for damages such as that which she has had to confront. Moreover, such a course would be career threatening.”
Green’s barrister, Edmund Cullen KC, previously told the court that the case was “designed to paint my client as a diva to win headlines and damage her reputation”.