Eva Green, the French actor known for her role in the 2006 version of the James Bond thriller “Casino Royale,” has been awarded $1 million by a British court in a dispute over the collapse of a sci-fi film project called “A Patriot.”
The case played out in court like a melodrama, with the producers portraying Green as a diva who made excessive creative and financial demands, while Green accused the producers of employing bully-boy tactics and using her as a scapegoat for their own failures.
During the trial, the court was told that Green used an expletive when describing potential crew members as “peasants.” She had called one of the executive producers a “devious sociopath” and “pure vomit” and said the production manager was a “moron.” Despite this, Justice Michael Green deemed the case “relatively straightforward” and awarded Green the fee she had been promised for the production.
