Eva Green: Actress wins High Court dispute over $1m film fee

French histrion Eva Green has won a High Court lawsuit implicit her $1m (£810,000) interest for a sci-fi movie that ne'er got made.

The Casino Royale prima sued White Lantern Films, saying she was owed the sum aft the movie collapsed amid a bitter quality with producers.

The ruling follows a proceedings successful January, astatine which substance messages successful which Ms Green called 1 shaper a "moron" and different "evil" were revealed.

White Lantern claimed her "unreasonable demands" derailed the film, A Patriot.

On Friday, justice Mr Justice Green ruled that the 42-year-old histrion was entitled to her fee, and dismissed White Lantern's counterclaim.

He said Ms Green "did not renounce her obligations" nether her contract, arsenic White Lantern had claimed, "nor did she perpetrate immoderate repudiatory breaches of it".

Mr Justice Green added: "There is nary uncertainty that Ms Green did not marque immoderate conclusive determination oregon connection that she would not comply with her obligations nether the creator agreement.

"Nor could anyone person reasonably understood her to person made specified a decision."

However, the justice besides described Ms Green arsenic "in immoderate senses a frustrating and unsatisfactory witness".

Giving grounds successful January, the histrion was asked astir messages she wrote astir the film-makers, including 1 successful which she described 2 of them arsenic "weak and stupid".

She explained by telling the court: "It's my Frenchness coming retired sometimes. Sometimes you accidental things you don't really mean. Of people they are not anemic and stupid."

In his judgement, Mr Justice Green continued: "For specified a perfectionist successful her art, she was amazingly under-prepared for her evidence.

"I recognize the torment it indispensable person been for her to person each her backstage texts and WhatsApp messages revealed successful unfastened tribunal and scrutinised for what they disclosed astir her existent authorities of caput and intentions successful narration to the film.

"She said it was 'humiliating' but immoderate of her explanations for the connection she utilized and the feelings she expressed - specified arsenic they were down to her 'Frenchness' - were not credible oregon adequate.

"However, I bash deliberation allowances request to beryllium made for the heightened emotions that were intelligibly contiguous erstwhile immoderate of the messages were written and for the information that these were assumed to beryllium idiosyncratic correspondence betwixt friends that would ne'er person been imagined to beryllium seen by anyone other and surely not analysed to the grade they were."