“As an actor it was very exciting, as a role of a soldier … was a role I have never played before and it is about climate change and it’s very dear to my heart and important.”īut under cross-examination by Max Mallin KC, a barrister for the production company, she also admitted to expressing fears that the film would become a “B Shitty” movie under Seal, telling the court: “When you appear in a B movie you are labelled as a B movie actress. “It was one of the best scripts I have ever read,” she said. She told the court on Monday that the script for the film had been one of the best she had ever read and she “really fell in love with this story”. It’s not over the top, it’s how it works.” When it was put to her that there was no obligation to pay standard rates, Green replied: “In order to make a quality movie you need to hire a quality crew who are paid standard industry rates. I did not want to work with a substandard crew.” “I have nothing against peasants,” joked Green, laughing nervously, before she added: “I meant I did not want to work with locals who were not experienced. Green is accused of effectively wrecking the film when it became clear the budget was lower than expected and production values could be compromised.Īsked about other messages to her agent, in which she had lamented that she could be “obliged to take shitty peasant crew members from Hampshire”, Green insisted that she was referring to a desire to work with a “quality crew” who were paid standard rates. Their evidence includes vituperative WhatsApp messages in which she referred to Seal and his colleague Terry Bird as, respectively, “pure vomit” and “a fucking moron”. The two companies are countersuing, alleging that she pulled out of and breached her contract in relation to the dystopian thriller.

Green, who is suing White Lantern Films and SMC Speciality finance for her $1m (£807,000) fee she says is owed over the collapse of the planned independent film, was giving evidence on Monday after the start of the case last week. “You look at what happened to Alec Baldwin on the movie Rust – producers were cutting corners on safety measures which were in place and a young woman got killed,” she said, referring to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021 in the US.

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