{"id":207,"date":"2022-06-30T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lena-headey-sued-for-1-5-million-over-cut-roles-including-thor\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:36:42","slug":"lena-headey-sued-for-1-5-million-over-cut-roles-including-thor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lena-headey-sued-for-1-5-million-over-cut-roles-including-thor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Headey Sued for $1.5 Million Over Cut Roles Including ‘Thor’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d star Lena Headey is being sued for $1.5 million by her former UK agency Troika over unpaid commission fees relating to a number of projects including the upcoming movie \u201cThor: Love and Thunder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Troika, which re-branded as YMU in 2020, claims Headey owes the agency at least $500,000 \u2014 equivalent to 7% of her fee \u2014 for her earnings on the Marvel movie.<\/p>\n

variety<\/em> can confirm that Headey does not appear in the final cut of \u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d which stars Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman. The movie is set for release next week.<\/p>\n

Reps for Headey and Marvel did not reply to Variety’s <\/em>requests for comment by publication time.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Headey joined Troika in 2005 after following her personal rep, Michael Duff, there from his previous agency Lou Carl Associates.<\/p>\n

Duff co-founded Troika, which in 2017 merged with the James Grant Group. In 2018 the agency was acquired by a private equity firm and re-branded as YMU. Duff left Troika\/YMU in early 2020 and Headey left the agency in May of that year.<\/p>\n

However, Troika\/YMU claims that under the terms of their agreement Headey still owes the agency commission fees on a number of projects including \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d as well as at least $300,000 on the movie \u201c9 Bullets,\u201d in which Headey starred alongside Sam Worthington in a lead role, and $650,000 for Showtime dramedy series \u201cRita,\u201d an adaptation of a Danish series of the same name.<\/p>\n

Headey was set to play the titular Rita character, but the show didn’t secure a series order beyond its pilot episode.<\/p>\n

Troika are seeking an account of commission fees owed, an order for Headey to pay the fees, damages for breach of contract, interest and reimbursement of legal fees.<\/p>\n

In her defense, Headey claims she never signed any contract with Troika or with Duff, and that both parties were acting on an oral agreement formed when Duff was still at Lou Carl Associates in the late 1990s. Her filings also point out that Troika was never Headey’s sole agent, as she is also represented by CAA in the US<\/p>\n

More specifically, Headey disputes that Troika has any claim to commission on \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d \u2014 which she says came about after director Taika Waititi approached her directly \u2014 or \u201c9 Bullets,\u201d neither of which were negotiated by Troika or Duff. Meanwhile on \u201cRita,\u201d Headey says she only ever received $325,000 for the pilot episode, of which Troika has already been paid $22,750, and that \u201cno further episodes are planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

A rep for YMU did not reply to variety<\/em> by press time. Lawyers for Headey and YMU also did not respond by press time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n