The former Bond girl is giving evidence in a £4million legal battle over A Patriot – a film she was set to star in before production was shut down in October 2019.

She is suing production company White Lantern Films, claiming she is entitled to her $1million (£810,000) fee for the movie, despite its cancellation.

In text messages used in White Lantern’s claim, Ms Green is said to refer to one of the film’s executive producers, Jake Seal, as ‘evil’, a ‘devious sociopath’, ‘a liar and a mad man’ and ‘pure vomit’. She is also said to have called production manager Terry Bird ‘a f****** moron’ and described the men as ‘total a***holes’.

Confronted with one message calling her director and producer ‘weak and stupid’, Eva Green blamed them on ‘my Frenchness coming out’. She said: ‘Sometimes I say emotional things I don’t really mean. Of course they are not weak and stupid.’

[Text in haste, repent at leisure. This reminds me a bit of the lawsuits over the film “Boxing Helena,” which Kim Basinger abandoned — and initially lost $8 million in court before Basinger settled as part of her bankruptcy action. Whatever Basinger paid to get out of “Boxing Helena” was worth it, as it was one of the worst films of the decade. If texting was around at the time, I’d bet Basinger’s texts would have been spicy, too. — Ed]