“You look at what happened with Alec Baldwin on the movie Rust, the producers were cutting corners, no safety measures and a young woman got killed.” Ms Green said: “You can’t make a quality film by cutting corners.
She referred to Halyna Hutchins’ death last October on the set of Rust while revealing producers slashed her own length of training from four weeks to five days.
On Monday, the actress also cited Alec Baldwin’s fatal on-set shooting of a cinematographer while giving evidence on the “extremely dangerous” stunt training she received for the film. In turn, White Lantern is bringing a counter-claim against Ms Green alleging that she undermined its production, made “excessive creative and financial demands” and had expectations that were “incompatible” with the project’s low budget. The actress is suing production company White Lantern Film, claiming she is entitled to her $1 million (£810,000) fee for the abandoned project, despite its cancellation. I wanted to work with a high-quality crew who just wanted to be paid standard industry rates.” She told the court on Monday: “I have nothing against peasants, I didn’t want to work with a sub-standard crew.