Game of Thrones star Lena Headey ‘sued’ over role in Thor: Love and Thunder

Lena Headey is reportedly being sued by her outdated company (Image: WireImage)

Sport of Thrones star Lena Headey is being sued by her former company for $1.5million (£1.2million) over her scrapped function in Thor: Love and Thunder, it has been claimed.

Troika, which modified its identify to YMU in 2020, claims that Headey owes them at the least $500,000 of the cash she earned from the brand new Marvel film.

In line with Selection, Headey, 48, was ultimately lower from the movie and won't seem, however YMU imagine that they're entitled to the equal of seven% of the fee price she acquired for her work.

As well as, the expertise company are additionally reportedly aiming to safe $300,000 (£249,000) over her work in Gigi Gaston’s film, 9 Bullets, from earlier this 12 months.

On high of that, YMU are apparently claiming that they're entitled to an additional $650,000 (£541,000) for the star’s stint for unaired Showtime sequence Rita, which didn’t safe a sequence order.

Headey was set to look because the titular character within the adaption of the unique Danish sequence, however solely shot a pilot episode.

Lena starred as Cersei Lannister in Sport of Thrones for all 8 of its seasons (Image: Helen Sloan/HBO)

In line with court docket paperwork, Troika/YMU and Headey joined collectively in 2005, after her private consultant Michael Duff joined the corporate.

Nevertheless, Duff ultimately left Troika/YMU in early 2020 and Headey additionally departed from the corporate in Could of the identical 12 months.

Headey additionally starred in Twist, a 2021 remake of Oliver Twist, for Sky Cinema (Image: Sky Cinema)

Troika/YMU declare that, underneath the phrases of the settlement signed with Headey, the actress owes the company fee charges from quite a lot of initiatives.

Her defence claims that she by no means signed any such contract with Troika/YMU or with Duff, and that any settlement made was verbal.

Additionally they alleged that the association was made when Duff labored for his earlier company, Lou Carl Associates, within the late Nineteen Nineties.

Courtroom filings utilized on Headey’s behalf point out that Troika/YMU was by no means her sole consultant, as she was additionally represented by US company CAA.

Headey’s defence particularly disputes that Troika/YMU has any declare to the fee she acquired for the brand new Thor film and that she solely turned concerned upon direct method from director Taika Waititi.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Lena Headey’s reps for a remark.