Lena Headey sued for $1.5 million over Thor: Love and Thunder role and more left on the cutting room floor

Game of Thrones and Gunpowder Milkshake star Lena Headey is being sued for $1.5 million by her former U.K. agency Troika over unpaid commission fees for several projects, including a part cut from Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder.

Troika, which re-branded to YMU in 2020, says that Headey owes the company $500,000 – equal to 7% of her fee – for her part in Taika Waititi’s Asgardian epic. Unfortunately, Headey does not appear in the new film, as her role was cut from the film’s final version. The argument does not reveal who Headey played in the movie, only that her character was cut for unknown reasons.

YMU states that Headey also owes the agency $300,000 for the film 9 Bullets, in which Headey stars alongside Sam Worthington in a lead role. Headey also owes $650,000 for her role in the Showtime dramedy series Rita. Headey was set to play the show’s lead character, but after the project failed to secure a series order, the deal fell apart.

Headey says she never signed a formal contract with Troika or its co-founders, Duff co. She believes both acted under an oral agreement when Duff was still at Lou Carl Associates in the late 1990s. As oral agreements are often difficult to parse, it remains unclear if the deals are considered iron clad.

Headey isn’t the only actor cut from Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Christian Bale recently told Presa Escenario that he had filmed scenes with Peter Dinklage’s dwarf king Eitri and Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster. Both characters have been nixed from the final cut, which is unfortunate. According to Bale, he enjoyed working with Dinklage and would have liked to see him in the movie’s final version.

What do you think about Headey, Dinklage, and Goldblum’s parts being cut from Thor: Love and Thunder? Who was Headey playing? Could these stars return in a Director’s Cut of the film? I hope so.