Blake Lively recently took an unprecedented action against co-star Justin Baldoni.
Following months of speculation about a feud between Lively and the actress, who starred in the film “It Ends with Us” this year, Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni this week for sexual harassment. I woke you up.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, Lively alleges that Baldoni created a hostile work environment on the set of the aforementioned book production and later engaged in a campaign against his co-workers.
Specifically, the documents allege that Baldoni’s behavior included “showing Blake nude videos and images of women,” along with discussions of Baldoni’s past “porn addiction” or “sexual conquests,” as a result of his live performance. The lawsuit alleges that Lee suffered “severe emotional distress.” ”
At one point, Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds even attended a meeting of film executives to discuss these topics, according to the lawsuit.
Other topics, Per TMZThese included “no further mention of the genitals of cast and crew members, no further inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no further mention of Blake’s deceased father.”
(Lively’s father passed away in 2021.)
TMZ mentions the lawsuit, and also emphasizes that the meeting quoted above “will not add any more sex scenes, oral sex, or on-camera climaxes by BL beyond the scope of the script approved by BL at the time of contracting the project.” It was reported that.
As previously mentioned, there were disagreements over the final cut of It Ends With Us, which Lively produced, and there was also a dispute over how the film was to be marketed.
Lively claimed that Baldoni and others in his camp engaged in a campaign of “social manipulation” to “destroy” Lively’s reputation.
The lawsuit also includes a text message from Baldoni’s publicist to the studio’s publicist stating that Baldoni “wants to feel like…” [Ms. Lively] You can bury her, but “you can’t write about destroying her.”
Baldoni and Lively never appeared on a red carpet together while promoting It Ends With Us, nor did they sit down for a joint interview.
Ms. Baldoni’s attorney, Brian Friedman, has hit back at Ms. Lively’s lawsuit, arguing that it is an attempt to “correct her negative reputation” and that it is “false, outrageous, and intended to publicly harm the public.” “It’s an intentionally despicable thing.”
Before the film’s release, director Baldoni told Variety magazine that when asked about the possibility of a sequel to the film based on the book of the same name, Baldoni and the studio “haven’t started thinking that far ahead yet.” spoke. I try to stay as present as possible. ”
However, I’m going to go ahead and make the following not-so-daring prediction.
If it’s a sequel I will moving forward, that is do not have Starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
