four months after the release of it ends with usBlake Lively is set to sue her co-star and director Justin Baldoni. for sexual harassmentClaiming that he also led a coordinated effort to destroy his professional reputation during the rollout of the film. In a legal complaint filed Friday, Lively writes that Baldoni hired the services of Melissa Nathan — a crisis PR specialist whose past clients include one Johnny Depp — to help her do this.
It has been a matter of public record for some time that Depp manipulated the truth and weaponized the public’s dislike of complex, independent women in order to win his 2022 defamation lawsuit. Ex-wife Amber HeardPortraying him as abusive and unstable. The media war that Baldoni waged against Lively was similar, causing the actor to become somewhat difficult and out of touch, insisting that she and her husband Ryan Reynolds start their own editing. Had done. it ends with us(It was this, rather than Baldoni’s cut, that was ultimately released.) In text messages subpoenaed by Lively’s lawyers, Baldoni also discusses various promotional and social media strategies used to change the narrative around the film in their favor. Can be used to fold in.
Yet Lively’s complaint details the toxic work environment created during shooting by Baldoni and producer Jamie Heath. Upon returning to the set in early 2024, it ends with us Following last year’s guild strikes, Lively called a meeting with Baldoni and several of the film’s producers, asking, according to the documents, that Baldoni and Heath “stop showing nude videos or images of women, including the producer’s wife, to BL and/or Do it.” or his employees,” among other inappropriate behavior, such as retouching kissing scenes. (She also requested the presence of an intimacy coordinator on the set.) Elsewhere, the documents allege that “During filming, Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath invaded Ms. Lively’s privacy by entering her makeup trailer uninvited , including when she was naked, including when she was breastfeeding her newborn child.” Baldoni apparently sought Nathan’s help when he realized Reynolds had blocked him on Instagram, in hopes of moving on from Lively’s complaints on set going public.
Baldoni’s legal team has called the lawsuit “shameful” and full of “blatantly false allegations,” but at this point, I think we all owe Blake Lively an apology. As Nathan said in a text message, “It’s really sad because it shows you (how) people really want to hate women.” No one deserves to tolerate this – A-list Hollywood actors or otherwise.
