Blake Lively suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment

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According to TMZ Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment on the set of ‘It Ends With Us’.

According to the lawsuit, a meeting was held in regards to the hostile work environment. Blake demanded that Baldoni stop showing nude videos or images of women to her, no more mention of Baldoni's alleged previous "pornography addiction," no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crew's genitalia, no more inquiries about Blake's weight, and no further mention of Blake's dead father and no more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by Blake outside of the script Blake approved when signing onto the project.

Baldoni’s representative have denied the allegations and state this is an effort for Blake to rehabilitate her recent poor image.

www.tmz.com/2024/12/21/blake-lively-sues-justin-baldoni-sexual-harassment-retaliation-on-it-ends-with-us-set/

I just watched the video. It's top story of the dailymail.

I don't think it really shows that Justin baldoni is telling the truth.

It does show that Blake looks uncomfortbale and keeps getting him to stop kissing her. (In a polite way).

He keeps kissing her. And she says to him in the video "I think it's more romantic if we talk, not kiss". Several times. She does seem uncomfortable

I have looked at some of the material JB side put forward for their case, but cant see it really makes the case, or invalidates what she says.

After watching that video, Justin baldoni does look like he is acting a bit creepy towards Blake in my opinion.

He is kissing her neck, and she says to him 'I think it's more romantic if we talk instead of kiss'.

He does it again.

She says to him to stop again

Thanks @Postpartumproblemo

I agree from watching the video that Blake Lively was pulling back from him quite a lot while also acting her socks off about being 'in love with him'.

Lots of 'don't kiss, let's talk' and not reciprocating all the nuzzling he is doing.

If there was an intimacy co-ordinator, shouldn't have what would happen between them be agreed in advance?

Yeah I've watched the video now too.

It doesn't appear quite the way BL characterised it in her lawsuit, but I also don't think it's a total gotcha for JB either.

She's an actress trying to act like she's falling in love, hence laughing, smiling. None of that means she didn't also feel uncomfortable and I agree she does say to him a few times that she doesn't want him to kiss her. If this is their best evidence that she's making it all up then it's pretty weak in my opinion.

So JB says “3 takes in total” and everyone just believes him? Who knows how many there were. He co-chairs the studio with a billionaire and Jamie Heath was producer and chief executive.

Plus he was director / her boss. I think it supports her argument & he is a predator!

So worrying that someone in Blake's position of power can be subject to something like this - what hope is there for the rest of us?

I don't think that Justin looks very nice in that video.

Movie stars are very vulnerable as they are the only people who have to simulate sex at their place of work. (Apart from poem stars)

And they have no say on how much they are touched, kissed etc.

I've seen a lot of female actresses saying that they have fely uncomfortable about sex scenes

Justin doesn't look good in that he looks a bit creepy.

Blakes attitude is also a bit strange. She's the actress and he's a director. She's constantly telling him what to do.

It was a very bad match. In an ideal world they really should have stopped making the movie together. If they don't get along at the start , it's only going to get worse.

But I think some actresses can't get out of a movie contract, isn't that right.

Her contract would have been very hard to get out of

I think this is a good lesson in Hollywood on how to improve things for people.

Don't simulate kissing/ sex without asking for explicit permission. Have an intimacy coordinator for kisses touching and sex.

Make sure that everyone is comfortable

Also , .have a clause in the contract where an actress can get out of the contract and not be sued, if the working environment becomes unbearable.

I've watched the video. I don't think it proves either sides point.

IMO Blake does look uncomfortable, pulls away at times and asks to talk instead of kissing.

Blakes attitude is also a bit strange. She's the actress and he's a director. She's constantly telling him what to do.

She is constantly telling him not to kiss her which totally illustrates what she was saying.

The director shouldn’t get to kiss her just because he’s the director and decides to kiss her mid scene.

The level of intimacy should have been agreed before the scene so that no one should have been telling anyone to stop kissing them.

A woman telling a man to stop kissing her and he doesn’t, isn’t a good look, regardless of whether he is the director.

Yeah but it's not just this video.

He said that she constantly told him what to do, and threatened to stop the production if she didn't get her way etc.

He also said that she made him sit in the basement for the Premier. She refused to have him sitting in the same room as her .

Just to clarify I'm more on brakes side.

But I think it's important to discuss both sides.

I can see in that video she doesn't want him to kiss her. Or go near her at all. Not surprising seeing as she didn't like him. He's not even really trying to kiss her , he's just bringing his face near her. But you can see she doesn't want it as as she doesn't like him

However there is going to obviously be some kissing in the movie, as they are playing a romantic couple.

So it's a bit blurred if she says that when he tried to kiss her, or smell her neck, that it's sexual harassment.

Guidelines for kissing and intimacy need to be improved in movies I think

I think the point is going off piste as to what’s previously been agreed regarding the scene.

Yes i see that point.

However , I think with a lot of kissing scenes in movies they don't agree to what exactly is happening, before it happens?

I've heard other celebs talk about kissing scenes.

The director will say "just go for it and try a few different things".

Blake did not like Justin at all, she really disliked him. So she didnt like him touching or kissing her ar all.

I mean the whole thing was a recipe for disaster.

They severely disliked each other so they should have stopped the movie at the beginning

I've seen the videos and to me it looks like he's trying to get the film made and she doesn't want to be there. I'm seeing the scene as the part where the characters get together and have their first kiss - which is why it's all slow mo and touchy feely, heads together will they won't they. The point of that type of scene is they eventually kiss ... So where was she expecting it to end? She's acting, so what her and Ryan do or what JB and his wife do is irrelevant. He's the director and presumably the script was pointing towards this being inevitable. If she truly didn't like the man, couldn't work with him, didn't want to work with him she should have walked and asked them to recast her part.

I'm not defending him if he has misbehaved it's just those clips don't show a lot beyond she can't take direction. But I do agree that the content of the scene should have been agreed first.

Interesting comment from intimacy coordinator: Link

Paywall breaker: Here

When asked what stood out to her about the scene, she said: 'The first thing is that he is trying to kiss her, and they clearly haven’t discussed that ahead of time, and she keeps pulling away and clearly doesn’t want to do that.'
Adding there was 'no kissing written into the scene' (a script excerpt reads 'EXT BAR – NIGHT. Lily and Ryle slow dance in the bar. Patrons around them drinking and watching sports. Completely in their own world'), Schacter said if an intimacy coordinator had been present, they would have stopped any kissing.

She says it was Baldoni's responsibility to ask Lively what she thought of kissing in scene - but claims 'he just went for it. She pulled away, and then he did it again.'

Schachter said his alleged failure to communicate that was 'pretty damning, both as an actor and director.'

She doesn't 'think either one of them is lying. I think they’re both talking from their own experience. They are really strongly disagreeing about things like professionalism, etiquette, what’s appropriate, what’s not, what it means to be an actor.'

Quizzed on the power dynamic between Lively and Baldoni, Schachter said 'even though she’s Blake Lively and can say no and isn’t going to be fired for speaking her mind the way that somebody else might fear, she still has to keep working with him and keep the peace and play nice.'

She added she can 'see her appeasing him and trying to keep a smile on her face and that it was 'murky' as to who is truly in charge.

Schachter said she did not see the clip as 'vindicating Baldoni' and that if she were the coordinator onset she would have discussed what Lively was comfortable with and what Baldoni wanted as director so the pair were 'not caught off guard.'

Lady Colin Campbell (huh?) has now weighed in on this. Unfortunately I don't have a link so you'll need to have a Google.

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds to ask court to drop Justin Baldoni's suit
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Are they asking for the whole lawsuit to be dismissed then?

That article is really difficult to understand and not helped by the use of the word 'drop' but I think it says they're trying to have his case dismissed.

If you google and look at any other publication, it makes more sense. She's not dropping anything,

there is SO much more to this whole saga than this one video (which he put out to prove that what she actually said in her lawsuit was not factual) If he gets done for sa/sh I will eat my hat! And if they don't end up owing him a lot of money.

Is that new voice note that's out from justin to blake, real?

What the one after she said she was khskeesi and she had her dragons? If so yes

I didn't hear that on the one I listened to.

The voice note I listened to (it's on tiktok).

Justin sends blake a voice note at 2am in the morning and he Is apologising for something , and then he says

"You probably have a baby on your boob right now"