This is eye opening - Blake livelys demands to continue filming

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It ends with us.

Seems like Justin baldoni is one messed up guy!

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Number 21 and 26 😬

Yep. His career is over, as it should be. Can't imagine many women wanting to work with him.

I think other clauses are more concerning but haven't been mentioned in the Press

No more showing nude videos or images of women, including producer’s wife

No more mention to Blake Lively or her employees of personal times that physical consent was not given in sexual acts, as either the abuser or the abused

No more entering, attempting to enter, interrupting, pressuring or asking Blake Lively to enter her trailer or the makeup trailer by James Heath or Justin Baldoni while she is nude, for any reason

No more personal, physical touching, or sexual comments by Justin Baldoni or James Heath...and/or any of her employees, as well as any female cast or crew

Combined with the multiple requirements around the sexual scenes including those with sexual violence (and it's pretty clear that they were being done with the intent of sexual gratification), this sounds like they're a pair of self confessed rapists enjoying putting the star in fear of being raped on camera and every other female member of staff being raped off it.

And to think all the hate Blake was getting while promoting the movie. It seems it was all his PR team 😬

I'd be interested who choose him and the James Heath bloke for this film about DV, sounds like they were the worst possible people for the job.

He bought the rights to the book. He wasn’t chosen, he chose it.

Yes what a witch she is for …err wait what? Fuck all.

Go on Blake every normal woman is on your side.

I did wonder if that was the case. Looks like Blake was picked / targeted rather than auditioning too.

I know she's a bit of a drama lama and can come across as awful but this whole thing sounds like a massive powerplay on the men's part to purposefully target her and to get her to perform and simulate more and more sexual scenes. If there had been a proper audition and a bit of luck involved on getting the role it would have been different.

What was he thinking? He obviously thought she’d just suck it up, which makes you wonder about his past work really.

He did buy the rights, but the author only sold to him because he convinced her he was a safe person to make the film.

I felt awful when all this came out, I watched the Blake interview when she was (and she was mean) to the lass interviewing her when she was just trying to be friendly and Blake and her co star were dismissive of her questions I thought Blake seemed horrible. But now reading all the things that have come out about JB and how awful working on that film will have been for her, I feel nothing but bad for her and think she’s been amazing to fight back.

The author who has subsequently supported Blake unconditionally I think

As with all these things in time it comes out and in this instance it shows what utter arseholes these men were.

well done Blake for standing up to them, I also applaude her for ensuring the rest of her employees and staff on set were also covered.

they didn’t like it so started a smear campaign. I sincerely hope this gets to court with the appropriate outcome. Can’t see how he will work again.

What is so awful about this is Blake Lively has power. She's rich and successful she doesn't need to work but yet still had to go to extreme lengths to have a workplace where she didn't suffer sexual harassment. It makes me worried for all the 1000s of actresses out there who do need the job, who can't afford a lawyer. Has anything changed at all since 'me too?'

I don’t understand why with the fame she has and the money that she didn’t just walk away and then sue. Why did she stay until the end of the project? Especially if working conditions were so bad that she had to get Ryan involved etc.

With respect, you need to re-read your post and reflect OP. Sexual assault and harassment brings up intense feelings including shame and guilt for many women and having power etc isn't protective, not all the time,

Why should she walk away from a job because of men's behaviour?

Sounds like he wanted a story with scenes of abuse and violence against women to play out his sick fantasies.

Lawyers cost a lot of money. She was under contract and the costs of walking off set and starting legal action would have not just included the potential loss of a case due to there being no evidence they'd done anything (the meeting and requirements evidences there being problems) but of reputational damage which would travel with her for the rest of her life.

She could/would have ended up unemployable, as has been attempted with the campaign against her and has happened to countless female actors, crew and contractors. And it would have led to every one of those other female employees who disclosed, was seen to be abused or touched or witnessed the behaviour being fired and rendered unemployable in revenge, too.

In the event that there is a court case, the fact that these things were documented at the time, not after walking away (where they'd be treated as fantasies due to being unreliable/on drugs/mentally unstable/ trying to get out of a contractual obligation/a reaction to being rejected sexually/covering up an affair and having to lie to her husband about it /etc) and that she remained professional and did her job gives further credence to her 'side' compared to these rapists and sexual abusers.

That list is oddly specific which makes it clear that it is not all in her imagination or whatever else he's trying to claim.

He is seriously messed up (and I see that he's married!)

It is another woman being abused in the film industry. All of it is crazy behaviour and saying he has been speaking to her dead father is insane and incredibly upsetting. I have seen an interview with Chloe Grace Moretz saying she asked who authorised her wardrobe change when she had signed off on an outfit and someone had added some bra inserts to make her chest look bigger.

A female actress said she was lay under her actor coworker for a sex scene and he told her he loved this because it was almost like approved cheating and tried to get his hand into her knickers and she was trying to stop him. Jennifer Lawrence called out either a director or producer and told him he couldn't talk to her like that because what he was saying was fucked up. She felt confident enough that she had made enough of a name for herself that she could get through being labelled "difficult".

That is the problem with a woman walking off set, she will be labelled difficult and then the rumour mill starts talking about entitlement, and how mean she is or aloof, insert any negative word here. The whole industry is fucked up.

I think he’s hired the same PR person as Johnny Depp had during the Amber Heard business. They have been doing the same to Blake as they did to Amber, basically just saying these are crazy and unstable women. It’s quite sickening.

Absolutely!! Fucking sickening reading that list

She has behaved badly for sure. This stuff has all resurfaced as part of a smear campaign though sadly. She's had her reputation destroyed alongside being told how to promote the film. I had my doubts at the time, especially after listening to the Shameless podcast. He is a mega creep.

because the man made her uncomfortable so why carry on in that circumstance, whether she was under contract or not she had the power and the fame to fight immediately, yes perhaps she was advised by her legal team to stay but with her husband involved etc and other parties to observe like the intimacy coordinator why would she carry on? If she was completely unknown I would get it. I watched the movie and it wasn’t anything special, was it worth compromising her safely? She is already well known, she has done movies before with no issues so why stay? I get if she’s in some abusive relationship hit she wasn’t and had the full backing of her husband and team. I mean also and lock the trailer so she can get changed, refuse to do the birth scene without shorts etc she has power this isn’t a complete unknown new actress who is unable to speak up.

@Dee9409 she did take action - she got him and his pal to formally agree to stop all their creepy behaviour, which they did, and to put in place safeguards like intimacy coordinator, extra producer, protocols around the scrip and nudity etc. Apparently after signing up to the demands things improved for the rest of filming.

Yes she could have walked off but you can absolutely see how several of the incidents might have seemed minor out of context or been minimised or explained away, and individually might not have felt like enough to leave. By pursuing a formal process as she did it also ensured that conditions improved for everyone on the cast, including the younger and less experienced women in the cast.