Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Michael Kors/ Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Knives are well and truly out when it comes to that Blake Lively AND of Justin Baldon professional relationship.
Both Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, have claimed in their legal battles that they each had a hand in creating different cuts of the film at the center of the drama. It ends with Us.
In her complaint, Lively detailed the alleged alterations Baldoni made during the filming of the film Colleen Hoover book adaptation.
She claimed that additional “graphic” scenes were added that were not originally present in the script.
It Ends With Us director and star Justin Baldoni has filed a lawsuit against The New York Times following its reporting on actor Blake Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment. Baldoni, 40, filed a $250 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, on Tuesday, Dec. 31 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Us Weekly can confirm. (…)
One of the allegedly graphic scenes described in the complaint was a scene that required Lively to “orgasm on camera” — a scene that did not appear in the original script.
“After Ms. Lively signed on to the film based on a draft script, Mr. Baldoni, without Ms. Lively’s knowledge or consent, personally added graphic content, including a scene in which
Ms. Lively would orgasm on camera,” the complaint said. “When Ms. Lively objected to these additions, Mr. Baldoni insisted he added them because he was making the film ‘through the female gaze’.
The legal document went on to describe a simultaneous climactic scene that Lively claimed Baldoni advocated including.
“Although he agreed to remove the scenes, he made a last-ditch effort to keep one in which the couple orgasm together on their wedding night, which he said was important to him because he and his partner climax simultaneously during intercourse,” the complaint. read it. “Mr. Baldoni then asked Ms. Lively if she and her husband climax simultaneously during intercourse, which Ms. Lively found invasive and refused to discuss.
According to Lively’s complaint, Baldoni also allegedly added a scene involving the younger version of her character Lily (played by Isabella Ferrer) loss of virginity.
“Mr. Baldoni added to the film a detailed scene in which the younger version of Ms. Lively’s character, Lily, loses her virginity. In both the book and the film script, there were no sex scenes; instead, the details surrounding this moment were left to the audience’s imagination.” the complaint reads.
He continued there: “But Mr. Baldoni added considerable detail, including dialogue between Young Lily and her lover (Atlas) about losing her virginity, as well as a simulated sex scene in which Mr. Baldoni filmed and included in his initial cut of the Film a close-up of Young Lily’s face, accompanied by an audible gasp at the moment of penetration. Ms. Lively was informed that when this scene was shot, after Mr. Baldoni called “cut,” he turned to the actors and said, “I know I shouldn’t say this, but it was hot,” and “Have you practiced this before?” ?””
Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit against New York Times on Tuesday, December 31. The actor and director is sued for defamation and violation of false light of privacy after The New York Times’ reporting on costar Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment.
The director was one of 10 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which also includes publicists Melissa Nathan AND Jennifer Abel as well as It ends with Us Manufacturer James Heath AND Steve Saraowitz, who started legal proceedings against the media.
In his complaint, Baldoni claimed two different, competing modifications of the It ends with Us appeared during production – one supervised by him and the other commissioned by Lively. Baldoni claimed his version tested significantly higher than Lively’s with focus groups.
Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against The New York Times has shed even more light on the apparent creative differences between him and “It Ends With Us” star Blake Lively. Baldoni, 40, is suing The Times for $250 million, claiming defamation and false invasion of privacy over the paper’s reporting on Lively accusing her of sexual (…)
That same day, Baldoni sued New York TimesLively formally filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, Nathan and Abel, along with Wayfarer Studios in the Southern District of New York.
The suit alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and loss of wages. The allegations parallel those made in Lively’s complaint filed with the California Department of Civil Rights last week.
Lively spoke about her legal action in a statement on Saturday, December 21 Us Weekly.
“I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these evil retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted,” she said.
or New York Times the spokesman said Us Weekly in a statement on Tuesday, December 31 that the media is planning to “vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”
“The role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead,” the statement said. “Our story was reported accurately and responsibly. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including text messages and emails that we quote accurately and extensively in the article. Those texts and emails were also the focus of a discrimination claim filed in California by Blake Lively against Justin Baldoni and his associates.”
The statement continued: “To address some inaccuracies in the lawsuit, when we request comments from Mr. Baldoni and others that would be mentioned in the article, The Times shared the information we intended to publish, including references to specific text messages and documents, asked them to identify any inaccuracies, provide additional context, and speak to our team. Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer and the other entities chose not to have any conversation with The Times or address any of the specific messages or documents and emailed a joint response, which was published in full. (Also, they sent their response to The Times at 11:16 p.m. ET Dec. 20, not 2:16 a.m. ET Dec. 21 as the complaint states.)”
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
(Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)In response to Baldoni’s filing of the lawsuit, Lively’s attorney said us on Tuesday, Dec. 31, that the lawsuit was based on a “manifestly false premise.”
“Nothing in this lawsuit changes anything about the allegations made in Ms. Lively’s California Department of Civil Rights Complaint, nor her federal complaint filed earlier today,” the statement said. “This lawsuit is based on the obviously false premise that the administrative complaint of Ms. Lively v. Wayfarer et al was a ruse based on a choice “not to file a lawsuit against Baldon, Wayfarer” and that “litigation was never her ultimate goal.” As shown by the federal complaint filed by Ms. Lively earlier today, that frame of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is bogus. While we will not discuss this matter in print, we encourage people to read Ms. Lively as a whole. We look forward to addressing each of Wayfarer’s claims in court.”
UPDATE 12/31/21 11:30 PM ET: Justin Baldoni was one of 10 plaintiffs to file a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times following its reporting on actor Blake Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment. The plaintiffs of the lawsuit, which include publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel as well as It Ends With Us (…)
Baldon’s lawyer Bryan Freedman also shared a statement with Us Weeklyvowing to “put down” New York Times for her “vicious smear campaign”.
“In this vicious smear campaign completely orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team, New York Times bowing to the whims and whims of two powerful Hollywood ‘untouchable’ elites, flouting the journalistic practices and ethics that once graced the venerable publication, using doctored and doctored texts and deliberately omitting texts that contradict the narrative of their chosen PR,” he said in a statement to us on Tuesday, December 31. “In doing so, they predetermined the outcome of their story and aided and abetted their own destructive PR smear campaign designed to revive Lively’s self-induced battered public image and counter the organic basis of criticism among the public online. The irony is rich.”
He continued: “Make no mistake though, as we all come together to take down The New York Times By not allowing them to deceive the public any longer, we will continue this campaign of authenticity by also prosecuting those individuals who have abused their power to attempt to destroy the lives of my clients. While their side embraces partial truths, we embrace the whole truth – and have all the communications to back it up. The public will make up their own minds as they did when it first started.”
