Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Michael Kors/Photo by Fraser Harrison/Getty Images)The knives are well and truly out when it comes down to it Blake Lively and To Justin Baldoni professional relationships.
Both Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, claim in their legal battles that they each participated in the creation of different versions of the film is at the center of the drama, It ends with us.
c her complaintLively detailed the alleged changes Baldoni made during the filming of Colleen Hoover book adaptation.
She claims that additional “graphic” scenes were added that were not originally in the script.
It Ends With Us director and star Justin Baldoni is suing the New York Times over 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 requiring Lively to “orgasm on camera” — a scene that did not appear in the original script.
“After Ms. Lively signed off on the film based on the draft script, Mr. Baldoni, without Ms. Lively’s knowledge or consent, personally added graphic content, including a scene in which
Ms. Lively orgasmed on camera,” the complaint states. “When Ms. Lively objected to these additions, Mr. Baldoni insisted that he added them because he was making the film ‘through the female gaze.'”
The legal document goes on to describe a simultaneous climactic scene that Lively claims Baldoni recommended to include.
“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 says is important to him because he and his partner climax at the same time during intercourse.” , the complaint says. read. “Mr. Baldoni then intrusively asked Ms. Lively if she and her husband climaxed at the same time during intercourse, which Ms. Lively found invasive and refused to discuss.”
According to Lively’s complaint, Baldoni also added a scene involving a younger version of her character Lily (played by Isabella Ferrer) loss of virginity.
“Mr. Baldoni added a detailed scene to the film in which the underage version of Ms. Lively’s character, Lily, loses her virginity. In both the book and the film script, there was no sex scene; instead, the details of that moment were left to the audience’s imagination.” the complaint read.
It continues: “But Mr. Baldoni added quite a few details, including both the dialogue between the young Lily and her boyfriend (Atlas) about losing her virginity, and a simulated sex scene that Mr. Baldoni filmed and included in his original installment from 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 that scene was filmed, after Mr. Baldoni called “direct,” he went to the actors and said, “I know I shouldn’t say this, but that was hot,” and , “Have you two practiced this before?”
Baldoni sued for $250 million vs New York Times on Tuesday, December 31. Actor-director sues for defamation and invasion of privacy after New York Times report on costar Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment.
The director was one of 10 plaintiffs in the case, which also includes publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel as well as It ends with us manufacturers James Heath and Steve Sarowitz, who started legal proceedings against the media.
In his appeal, Baldoni asserts two different, competing editions of the It ends with us occurred during production – one overseen by him and the other commissioned by Lively. Baldoni claims his version tested significantly higher than Lively’s with focus groups.
Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit against The New York Times has shed further light on the apparent creative differences between him and It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively. Baldoni, 40, is suing The Times for $250 million, alleging defamation and invasion of privacy over the paper’s reporting on Lively, who is suing him for sexual (…)
Baldoni filed suit that same day New York Times, Lively officially filed a lawsuit v. Baldoni, Nathan and Abel, along with Wayfarer Studios in the Southern District of New York.
The suit alleges sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages. The allegations parallel those made in Lively’s complaint filed with the California Department of Civil Rights last week.
Lively spoke about her lawsuit in a statement on Saturday, December 21 to Us Weekly.
“I hope my lawsuit helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to hurt people who speak up about wrongdoing and helps protect others who may be targeted,” she said.
A New York Times a spokesman said Us Weekly in a statement on Tuesday, Dec. 31, that the outlet plans to “vigorously defend itself 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 thoroughly and responsibly. It is based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including text messages and emails, which we quote accurately and in detail in the article. Those text messages and emails were also the basis of a discrimination lawsuit filed in California by Blake Lively against Justin Baldoni and his associates.
The statement continued: “To address some inaccuracies in the case, when comments are sought from Mr. Baldoni and others who will 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 conversations with The Times or address any of the specific text messages or documents and instead emailed a general response, which was published in full. (Also, they sent their response to The Times at 11:16 p.m. ET on Dec. 20, not 2:16 a.m. ET on Dec. 21, as the complaint says.)”
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 case was based on a “manifestly false premise.”
“Nothing in this lawsuit changes anything about the claims presented in Ms. Lively’s California Division of Civil Rights complaint, nor her federal complaint filed earlier today,” the statement said. “This case rests on the patently false premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer et al was a ruse based on a choice ‘not to sue Baldoni, Wayfarer’ and that ‘the lawsuit was never her end goal.” As the federal complaint filed by Ms. Lively earlier today shows, that frame of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is incorrect. While we will not argue this matter in the press, we encourage people to read Ms. Lively’s full complaint. We look forward to addressing each of Wayfarer’s allegations in court.”
UPDATE on 12/31/21 11:30 p.m. ET: Justin Baldoni was one of 10 plaintiffs who filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times following reports about actor Blake Lively after she sued him for sexual harassment. The plaintiffs in the case, which also include publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, as well as It Ends With Us (…)
Baldoni’s lawyer Brian Friedman also shared a statement with Us Weeklypromising to “take down” New York Times for his “vicious smear campaign”.
“In this vicious smear campaign entirely orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team, New York Times subject to the whims and caprices of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, flouting the journalistic practices and ethics once befitting a respected publication, using forged and manipulated texts and deliberately omitting texts that challenge their chosen PR narrative,” 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 devastating PR smear campaign designed to revive Lively’s self-inflicted shaky public image and counter the organic tide of criticism among online audiences.” The irony is rich.
He continued: “Make no mistake though as we all unite to take down The New York Times by no longer allowing them to deceive the public, we will continue this campaign for authenticity by also prosecuting those individuals who have abused their power to try to destroy the lives of my clients. While their side accepts partial truths, we accept the full truth – and we have all the communications to back it up. The public will decide for themselves as they did when this first started.
