Blake Lively
Jose Perez/Bauer Griffin/GC Imagesforward Blake Lively File a lawsuit against her It all ends with us co-starring and directing Justin BaldoniAccused of sexual harassment, retaliation and more, the actress opens up about the crucial importance of intimacy coordinators.
“I think it’s critical to have an intimacy coordinator,” Lively, 37, told us digital spy In an August 2024 interview, published three months before she filed a lawsuit against Baldoni in the Southern District of New York.
“You coordinate the stunts, you coordinate the dance, that’s the choreography,” she continued. “So being able to say, ‘This is what happens here, here and here in the stunt,’ ‘This is what happens here and here in the dance,’ but it’s like, ‘Now you put your bodies together, And then your mouth and stuff, and then action, cut it off.
Lively went on to say that she believes “careful choreography” in intimate scenes is critical to everyone’s safety.
Lively formally sued Baldoni on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, us weekly Allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages were previously confirmed. In addition to Baldoni, Lively also sues publicist Melissa Natahan and Jennifer Abeland Wayfarer Studios.
Lively filed a similar complaint with the California Civil Rights Division.
“I hope my legal action helps lift the lid on these sinister retaliation tactics designed to harm those who dare speak out about wrongdoing and help protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement. . us.
In response, Badoni responded to new york times On the same day, he reported Lively’s sexual harassment allegations. In the lawsuit, Baldoni accuses the newspaper of invasion of privacy with defamation and false reporting, and accuses the newspaper of “cherry-picking” communications and omitting context to mislead readers.
The lawsuit also accuses Lively of conducting a “strategic and manipulative” smear campaign against Baldoni, using false “allegations of sexual harassment to assert unilateral control over all aspects of the production.”
Baldoni also claimed Lively never met the intimacy coordinator during filming It all ends with us.
“In this vicious smear campaign orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team, new york times Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, bowed to the needs and whims of two powerful “pariah” Hollywood elites and ignored journalistic practices and ethics that once suited a respected publication, using Texts that have been doctored and manipulated, and intentionally omitted that are controversial to their chosen PR narrative.
“In doing so, they predetermined the outcome of the story and aided and abetted their own devastating public relations smear campaign aimed at reviving Lively’s self-induced troubled public image and countering the online public’s a natural wave of criticism,” Friedman continued. “The irony is rich.”
