Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni’s ‘It End With Us’ Version

Knives are well and truly out as far as Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni professional relationship.

Both Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, claimed in their respective legal battles that each was involved in creating various cuts. film at the center of the drama, It ends with us.

IN her complaintHe vividly detailed the alleged changes Baldoni made during the making of the film Colleen Hoover book adaptation.

She claimed that other “graphic” scenes were added that were not originally in the script.

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 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 had an orgasm on camera,” the complaint said. “When Ms. Lively objected to these additions, Mr. Baldoni insisted that he added them because he was shooting the movie ‘through the female point of view.’

The legal document went on to describe a simultaneous climactic scene, which Lively claimed Baldoni advocated for its inclusion.

“Although he agreed to remove the scenes, he made a last-ditch effort to keep one of the couple orgasming together on their wedding night, which was important to him because he and his partner climaxed at the same time during intercourse,” the complaint states. read. “Mr. Baldoni then persistently 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 allegedly added a scene involving a younger version of her character Lily (played by Isabela Ferrer) loses her virginity.

“Mr. Baldoni added a detailed scene to the film in which a minor version of Ms. Lively’s character, Lily, loses her virginity. There was no sex scene in both the book and the film script; instead, the details of this moment were left to the audience’s imagination. “complaint read.

It continued: “But Mr. Baldoni added considerable detail, including dialogue between Young Lily and her boyfriend (Atlas) about losing her virginity, as well as a simulated sex scene that Mr. Baldoni filmed and included in his opening 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 filmed, after Mr. Baldoni called it “cut,” he walked over to the actors and said, “I know I’m not supposed to say this, but it was hot,” and “you two practiced it before ?”

Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, December 31. The actor and director is suing for defamation and false light invasion of privacy after The New York Times coverage of Lively’s costar after she sued him for sexual harassment.

The director was one of 10 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which includes publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel as well as It ends with us manufacturers James Heath and Steve Saraowitz, who initiated legal proceedings against the medium.

In his complaint, Baldoni sought two different, competing remedies It ends with us appeared during production – one supervised by him and the other commissioned by Lively. Baldoni claimed that his version tested significantly better than Lively’s with target audiences.

That same day, Baldoni filed suit The New York Times, Lively has officially filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, Nathan and Abel along with Wayfarer Studios in Southern New York.

The suit alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages. The claims match Lively’s complaints filed last week with the California Office of Civil Rights.

Lively addressed her legal action through a statement on Saturday, December 21 My Weekly.

“I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about wrongdoing and help protect others who may be targeted,” she said.

AND New York Times said the spokesman My 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 carefully and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including text messages and emails, which we quote accurately and extensively in the article. Those texts and emails were also at the heart of a discrimination lawsuit filed in California by Blake Lively against Justin Baldoni and his associates.

The statement continued: “In order to address some of the inaccuracies in the lawsuit, when I requested comments from Mr. Baldoni and others who would be mentioned in the article, The Times shared the information we intended to release, including links to specific text messages and documents, asked them to identify any inaccuracies, provide additional context, and speak with our team. Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer and the other entities chose not to converse with The Times or address any of the specific text messages or documents, instead emailing a joint response that was published in full. (They also 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 stated in the complaint.)

Lively’s attorney said in response to Baldoni’s filing of the lawsuit Our on Tuesday, Dec. 31, that the lawsuit was based on a “manifestly flawed premise.”

“Nothing in this lawsuit alters the claims presented in Ms. Lively’s California Department of Civil Rights complaint or her federal complaint filed today,” the statement said. “This lawsuit is based on the patently incorrect premise that Ms. Lively’s administrative complaint against Wayfarer and others was a ruse based on a decision ‘not to file a lawsuit against Baldoni, Wayfarer,’ and that ‘litigation was never her ultimate goal.'” As demonstrated by the federal complaint that filed today by Ms. Lively, this frame of reference for the Wayfarer lawsuit is bogus.While we won’t address the matter in print, we encourage people to read Ms. Lively’s complaint in its entirety. We look forward to addressing each of Wayfarer’s allegations in court.”

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman also shared a statement with My Weeklypromising to “take down” The New York Times for his “naughty smear campaign”.

“In this brutal smear campaign completely orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team New York Times hidden from the desires and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding the journalistic practices and ethics once befitting a revered publication, using edited and manipulated texts and deliberately omitting texts that challenge their chosen PR narrative,” he said in a statement. Our on Tuesday, December 31. “By doing so, they predetermined the outcome of their story and aided and abetted their own devastating PR smear campaign to revive Lively’s self-inflicted decaying image and counter an organic wave of criticism among the online public. The irony is rich.”

He continued, “Make no mistake though, for we will all unite to destroy The New York Times by no longer allowing them to deceive the public, we will continue this campaign of authenticity by also suing those individuals who have abused their power to try to destroy my clients’ lives. While their side accepts partial truths, we accept the full truth – and we have all the communications to support it. The public will make up their own minds as they did when it started.”