This previous summer time, the It Ends With Us solid and crew have been embroiled in a feud, in accordance with a number of stories. It all began when TikTok customers observed that movie star Blake Lively and her co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, didn’t pose for footage collectively on the August 6, 2024, New York City premiere. Rumors surfaced claiming that the solid distanced themselves from Justin, and gasoline was added to the fireplace when Justin employed a disaster PR supervisor. Now, Blake has filed a lawsuit towards Justin for alleged sexual harassment on the set of their film.
Hollywood Life is breaking down the timeline between the drama and the authorized battle between Blake and Justin, beneath.
Rumors of Tension Circulate
On August 14, 2024, TMZ reported that there was discomfort between Blake and Justin whereas filming a kissing scene. Insiders informed the outlet that the A Simple Favor actress felt that the director “lingered” too lengthy whereas kissing her on digital camera.
Sources additionally informed the outlet that Blake felt “fat-shamed” by Justin whereas engaged on a scene wherein his character, Ryle, lifts her character, Lilly, into the air. Justin reportedly has a historical past of again points, and after he allegedly requested an on-set coach how a lot Blake weighed, she felt that he was fat-shaming her, in accordance with the outlet.
Page Six reported that an eyewitness recalled “rigidity” seen in Blake on the set of It Ends With Us.
“The rigidity was so apparent,” the supply informed the outlet. “Once [Blake] was finished with the scene, she was actually impatient, mentioned, ‘Am I finished? Can I am going?’ and as quickly as they mentioned, ‘Yes,’ there was like a Blake-size gap within the wall [sic]. She was so outta there.”
Fans have been asking whether or not or not Blake and Justin would work on the sequel, It Starts With Us. However, a supply informed Variety on August 27, 2024, that there’s “no world the place these two will work collectively once more.”
“This is uncharted territory, and no person has any concept of what a sequel might appear like,” the insider added.
How Did Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni’s Feud Escalate?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmakers’ working relationship was impacted throughout post-production. The publication reported that two totally different cuts of the movie have been created, inflicting an alleged divide in artistic variations.
As web sleuths have observed, Blake and It Ends With Us ebook creator Colleen Hoover don’t observe Justin on Instagram although he follows them. And the social media exercise isn’t the one space the place the solid’s relationship allegedly went downhill.
PEOPLE reported on August 13, 2024, that the rumored rigidity with Justin entails the “principal solid” and Colleen.
“All will not be what it appears,” an insider from the set informed the publication. “There is rather more to this story. The principal solid and Elisabeth McGowan Colleen Hoover can have nothing to do with him.”
Blake Lively Sues Justin Baldoni
On December 21, 2024, TMZ reported that Blake filed a lawsuit towards Justin for alleged sexual harassment. The lawsuit acknowledged that an all-hands-on-deck assembly was held on the set of It Ends With Us to deal with the alleged poisonous work surroundings. According to the outlet, the assembly addressed the next calls for: no extra displaying nude movies or photos of different girls to Blake; no extra feedback about Justin’s alleged earlier “pornography habit; no additional conversations about sexual experiences in entrance of Blake and different individuals; no extra mentions of solid and crew’s genitalia; and no extra inquiries about Blake’s weight.
Another demand that was talked about was “no extra including of intercourse scenes, oral intercourse or on-camera climaxing by BL outdoors the scope of the script BL accepted when signing onto the undertaking,” per TMZ.
TMZ additional reported that It Ends With Us flopped on the field workplace as a result of Blake and Justin disagreed on the best way to market the movie. According to the outlet, Blake allegedly needed the her character’s resilience to be the main target, whereas Justin allegedly needed to make the main target extra critical as a result of the film addresses home violence.
In response to her lawsuit, Justin’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, launched a press release to The Hollywood Reporter, calling Blake’s lawsuit “shameful” that she and her representatives “would make such critical and categorically false accusations towards Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet one more determined try to ‘repair’ her destructive popularity which was garnered from her personal remarks and actions through the marketing campaign for the movie; interviews and press actions that have been noticed publicly, in actual time and unedited, which allowed for the web to generate their very own views and opinions.”