Brandon Sklenar Urges Fans to Read Blake Lively’s Complaint Against Justin Baldoni

Brandon Sklenar is talking out in help of Blake Lively following her sexual harassment criticism filed towards their It Ends with Us director and costar Justin Baldoni. 

Sklenar, 34, who starred within the movie with Lively and Baldoni, shared on his Instagram Stories on Monday, Dec. 23, a screenshot of the criticism filed by the actress on Dec. 20. 

He included a hyperlink to the New York Times‘ archive of the authorized paperwork, writing, “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READ THIS.” Sklenar additionally tagged the Instagram account of Lively, 37, including a crimson coronary heart emoji. 

Lively’s criticism, which is a precursor to submitting a discrimination lawsuit in California, was filed towards Baldoni, his manufacturing firm Wayfarer Studios, its co-founder Steve Sarowitz, It Ends with Us lead producer Jamey Heath and people named in an alleged effort to tarnish Lively’s status through an intensive retaliatory smear marketing campaign: Jed Wallace, Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel. 

Filed months after rumors of behind-the-scenes strife between Baldoni, 40, and the solid of the Colleen Hoover adaptation, the criticism alleges that Lively “has suffered from grief, fear, trauma, and extreme anxiety” due to Baldoni’s alleged actions, which included “invasive, unwelcome, unprofessional and sexually inappropriate behavior.”

Bryan Freedman, a lawyer for Baldoni, advised PEOPLE that Lively’s allegations are “false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly damage.”

In a assertion shared on Monday, Dec. 23, Freedman addressed the claims of a smear marketing campaign, saying that “audiences discovered Lively’s personal actions, interviews and advertising through the promotional tour distasteful.”

It Ends with Us stars Sklenar because the older model of Atlas Corrigan, former flame of Lively’s Lily Bloom, a lady embarking on a relationship with Ryle Kincaid (performed by Baldoni) that goes from romantic to abusive. 

In August, the 1923 star posted an impassioned be aware to his Instagram, asking It Ends with Us followers to “be part of one thing higher collectively,” shouting out Hoover and his castmates, together with Lively, Isabela Ferrer and Jenny Slate.

The put up, which Sklenar edited Monday to incorporate solely a coronary heart emoji as its caption, beforehand learn, “Vilifying the ladies who put a lot of their coronary heart and soul into making this movie as a result of they imagine so strongly in its message appears counterproductive and detracts from what this movie is about. It is, actually, the other of the purpose.”

Sklenar then advised Access Hollywood in September that the negativity surrounding the movie “just seemed silly to me,” including, “It’s an vital movie for thus many ladies and so many survivors of home abuse and that is what it is all about, is making individuals really feel heard and robust and liked.”

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Also voicing their help for Lively following her authorized motion in latest days are her sister Robyn, A Simple Favor director Paul Feig, actress Amber Heard and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars: America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn.

In addition, on Monday, Sony, the studio behind the movie, issued a press release in help of Lively.

“We have beforehand expressed our help for Blake in connection along with her work on and for the movie. We totally and firmly reiterate that help right this moment,” the assertion learn. “Further, we strongly condemn any reputational assaults on her. Any such assaults haven’t any place in our enterprise or in a civil society.”