This previous summer time, the It Ends With Us forged and crew have been embroiled in a feud, in accordance with a number of experiences. It all began when TikTook 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 forged distanced themselves from Justin, and gas was added to the fireplace when Justin employed a disaster PR supervisor. At the tip of 2024, 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 advised the outlet that the A Simple Favor actress felt that the director “lingered” too lengthy whereas kissing her on digicam.
Sources additionally advised the outlet that Blake felt “fat-shamed” by Justin whereas engaged on a scene by which 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 “tension” seen in Blake on the set of It Ends With Us.
“The tension was so obvious,” the supply advised the outlet. “Once [Blake] was done with the scene, she was really impatient, said, ‘Am I done? Can I go?’ and as soon as they said, ‘Yes,’ there was like a Blake-size hole in 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 advised Variety on August 27, 2024, that there’s “no world where these two will work together again.”
“This is uncharted territory, and nobody has any idea of what a sequel could look 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 completely different cuts of the movie have been created, inflicting an alleged divide in inventive variations.
As web sleuths have observed, Blake and It Ends With Us e-book creator Colleen Hoover don’t comply with Justin on Instagram regardless that he follows them. And the social media exercise isn’t the one space the place the forged’s relationship allegedly went downhill.
PEOPLE reported on August 13, 2024, that the rumored pressure with Justin includes the “principal cast” and Colleen.
“All is not what it seems,” an insider from the set advised the publication. “There is much more to this story. The principal cast and Elisabeth McGowan Colleen Hoover will 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 setting. According to the outlet, the assembly addressed the next calls for: no extra displaying nude movies or photos of different ladies to Blake; no extra feedback about Justin’s alleged earlier “pornography dependancy; no additional conversations about sexual experiences in entrance of Blake and different individuals; no extra mentions of forged and crew’s genitalia; and no extra inquiries about Blake’s weight.
Another demand that was talked about was “no more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on-camera climaxing by BL outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project,” per TMZ.
TMZ additional reported that It Ends With Us flopped on the field workplace as a result of Blake and Justin disagreed on how you can 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 severe as a result of the film addresses home violence.
In response to her lawsuit, Justin’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, launched an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter, calling Blake’s lawsuit “shameful” that she and her representatives “would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.”
Justin Baldoni Sues ‘The New York Times’
On December 31, Variety reported that Justin filed a $250 million lawsuit towards The New York Times over its revealed story titled, “We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine.” On behalf of Justin and a number of other different plaintiffs, Bryan filed a criticism alleging that the publication dedicated promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract.
In response, a NYT spokesperson stated, “The role of an independent news organization is to follow the facts where they lead. Our story was meticulously and responsibly reported. It was based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article. To date, Wayfarer Studios, Mr. Baldoni, the other subjects of the article and their representatives have not pointed to a single error. We published their full statement in response to the allegations in the article as well. We plan to vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”