Justin Baldoni shares Blake Lively sex scene details amid ongoing lawsuit
Justin Baldoni's timeline of events, which was shared on a website he reportedly recently published, includes a set of handwritten notes from his meeting with an intimacy coordinator
Justin Baldoni's timeline of events, which was shared on a website he reportedly recently published, includes a set of handwritten notes from his meeting with an intimacy coordinatorTruth about Blake Lively's sex scenes with Justin Baldoni as intimacy notes revealed (
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Details from Blake Lively's sex scenes with It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni have been shared by the director amid the ongoing lawsuit.
Actress Blake made many complaints about her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni, including claims of sexual harassment which have been filed in a lawsuit against Justin. In December 2024, Lively filed a legal complaint accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment on the set of It Ends With Us, as well as embarking on a "multi-tiered plan" with his team to damage her reputation. She claims there was unwanted kissing, talks about his sex life as well as attempts to insert unnecessary raunchy scenes into the movie.
In response to the sexual harassment claims, Baldoni's team released a 10-minute behind-the-scenes clip from the movie. They believe the footage shows there was no wrongdoing from Baldoni and think the words back up their claims. They have previously said the star has ‘nothing to hide’ and feel the footage backs this up. The footage showed the pair filming a slow dance scene for the movie. It also shared audio of the duo engaging in small talk.
Baldoni also filed his own lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds. Baldoni is suing the couple for $400m (£326m) damages on claims of civil extortion, defamation and invasion of privacy following the Gossip Girl star's original complaint. Baldoni also published a website with his latest court filings, including a timeline of alleged events leading up to the messy legal dispute.
Lively allegedly didn't want to meet with the intimacy coordinator until filming started (
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Among the many pages of documents, Baldoni's team included emails, text messages, as well as a set of handwritten notes made by him during a meeting with the movie's intimacy co-ordinator. Lively's lawsuit alleged there was no intimacy coordinator in the project until she asked for one. She also alleged he added unwanted kissing in sex scenes and spoke to her about his sex life.
According to the document Baldoni filed, there was an intimacy co-ordinator involved from the outset, who Lively allegedly declined to meet with until filming began. In one of the texts he allegedly sent to Lively, he said: "Just hired intimacy coordinator who i LOVE. Will set you up to meet/FT with her next week for intro." Lively allegedly responded: "I feel good. I can meet her when we start. :) thank you though!"
Baldoni then relayed the issue to an unnamed female producer, who told him to meet the coordinator without Lively and report back to her. His text read: "Just wanted to tell you about this - seems she doesn't want to meet intimacy coordinator until we start which may mess up the workflow, but I can still meet with her of course."
The producer answered: "That's fine if she doesn't want to meet her now. You'll just have to walk her through what you and [intimacy coordinator] are thinking."
Justin's alleged handwritten notes
Because Baldoni had to meet the coordinator on his own, he was the one who had to relay notes regarding intimate scenes to Lively when the coordinator wasn't present. Lively accused him of making her do "uncomfortable" and "gratuitous" scenes. Baldoni claimed the scenes "were in fact proposed by the intimacy coordinator and by all accounts very typical asks of any actor performing simulated sex scenes".
His lawsuit added it was 'well-documented' in hand-written notes he took during meeting with the coordinator to relay to Lively. He claimed, during a meeting at her home, she rejected a suggestion of Lively's character orgasming during the scene, similar to the book. She allegedly said she's 'too old for that' before he offered a different suggestion taken from the coordinator and they moved on.
"Lively’s inability to discern the basic premise of the divide between collaborating on a film and personal interactions with her co-star and director is woven throughouther claims of sexual harassment," the lawsuit claimed.
Lively's legal team responded to his countersuit in a statement which read: “This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook. This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim. This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offende. Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she wanted it, it’s her fault. Their justification for why this happened to her: look what she was wearing. In short, while the victim focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy of attacking the woman is desperate, it does not refute the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and it will fail.”
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