Blake Lively Blasts Justin Baldoni’s ‘It Ends With Us’ Raw Footage

Blake Lively slammed her ‘It Ends With Us’ co-star Justin Baldoni after releasing 10 minutes of raw footage of a crucial scene from their film.

The actor’s legal team released the clip in an attempt to refute Lively’s sexual harassment allegations in her lawsuit.

However, according to a new report, Blake Lively is happy that Justin Baldoni posted the video because she believes it proves she was sexually harassed and shows how uncomfortable she was during the scene.

On Tuesday, Baldoni released footage from his shoot with Lively, showing interactions between the actors, which his legal team says dispute Lively’s Dec. 20 sexual harassment allegations against her co-star and director.

However, in a lengthy statement, Lively’s lawyers applauded the release of the video, insisting that it proves the allegations made in the actress’ lawsuit.

They said TMZ: “Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest case will preempt the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning. Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in paragraph 48 . of his complaint.

“The video shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning toward Ms. Lively, trying to kiss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck, brushing her lips with his thumb, caressing her, telling her to how good she smells, and talking to her out of character,” the lawyers continued. Blake Lively’s lawyers say the video resonates with women who are harassed in the workplace by their bosses.

In their statement, Lively’s lawyers claimed that Baldoni “improvised” the scene and made the actress uncomfortable because there was allegedly no prior discussion.

They also noted that although Lively and Baldoni were co-stars, the actor was also the director and her “employer,” implying there was a power imbalance.

The lawyers said: “Every moment was improvised by Mr. Baldoni, without discussion or prior consent, and without the presence of an intimacy coordinator. Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively’s co-star, but also the director, the head of the studio. and Ms. Lively’s boss.

According to the legal team, the actress’s moving away from Baldoni in the scene was not an act, as she appears to have felt “discomfort” after allegedly being touched without her consent.

“The video shows Ms. Lively leaning over and repeatedly asking the characters to just talk,” Lively’s lawyers continued. “Any woman who has been touched inappropriately in the workplace will recognize Ms. Lively’s discomfort. She will recognize his attempts at levity to try to deflect unwanted touching. No woman should have to take defensive measures to avoid being touched by her employer without her consent. consent.”

As previously reported The explosionFootage from the set of “It Ends With Us,” shared by Baldoni’s team and obtained by media outlets, captures a scene where Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, film a slow-motion montage of their characters, Lily and Ryle, dancing. without dialogue.

In the footage, the two are seen chatting out of character and exchanging jokes about Baldoni’s nose and Lively’s spray tan.

In Lively’s legal complaint, she alleged that during a “slow dance scene,” Baldoni “leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear to her neck saying, ‘It smells so good.'”

However, the video shows Lively joking about putting her spray tan on Baldoni, to which he laughs and responds, “It smells good.”

In his $400 million countersuit, Baldoni accuses Lively of suggesting he have plastic surgery to alter his nose.

At this point, the raw footage also includes the co-stars making light-hearted remarks about Baldoni’s nose, with Lively referencing plastic surgery in the jokes.

After the 10-minute clip aired, Baldoni’s team announced plans to launch a website aimed at responding to and refuting Lively’s allegations of behind-the-scenes misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

“Justin Baldoni and the team have nothing to hide and this proves it once again,” the statement read. People Magazine bed. “It is important that everyone involved “has the right to defend themselves with the truth,” and that is what we will continue to show with the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos that disprove his claims. “

The planned website would provide detailed correspondence and additional videos to counter Lively’s accusations.

Baldoni also filed a $400 million defamation suit against Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, alleging defamation, extortion and many other claims.

The actor had already hit the New York Times with a $250 million defamation lawsuit alleging the post helped promote Lively’s “unverified and self-serving narrative.”

Shortly after Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit, Lively’s lawyers fired back against the actor and accused him of using “DARVO” tactics against his co-star.

“This latest lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and his associates is another chapter in the abusers’ playbook,” Lively’s lawyers said, according to the newspaper. Daily Mail.

They continued: “It’s an old story: A woman comes forward with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the attacker tries to turn the tables on the victim. It’s what experts call DARVO . Deny. Reverse Victim Offender.”

The lawyers added that Baldoni’s lawsuit was “retaliation” for Lively’s earlier lawsuit and that her legal team is “attempting to shift the narrative toward Ms. Lively by falsely claiming she took creative control and alienated the cast of Mr. Baldoni.”