Blake Lively criticizes Justin Baldoni’s raw footage from It Ends With Us

Blake Lively She slammed the “It Ends With Us” co-star. Justin Baldoni After releasing a 10-minute raw clip of a crucial scene from their film.

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

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

On Tuesday, Baldoni released footage from his film with Lively, showing interactions between the actors, which his legal team claims challenges the sexual harassment allegations Lively made on December 20 against her co-star and director.

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

They said TMZ: “Justin Baldoni and his attorney may hope that this latest stunt will outweigh the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning. Every frame of the footage released confirms, verbatim, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her complaint.”

“The video shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning toward Ms. Lively, trying to kiss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his face and mouth on her neck, brushing her lip with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smelled, and speaking to her in a manner inconsistent with her nature,” the lawyers continued. Blake Lively’s lawyers say the video resonates with women who experience harassment in the workplace by their bosses.

In their statement, Lively’s lawyers claimed that Baldoni “improvised” the scene and made the actress uncomfortable, as there were no prior discussions.

They also pointed out that although Lively and Baldoni were co-stars, the actress also served as a director and “employer,” suggesting a power imbalance.

“Every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni without any prior discussion or approval, and without the presence of an intimacy coordinator,” the lawyers said. “Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively’s co-star, he was also the director and head of the studio. And Ms. Lively’s boss.”

According to the legal team, the actress leaning away from Baldoni in the scene was not an act, as she apparently felt “disturbed” after being touched without consent.

“The video shows Ms. Lively leaning away and repeatedly telling 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 her permissive attempts to try to deflect unwanted touching. No woman should take defensive measures to avoid being touched by her employer without her employer’s consent.” “

As previously reported Explosionfootage from the set of “It Ends With Us,” shared by Baldoni’s team and obtained by the media, captures a scene in which 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 talking out of character and exchanging jokes about Baldoni’s nose and the spray tan that Lively uses.

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

However, the video shows Lively apparently joking about the possibility of getting her spray tan on Baldoni, and he laughs and responds: “It smells good.”

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

Up to this point, the raw footage also includes the co-stars making lighthearted remarks about Baldoni’s nose, with Lively referencing the plastic surgery in jest.

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

“Justin Baldoni and the team have nothing to hide and this proves it once again,” the joint statement read. People magazine He reads. “It is important that everyone involved ‘have the right to defend themselves with the truth’ and this is what we will continue to demonstrate through the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos debunking her claims.”

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

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

The actor had been struck earlier New York Times with a $250 million defamation suit, alleging the publication helped push Lively’s “unverified and self-serving narrative.”

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

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

They continued: “This is an old story: A woman speaks out with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the attacker tries to turn the tables on the victim. This is what experts call DARVO. Denial. Attack. Reversal of the victim.” “The perpetrator.”

The lawyers added that Baldoni’s lawsuit was “retaliation” for a lawsuit previously filed by Lively and that his legal team is “attempting to shift the narrative to Ms. Lively by falsely claiming that she has seized creative control and alienated actors from Mr. Baldoni.”