Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against 'It Ends With Us' co-star, Justin Baldoni, who countered with his own $400 million defamation suit.
Blake Lively wanted to be more than just an actress on a set, according to an unearthed interview from the 2022 Forbes Power Women's Summit. During the sit-down in New York, Lively, 37, admitted some directors and producers felt uncomfortable with her need to feel 'authorship' while working on projects.
But I also knew, like, that wasn't fulfilling for me, that I wanted to be a part of the storytelling, that I wanted to be part of the narrative, whether that be in the writing, in the costume design, in creating the character.' Despite some willingness from production for Lively to be hands-on with the project, Lively also said she received backlash.
Sometimes, I had directors or producers or writers who would welcome that and invite that once they saw that I was able to offer that, and sometimes I would have people who really resented that because they were like, we just hired you to be an actor. 'Yet when I went in the meetings, I would just seem like I'm just there to be the actor and ready to get the gig, I wouldn't reveal that I actually need to have authorship in order to feel fulfilled.
She added, 'So, I think that for them, sometimes that might have felt like a rug pull because you're like, you're trying to assert yourself into something that we didn't hire you to do, and so it was a really strange position to be in. I want to have more authorship. It's about knowing what I want and what I need and knowing what I need from the outset.
Afterward, Lively invited Baldoni over to her New York City home, where the actor said he felt Swift and Reynolds pressured him into using the rewritten scene. 'Later, Baldoni felt obliged to text Lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him,' the complaint said. Lively filed a sexual harassment suit in December against Baldoni, his Wayfarer studio and former PR reps.
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