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Justin Baldoni Implies Hollywood Execs Are Terrified Of Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds!

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Justin Baldoni filed an enormous $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively on Thursday.

It’s an official legal battle, sure, but it’s also a way to publicly tell his side of this whole It Ends With Us debacle. His contention? Blake decided from the start she’d take over the movie — which she saw as a hot IP that could be her franchise, the way hubby Ryan Reynolds has Deadpool. He even mentions in the suit how Ryan pushed the director of the first Deadpool out of the franchise and took control. He’s arguing Blake was trying to do that with Colleen Hoover‘s best-seller, with Ryan by her side. Everything else, the accusations against him and his producing partner, all to threaten or hurt their reputations, making it easy to push them aside and seize control.

It’s obviously a very different version of events from Blake’s filing. And which one you believe will ultimately come down to whether you can buy that Ryan and Blake are, well… kind of effing monsters!

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In Baldoni’s version, every step of this has been calculated, Machiavellian, and all about business. It wasn’t even for love of the material — he says Blake didn’t read it. It’s all about branding, and he makes it sounds like she really only was into the flower stuff. Talk about The Shallows. But to get her way, he says she and Ryan pulled tricks like having her bestie Taylor Swift subtly pressure him to use Blake’s script pages. Or weaponizing #MeToo to convince Sony the director was a liability — thus getting her way.

The Five Feet Apart filmmaker paints a portrait of these two as shrewd, conniving, vicious… Hell, he even implies powerful Hollywood execs were terrified of them!

In a story about how she was bullying him and his company Wayfarer, Justin says Blake was upset about all the bad press she was getting — something he says happened organically because fans didn’t think she was being sensitive to the film’s domestic abuse subject matter. They definitely noticed he was separated from the rest of the cast.

Blake’s alleged idea? Get him to publicly apologize! The suit says:

“Shortly after the Film’s premiere and the public backlash against Lively, Lively, together with her husband, Defendant Ryan Reynolds (“Reynolds”), demanded through their talent agency, which also represented Wayfarer and Baldoni, that Plaintiffs publicly apologize for so-called “mistakes” during production in order to deflect the avalanche of negative media coverage of Lively. Reynolds and Lively drafted a statement and demanded that Baldoni, Wayfarer, and Heath issue that statement, requiring them to apologize to the public and fall on their sword, despite having done nothing wrong—or else the ‘gloves would come off.'”

Oof. Blake and Ryan even wrote the apology? Crazy if true! And that threat! But here’s the part that gave us chills. He says of his William Morris Endeavor talent agency execs — powerful people in Hollywood, make no mistake:

“Multiple WME executives acknowledged that in their experience, Lively and Reynolds’ threats were not to be taken lightly”

Damn! He makes it sound like everyone is afraid of these two! It’s certainly a good answer to the question we’ve seen about why, if Blake is the mean girl here, are all the cast on her side? The same reason everyone bows and scrapes to the other Regina Georges of the world — not out of love but out of fear.

If he’s telling the truth, anyway.

Justin says he and Wayfarer “refused to apologize” for “career-ending misconduct” they were innocent of:

“They took a stand, knowing full well that Lively and Reynolds would bring the full might of their celebrity artillery against them. And that is precisely what happened.”

The gloves off approach, per Justin, would be the public declaration he and Jamey Heath sexually harassed her and launched a smear campaign to retaliate.

It obviously all fits… if you believe Blake Lively is the kind of mean girl who would try to take over a movie, invent sexual misconduct to frame a man she didn’t like, and get so thin-skinned at the internet’s disapproval that she blamed an imaginary PR campaign.

According to Justin, those Hollywood execs… they were at the very least scared of what she was capable of.

What about YOU, Perezcious readers? Where are you falling on all this now?

[Image via MEGA/WENN.]

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Jan 17, 2025 15:10pm PDT