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Justin Baldoni Drops 10 Minutes Of Unedited It Ends With Us Footage With Blake Lively, Says It Proves He Did Nothing Wrong!

Justin Baldoni Drops 10 Minutes Of Unedited It Ends With Us Footage

Justin Baldoni continues to fire back against Blake Lively’s claims — this time with video proof!

Following months of rumors about a feud between the two It Ends With Us co-stars, Lively filed a lawsuit against the filmmaker late last month, in which she accused him of sexual harassment. Specifically, she recalled one instance in which she claimed “he leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘It smells so good’ while filming a slow dance scene for a montage with “no sound.” Yeesh…

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As part of the lawsuit, she continued:

“None of this was remotely in character, or based on any dialogue in the script, and nothing needed to be said because, again, there was no sound — Mr. Baldoni was caressing Ms. Lively with his mouth in a way that had nothing to do with their roles. When Ms. Lively later objected to this behavior, Mr. Baldoni’s response was, ‘I’m not even attracted to you.’”

However, Justin has vehemently denied her sexual harassment claims. In fact, he recalled this particular moment on set as happening very differently! In his countersuit against Blake, he claimed he did not do anything inappropriate happened on set at that time, and said:

“Lively apologized for the smell of her spray tan and body makeup. Baldoni responded, ‘It smells good,’ and continued acting, slow dancing as he believed his character would with his partner, which requires some amount of physical touching.”

For his part, then, Baldoni claims he did nothing wrong during that scene. Blake, on the other hand? The Jane the Virgin alum accused her of being a bully when she “began to joke about Baldoni’s nose, which he laughed off and joked in turn, even as Lively joked that he should get plastic surgery.” He added:

“Lively alleges Baldoni inappropriately commented on her physical appearance. It was the other way around.”

Telling him to get a nose job, joke or not, is definitely mean girl behavior — if this is true. And according to Justin, it is. He even took things a step further by producing alleged audio and video evidence of the moment!! The actor claimed he wore a microphone at the time despite Blake claiming the “scene was filmed without sound.”

And Justin isn’t messing around with this drama! He even released nearly 10 minutes of the raw footage from the scene in question! And let’s just say that it does not show him making any gross comments or moves on Blake. It actually looked like they had a good time on set!

Before the video begins, a statement from attorney Bryan Freedman reads:

“Ms. Lively’s complaint alleges that during a scene Mr. Baldoni and Ms. Lively were filming for a slow dance montage, Mr. Baldoni was behaving inappropriately. The following videos captured on May 23, 2023, clearly refute Ms. Lively’s characterization of his behavior. The scene in question was designed to show the two characters falling in love and longing to be close to one another. Both actors are clearly behaving well within the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism. These are all three takes filmed of the sequence.”

From there, we see Blake and Justin smiling and laughing as they film the dancing scene.

For one, we get a peek into those creative differences we’ve heard a lot about since day one of the feud rumors, as the two got back and forth about things like the camera angles and lighting. However, it was not 10 minutes of them straight-up arguing and yelling! No! It just looked like two people respectfully bouncing ideas and opinions off of each other at times!

Throughout the first half of the clip, Blake pushes for her and Justin to talk more as they dance because she feels it is “more romantic.” Justin chimed in at one point to say:

“I know you and Ryan talk all the time.”

To which Blake replied:

“Oh my Gosh, we don’t shut up.”

Ha!

The director then shared that he and his wife, Emily, aren’t as talkative at times. The couple has moments where they stare at each other “for five minutes” instead. While Blake laughed at the comment, Justin noted:

“I think you would find it terrifying.”

For her part, she said she would “be like, ‘Oh no, I found a sociopath.’” Damn.

The whole interaction seemed to be going well despite her previous creative inputs until things got a tad awkward. When Justin expressed that he feels Blake and Ryan “are really cute,” she responded:

“I think it’s more than cute.”

He quickly agreed, adding:

“I think it’s amazing.”

Cutting the weird tension, Justin then asked for them to film a moment where they almost kissed. As he and Blake leaned into to touch each other’s foreheads, the Gossip Girl alum breaks into laughter, saying:

“I feel so nosey. I mean it’s like just noses.”

Joking around with her, Justin said:

“I know. And my nose is so big.”

Blake then quipped:

“Yes, I was hoping that we could address this. It’s not too late. Just gotta shut down. Gotta call an insurance month, and just deal with that. Just kidding.”

And it wasn’t just Blake joking! Justin fired back:

“No it’s true. That’s why we hired Jenny Slate, too. Our noses match.”

Ouch! Not Jenny catching strays!!

Before the video wraps up, the two start the scene again with Justin nuzzling her neck. He asks at one point:

“Am I getting beard on you today?”

Blake giggles, saying that she is “probably getting spray tan on” him. That is when he comments:

“It smells good.”

Hmmm…

She added:

“Well, it’s not that. It’s my body makeup.”

Watch the entire unedited scene (below):

At this time, Blake has not reacted to the video.

What do YOU think, Perezcious readers? Does this change your mind about which side you are on in this ongoing battle?! Sound OFF in the comments below!

[Image via Entertainment Tonight/Good Morning America/Access Hollywood/YouTube]

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Jan 21, 2025 16:20pm PDT