Blake Lively – rich, beautiful and successful, with an admiring movie star in Ryan Reynolds, powerful friends, including Taylor Swift and a fantastic acting career – have happily thought of the point of invincibility.
Since December 31, however, she has been on the receiving side of a shock lesson in the third law of Newton, who believes that every action has an equal and opposite response.
Her step to burn the reputation and career of Justin Baldoni, her co-star in Hitfilm it ends with us, through a civil complaint filed just before Christmas that accused him of sexual harassment on the set, led to a media form that She has flooded – and Reynolds – in painful ways that they clearly never saw.
So much is indicated by the fact that for two weeks, terribly by a global wave of hostility towards the 37-year-old actress who made her name in TV series Gossip Girl, all responses are eliminated to the respective of the A-list pair Instagram -Accounts.
Even the author who wrote the book on which the film was established has gone so far to close her Instagram this week, so the abuse is leveled at Lively.
Lively and Reynolds, 48, would be expected to go to the Golden Globes on January 7, because his film Deadpool & Wolverine was used up for a price. But they were not present and, perhaps to reduce their shame, nor his co-star and friend Hugh Jackman. All those involved will certainly stay at home on March 2 on March 2.
“Can you imagine that Blake is currently running through a red carpet?” says a Hollywood publicist. “Nobody would be crazy enough to make that happen.”
The turns of this bitter Hollywood -Vete have become steadily more sensational – and more harmful to lively – as January has folded.
Blake Lively on the IT Ends with US premiere in New York with husband Ryan Reynolds last year
The film in the heart of De Veke, based on the Bestseller of 2016 by Colleen Hoover, was released in August and was a cash register. It follows Lily Bloom, a florist played by Lily, who falls in love with a charming but offensive neurosurgeon played by Baldoni, who also directed the film.
The first rumors about a fall-out between the CO stars occurred in the summer after they seemed to avoid each other during the promotion tour of the film and since then had been blown up in a full war after the court case of Lively had fallen on December 23.
This included claims that Baldoni, 41, came in the trailer of Lively while she was topless, showed her pornographic photos and a graphic video of his wife who gave the birth, repeatedly discussed his 'porn addiction', described his own genitals and even little Sucked on the lips of Lively during an improvised pillow scene for which Baldoni was doing several takes.
This week, the Justin Baldoni team released a video of unprocessed images of him and lively that three takes one scene of their characters flirting in a bar, which had given rise to Lively's accusations of sexual intimidation.
Both parties say that the video determines their account, but most people agree what is being shown, a long way looks like the 'predatory' behavior that has been lively complained.
Meanwhile, the statement of Baldoni – that lively his 'stable' film, his credit has erased, banned him to the basement in the night of the premiere, because she would not be in the same room as she and a story about one Story about creepy behavior to hide what she had done – is generally believed on social media. Thousands of mean girls are spreading. Blake has been canceled to say it.
Non -processed images of filming them ended with us who were released this week by the legal team of Justin Baldoni, this week, the actor and lively in a scene in which she claims that she had been sexually harassed
Now it can be revealed that lively must brace himself for more of the same – and worse. Multiple sources related to the lawsuit confirm that the Baldoni team are building a complete website on the case that will be open to the public.
When it goes live, the countless excerpts of unprocessed images from the film, including everything that speaks to 'Lively's original complaint about her co-star. As Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman says: “We have all the coupons – and more.”
This can extend to images of one scene that Lively has complained about where her character works. She said she was 'under pressure' to simulate 'full nudity'; The Baldoni team says she was covered with a prosthetic bump and a hospital dress.
The website will also contain full unprocessed WhatsApp, SMS and E -mail fairs between Lively and Baldoni, such as a message in which she invites him to come and run through lines in her trailer and said she 'pumped' (she had breast milk from not long Had her fourth child at the time of filming).
This could have doubts about her statement Baldoni had entered her trailer several times while breastfeeding, which caused her suffering.
It is unheard of on the one hand to present such a series of evidence to the public, regardless of judicial archives. The move has been described by one legal analyst as 'super-aggressive' and will cause indignation between the Lively team.
The turns of this bitter Hollywood -Vete have become steadily more sensational -and more harmful to lively, here on a gala screening in London in August
However, as we will see, it is very much in the Playbook of Baldoni's attack dog lawyer, Bryan Freedman, who has the reputation to fight hard – his critics would say dirty – and to fight the Court of Public Opinion instead of in the front From a judge. He has called Lively's legal proceedings 'unethical' and 'embarrassing'.
As you would expect, there are signs of despair on the other side to calm things down.
Lively retains four lawyers in two companies – Michael J Gottlieb and Kristin Bender at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Stephanie a Roester and Catherine Rose Noble in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. They say that they have previously issued a 'stop and agreed' notification for alleged intimidation by the Baldoni team in December.
Now they have submitted an application to try Freedman to stop releasing images and information to the media, and say that lively harassment and rules of professional behavior violates test publicity.
The request that is being submitted this week says that Freedman's public statements not only continued the retribution campaign that was the subject of MS Lively's first and abandoned, but they contain countless new false statements about Mrs. Lively and others'. It is assumed that it was Reynolds who insisted on the request for concern about the career of his and his wife and her well -being.
The Lively lawyers submitted a letter directly to Freedman at his office and to the film company Wayfarer, who produced the film. The document, dated Monday, January 20, regrets the release of images from the unprocessed film and criticizes the plans to release 'all correspondence and videos'.
Her lawyers say: 'As the counsel of Mrs. Lively has repeatedly tried to warn Mr. Freedman, the federal lawsuits before the court must be performed and according to the relevant rules of professional behavior. His behavior threatens, and will, both the lively matter and the Wayfarer case, to be damaged by limiting the jury pool, because his statements are deliberately aimed at undermining the 'character, credibility, [and] reputation 'from countless relevant parties.'
A source close to the lawsuit says: 'The attempts to gag Freedman only make it worse for Blake. He penetrates plans to literally place every bit of evidence on a website before the court of public opinion. It has never been done before. '
The issue of evidence, and when it is manipulated, is the core of the first legal steps in this feud and led the New York Times to printed an article of 4,000 words with the title 'Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine' within a few hour The lively lawsuit is tightened.
The article, which is now subject to a defamation complaint of the Baldoni team, claimed that his PRS Melissa Nathan and Jen Abel conspired to create a global smear campaign against Lively at the time of the film's premiere, when the actress was criticized Because he was deaf when using a film about domestic violence to promote her alcohol brands and to tell viewers 'to grab your flowers' to view it.
It mentioned one SMS of his publicist Nathan stating: “We can bury everyone.” Now the initiative seems to be waving back to the Baldoni camp.
One source says: 'It seems like a huge miscalculation to launch a lawsuit when the evidence will come back and show the other side.
“There is a conviction that the Blake team could decide to settle to get her worthy.”
For now, the Lively team is insisting that they want to go to court and no discussions have been opened about a settlement. They say: 'while they [Baldoni’s team] are focused on misleading media stories, we are focused on the legal process. We continue on our efforts to demand Mr Baldoni and his employees that they answer under the court, under oath, rather than by manufactured media stunts. '
Baldoni's lawyer replies: 'Before her lawsuit was brought before the court, Mrs. Lively went to the New York Times in an attempt to publicly destroy Justin Baldoni. When Mr Baldoni exercises his right to publicly defend himself by drawing up real facts and evidence, this is immediately morally and ethically wrong for Mrs. Lively and Team.
'Mrs. Lively wants to apply very different standards to her, but luckily truth and authenticity apply to everyone and they can never be wrong. Looking at the video and the upcoming evidence, I can understand why Mrs. Lively would not want this to take place in public. '
You can see why, when he was profiled in the Hollywood reporter last year, Freedman was characterized as a 'street fighter'.
It is sufficient to say that it does not look that this inappropriate Show Business Brawl will end soon.
