Everything Justin Baldoni accuses Blake Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds of in lawsuit as he is discussed in new explosive footage
Ryan Reynolds has been thrust back into the centre of the It Ends With Us drama after behind-the-scenes footage was released.
It turns out that the Deadpool star, 48, was a prominent topic of conversation between his wife Blake Lively and her co-star Justin Baldoni as they filmed an affectionate slow-dance scene.
As well as sharing their ideas about how to improve the shot, cracking an awkward nose joke and having a chat about the smell of a spray tan, the warring pair talked about Reynolds.
Baldoni, who directed as well as starred in It Ends With Us, was heard conversing with Lively about her 14-year relationship with The Proposal actor.
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Both Baldoni and Lively have referenced shooting the slow dancing scene in their respective lawsuits, although they both have very different perspectives on what the video shows.
The pair have been locked in a legal battle since December - after the Gossip Girl star accused him of sexual harassment and organising an alleged ‘social manipulation’ campaign against her.
Baldoni branded the claims 'categorically false' and filed a $250 million suit against The New York Times due to an article they shared regarding the allegations.
The Jane the Virgin actor then sued Lively, her publicist, and her husband Ryan Reynolds for $400 million, accusing them of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, among other damning claims.
He has made a series of shocking allegations in the 179-page document which has been filed on behalf of him, his production company Wayfarer Studios and others.
A lot of these are regarding the behaviour of Reynolds while It Ends With Us was being filmed, from mid 2023 to early 2024.
Here's the full rundown on everything which Baldoni has alleged about Lively's husband.
Reynolds' alleged expletive-ridden rant
In Lively's explosive lawsuit, she alleged that she felt 'fat-shamed' by Baldoni on set as she claims her co-star regularly criticised her 'body and weight'.
However, the filmmaker, 41, has branded these allegations 'entirely and categorically false', while suggesting that Reynolds drastically overreacted to them when he got wind of it.
Baldoni admits he did ask his personal trainer, who Lively introduced him to, what his co-star weighed - but insists this was because he had a history of back problems and didn't want to injure himself during a dancing lift scene in the movie.
His lawsuit claims: "Still during the pre-production phase, Lively and Reynolds raised entirely false allegations of fat-shaming against Baldoni: an accusation that, as evidence will show, was categorically false.
"Baldoni was summoned to the penthouse by Lively and greeted by Reynolds, who swore at Baldoni and accused him of fat-shaming his wife ('How dare you f***ing ask about my wife's weight? What's wrong with you?'').
"The confrontation from Reynolds and Lively was so aggressive that Baldoni felt he had no choice but to offer repeated (and completely unwarranted) apologies for what was a good faith and reasonable question to ask of his trainer."
'Aggressive tirade'
During a break in filming, it's alleged that Lively revealed her concerns about the 'hostile' circumstances on set in a meeting, while sharing her list of requirements for returning to work.
She reportedly reeled off 30 demands which must be met before she committed to finishing the film.
Lively is said to have brought Reynolds along as her chosen 'representative' - but according to Baldoni's lawsuit, the Two Guys and a Girl actor 'launched into an aggressive tirade' during the sitdown.
It states: "Reynolds and Lively blindsided the rest of the group with a list of grievances, read aloud by Lively, that were as troubling as they were fictional.
"Reynolds then launched into an aggressive tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a 'traumatic' encounter. As Baldoni later said, he had never been spoken to like that in his life."
Reynolds' alleged tampering with talent agency
According to Baldoni, his co-star's husband tried to meddle with his career as tensions continued to rise.
The actor has alleged that Reynolds contacted his talent agency, William Morris Endeavor (WME), to discuss his 'deep disdain' for him.
The lawsuit claims that Reynolds suggested that the firm should stop working with Baldoni, while making bold claims about his alleged behaviour towards Lively.
It is alleged that this conversation took place 'during the premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine'.
The lawsuit continued: "Reynolds approached Baldoni's agency, namely, an executive at WME, and expressed his deep disdain for Baldoni, suggesting the agency was working with a 'sexual predator' (a phrase that uncoincidentally later appeared in the press) and, at a later date, demanded that the agent 'drop' Baldoni."
Staff cull
Lively allegedly got rid of editors and a composer that Baldoni had hired and replaced them with people who had worked on Deadpool, according to the lawsuit.
Rob Simonsen is currently credited as one of the It Ends With Us composers and he worked with Reynolds on the 2024 superhero film which also starred Hugh Jackman.
Baldoni's lawsuit claims that Lively shook up the staff working on set in favour of hiring people who regularly collaborated with her partner.
"Ultimately, Lively replaced the Film's editors with her own choice: an editor often used by Reynolds, and the Film's editors had to be let go," the legal documents state.
"She also replaced the Film's award-winning composer with composers from Reynolds' recent project – even though the Film's composer had already finished the score, with an orchestra (which is costly)."
Peer pressure
In one of the most bizarre revelations from the lawsuit, Lively is alleged to have compared herself to Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen, boasting that she is protected by her 'dragons'.
Baldoni claims that his co-star had sent him a rewritten version of the rooftop scene and that he then expressed 'extremely mild resistance' to the suggested tweaks.
However, Lively was alleged to have been left 'seemingly stung' by his response and roped in Reynolds and a 'mega-celebrity friend' to help change his mind.
The lawsuit states: "Hours later, as the meeting was ending, a famous, and famously close, friend of Reynolds and Lively, walked into the room and similarly began praising Lively’s script.
"Baldoni understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively’s direction for the script."
He later text Lively explaining he had 'liked' her notes on the scene and that he didn't need 'Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him', prompting Lively to send the GOT text.
'Unauthorised' script changes
Although Lively supposedly claimed she had rewritten the scene, the actress later said that her husband was responsible for it.
At the New York premiere for It Ends With Us, almost a year after the sit down, she said of the rooftop scene: "My husband actually wrote it. Nobody knows that but you now.
"We help each other. He works on everything I do; I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine and mine are his."
Discussing this in the lawsuit, Baldoni claims that this came as a 'startling revelation' to the team working on the movie.
The legal documents claim that her admission 'directly contradicted Lively's previous insistence that she had written the scene - and certainly casts Reynolds' high praise for the rewritten scene in a different light'.
It continued: "The film's credited screenwriter, when asked about the claim that Reynolds had written the scene, graciously responded, 'So if I’m being told that Ryan wrote that, then great, how wonderful'.
"She went on to acknowledge, 'There were a few little flourishes that I did not write...and if those flourishes came from Ryan, I think that’s wonderful'.
"This was also the first time that Plaintiffs learned that Reynolds—who had no formal role whatsoever in the Film’s production—had made unauthorised changes to the script in secret.
"Baldoni, equally blindsided by this news, which he discovered in real time during a recorded interview with Access Hollywood, reacted by also praising Reynolds, so as not to harm Lively, Reynolds (who apparently wrote the scene, and possibly others, during the WGA strike), or the Film."
Lively 'copied' Reynolds' Deadpool approach
As Deadpool fans may be aware, Tim Miller who directed the first film in the franchise, did not return to work on the sequel.
Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman sent a notice to Reynolds and Lively asking them to 'preserve all relevant documents and data' in relation to Miller's departure on 7 January.
It was rumoured to have stemmed from 'creative differences' that he had with Reynolds - and according to Baldoni, Lively wanted to follow in her partner's footsteps.
The lawsuit said: "Lively may have felt driven to match her star husband Ryan Reynolds, who is widely reported to have insisted on taking so much control over the Film "Deadpool 2" that the director, Tim Miller, left the production.
"Seeing the fame and success that Reynolds commanded, she may have adopted his oft-repeated pattern wholesale to seize her own power and control.
"Following his lead, and evidenced by many statements by Lively that he is involved in every project she works on and vice versa, Lively and Reynolds, accustomed to getting their way, perhaps felt entitled."
Public apology demands
Lively and Reynolds allegedly demanded that Baldoni issue a public apology to them both as they navigated an 'avalanche of negative media coverage'.
The lawsuit claims that the couple 'drafted' up a statement for the star to use and that they made the request via their talent agency WME, which also represented Baldoni before he was later dropped.
"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," the lawsuit alleges.
"Multiple WME executives acknowledged that in their experience, Lively and Reynolds' threats were not to be taken lightly, though admitting to false, vague, and unspecified 'mistakes' would be tantamount to admitting to career-ending misconduct. Baldoni, Wayfarer, and Heath refused to apologise for sins they had never committed.
"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."
LADbible has previously contacted Baldoni's, Lively's and Reynolds' representatives for comment.
Topics: Blake Lively, Deadpool, Justin Baldoni, Ryan Reynolds, TV and Film, US News, Celebrity
Olivia Burke