Justin Baldoni Worried About Being Set Up by Blake Lively in Newly Released Text Messages About Filming Intimate Scenes
Justin Baldoni expressed some concerns about being set up by Blake Lively in newly released text messages.
The 41-year-old actor and director has been embroiled in a heated legal battle with his 38-year-old It Ends with Us costar for months now.
In a newly released trove of legal documents, Justin opened up about their relationship and worries that he had about filming some of the movie’s intimate scenes.
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In the legal documents, which were reviewed by PEOPLE, Justin told his former manager Danny Greenberg that he’d had a “really, really bad week” with Blake.
He expressed concerns that Blake “refused” to use a body double for intimate scenes, though she did want Justin to use one for his character, whom she was romantically involved with onscreen.
“That’s just setting me up for a trap,” he worried.
Describing the experience as “a gigantic clusterf—,” Justin added that Blake wasn’t happy with his storyboards for the intimate scenes. He wrote that she wanted the characters to remain in their clothes, which Justin felt was “ridiculous” based on the source material — Colleen Hoover‘s 2016 novel of the same name.
Elsewhere in the exchange, he referred to his costar as “an actress who is rewriting the writer and director” and described the experience as “very draining.”
Speaking to PEOPLE, an insider close to Blake said, “These messages were sent only after Blake had laid out in detail the numerous ways that Baldoni and [Jamey] Heath had created a hostile work environment on the set, after they agreed to more than a dozen ‘protections’ for the safety of the cast and crew, and just days ahead of the January 4 meeting at which these protections would be discussed before filming resumed.”
“The text chain underscores Baldoni’s retaliatory intent,” they alleged, adding, “It reflects his private anger over the same safeguards that he had said in public were both ‘reasonable’ and ‘essential,’ and which he later admitted in his deposition were reasonable, including his resentment for having to show up to an ‘all hands’ meeting he had also agreed to.”
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