Justin Baldoni Lawsuit Alleges Blake Lively Used Taylor Swift as a Threat
Justin Baldoni‘s newest $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds features many claims, one of which alleges that Lively used her friendship with music icon Taylor Swift to threaten him.
In the lawsuit (via Variety), Baldoni’s legal team included text messages between himself and Lively while filming It Ends With Us. In the text chain, Baldoni discusses a rooftop scene between the pair, which had been reworked by Lively and Reynolds, as well as an alleged meeting that took place between Baldoni, Lively, Reynolds, and what seems to be Swift, where Lively and her husband, along with the pop star, praised Lively’s version of the scene.
According to Baldoni’s lawyers, the filmmaker “felt obliged to text Lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn’t needed Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him.”
“Also was working on rooftop scene today, I really love what you did. It really does [help] a lot,” Baldoni would go on to say in the text message. “Makes it so much more fun and interesting. (And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor) You really are a talent across the board. Really excited [and] grateful to do this together.”
A text from Lively that is also included in the lawsuit sees the actress refer to Reynolds and a redacted name as “absolute titans as writers and storytellers outside their primary gig” and “they also know I’m not always as good at making sure I’m seen and utilized for fear of threatening egos, or fear of affecting the ease of the process. They don’t give a s— about that. And because of that, everyone listens to them with immense respect and enthusiasm. So I guess I have to stop worrying about people liking me.”
The text message from Lively ends with her comparing herself to Game of Thrones’ Daenerys Targaryen, saying that like the Khaleesi, she has a pair of “dragons” who will do whatever is necessary to protect her, which Baldoni’s lawyers claim came as a threat to him.
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