The actress, Blake Lively, protagonist of the film Breaking the Circle, declared for MTZ magazine that she took legal action against her co-star and director of the film, Justin Baldoni, for mounting an alleged campaign to destroy her reputation and carry out alleged actions. sexual harassment during the filming of the film.
Since before the film’s release, Blake and Justin’s relationship was strained by creative differences over the handling of the themes of domestic violence addressed in the film, where Lively sought to highlight her character’s resilience, while Baldoni sought to highlight the issue of domestic violence.
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In the lawsuit to which MTZ had access, it is revealed that the tension on the set led both parties to hold a meeting in which several demands were addressed, among which the following stand out: “no more showing videos or images of naked women to Blake, no more mention of Baldni’s alleged previous pornography addiction, no more talk about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no more mention of cast and crew’s genitals, “no more questions about Blake’s weight and no more mentions of Blake’s dead father,” the magazine reported.
Although the studio accepted the conditions, differences arose regarding the marketing campaign with which the promotion of the film would be managed, which finally led to actions that Blake described as a campaign of social manipulation to destroy his reputation.
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Lively’s lawsuit claims that the campaign caused damage to her business and caused “severe emotional distress” to her family.
For its part, the defense of Justin Baldoni, the lawyer Bryan Freedman, called the lawsuit an effort by Blake to “fix his negative reputation” and his accusations as “false, scandalous and intentionally lewd with the intent to publicly harm,” MTZ reported.