Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer In footage from the set of “It Ends With Us,” Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively engage in a polite, even friendly, discussion about how to show their characters falling in love.
Should they kiss? Or is it more romantic for them to talk? He smiles. She laughs. Yet, they were growing to despise each other.
She thought Baldoni — the co-star, director, and studio head — was overstepping her boundaries; he felt she couldn’t take direction.
That simple interaction from May 2023 — which might in other circumstances have been marked down to “creative differences” — has flourished over the last month into an all-out legal war, leading to a civil rights complaint and four lawsuits (so far).
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