Justin Baldoni as soon as claimed that Blake Vigorous was making an attempt to set him “up for a lure” whereas filming 2024’s It Ends With Us by not utilizing a physique double, in keeping with new unsealed textual content messages.
In authorized paperwork filed by Vigorous’s administration firm, WME, on Monday, January 5, and obtained by Us Weekly, a textual content change between Baldoni, 41, and his former WME agent Danny Greenberg, detailed his on-set worries on December 30, 2023.
“Hey man, had a extremely actually unhealthy week,” Baldoni, who directed and starred reverse Vigorous, 38, in It Ends With Us, started earlier than recapping the pair’s alleged interactions. “She [Lively] had the audacity to electronic mail me instantly and invite me to a gathering at her home alone if I selected. She’s refused a physique double which now Sony [the film’s distributor] and Todd [Black, a producer on the film] have to leap in to be sure that occurs as a result of that’s simply setting me up for a lure. Though she’s making me have one.”
Baldoni’s texts, which have been made public as a part of a movement filed by WME which requested, as a part of Vigorous’s sexual harassment lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni, that the courtroom maintain the texts and extra non-public communications sealed, included additional claims in opposition to Vigorous by Baldoni. “She’s rejected all my Story Boards for the intercourse scenes … she’s making an attempt to maintain all of … our garments on for the massive love scene, which is simply ridiculous if you realize the ebook,” he wrote. “The entire thing is only a gigantic cluster f*** and but I’m doing my greatest to remain optimistic, though it’s been very draining on me and time-consuming over this break to be coping with an actress who’s rewriting the author and Director.”
Baldoni’s physique double, Thomas Canestraro, advised the Each day Mail in June 2025 that he skilled “discomfort from everyone” whereas engaged on It Ends With Us.
Vigorous, in the meantime, filed her lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios, in December 2024 on grounds of alleged sexual harassment, retaliation and a smear marketing campaign crafted to destroy her profession.
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Baldoni has denied all allegations made in opposition to him and filed a countersuit the next month that requested $400 million in damages and claimed he was subjected to civil extortion, defamation, false mild invasion of privateness and extra. His countersuit was additionally lodged in opposition to Vigorous’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist Leslie Sloane. A decide dismissed the countersuit in June 2025, with Vigorous’s unique lawsuit set to go to trial in New York Metropolis in March.
Baldoni’s textual content change continued, “I’ve gone via the entire script, I’m giving her 95 p.c of what she desires for peace however that is only a brutal expertise.”
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After a number of responses from Greenberg that mentioned attainable mediation choices, Baldoni wrote again, “I’m doing my greatest to only keep optimistic and provides her as many wins as attainable to only end this factor however it’s gonna be powerful in some unspecified time in the future Warren [Zavala, a WME talent agent] must know that she is destroying her repute.”
The director concluded, “The place we’ll want probably the most assistance is throughout the edit as a result of I’m not going to get all the pieces she desires and I foresee that being an enormous situation.”
5 days after the texts have been exchanged, Vigorous, who additionally served as a producer on It Ends With Us, known as an in-person assembly that was attended by Baldoni, Black, Reynolds, 49, Sony govt Ange Gianetti, fellow producer Alex Saks and Wayfarer Studios CEO, Jamey Heath. By means of their respective authorized filings over the previous yr, Baldoni and Vigorous have each offered differing variations of what the January 4, 2024, assembly entailed.
