{"id":18704,"date":"2025-01-16T19:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2025-01-16T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:24:21","slug":"justin-baldoni-claims-ryan-reynolds-and-taylor-swift-pressured-him-to-accept-blake-livelys-it-ends-with-us-rewrite-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18704","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni Claims Ryan Reynolds and Taylor Swift Pressured Him to Accept Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us Rewrite: Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blake Lively allegedly referred to husband Ryan Reynolds and friend Taylor Swift as her “Dance Moms level stage moms”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Justin Baldoni<\/a>\u00a0claims\u00a0Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0was involved in backing\u00a0Blake Lively<\/a>‘s vision for\u00a0It Ends With Us<\/em>\u00a0when he resisted some rewrites.<\/p>\n

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Baldoni, who directed and stars in the romantic drama,\u00a0filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds<\/a>\u00a0and their publicist on Thursday, Jan. 16, less than a month after Lively filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign.<\/p>\n

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Among the claims made in his 179-page complaint, Baldoni, 40, alleges that Swift, 35, and Reynolds, 48, pressured him into accepting one of Lively’s rewrites for the film. Christy Hall is credited as the screenwriter who adapted Colleen Hoover’s blockbuster novel.<\/p>\n

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In the pre-production phase, Lively allegedly\u00a0asked to “take a pass” on the film’s rooftop scene<\/a>, where her character Lily Bloom meets Baldoni’s Ryle Kincaid for the first time. Baldoni was “reluctant” to let her “rewrite this key scene,” per the complaint, “but “agreed to take a look at what she put together.”<\/p>\n

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Baldoni claims her version was “dramatically” different from how it was originally written, and after his “exceedingly mild resistance,” Lively “went silent for multiple days” and later said in an alleged text message that his reaction to her rewrite “didn\u2019t feel great for me” \u2014 or to Reynolds and what Baldoni characterizes as “another megacelebrity friend.”<\/p>\n

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A text message included in the filing reveals that “influential and wealthy” celebrity friend to be Swift.<\/p>\n

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on Aug. 6, 2024.<\/span>Cindy Ord\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baldoni claimed he was “summoned” to an earlier meeting with Reynolds at their New York City penthouse where the pop superstar arrived and “began praising Lively\u2019s script. Baldoni understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively\u2019s direction for the script.”<\/p>\n

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Per the complaint, when Baldoni later texted Lively that he didn’t need “Reynolds and her megacelebrity friend to pressure him,” Lively responded by comparing herself to the\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0character Khaleesi and that Reynolds and Swift are her two “dragons.”<\/p>\n

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Another alleged text from Lively included in the filing shows the actress referring to Reynolds, with whom she shares four kids and married in 2012, and Swift as her “Dance Moms<\/em>\u00a0level stage moms.”<\/p>\n