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Baldoni’s team has filed a response to Reynold’s motion to be dismissed from his $400 million lawsuit arguing why the\u00a0Deadpool\u00a0<\/em>actor shouldn’t be.<\/strong><\/p>\n The\u00a0It Ends With Us\u00a0<\/em>director filed a defamation and extortion counter-lawsuit in response to co-star\u00a0Blake Lively<\/a>\u00a0suing him in December\u00a0alleging sexual harassment and an alleged smear campaign against her<\/a>\u00a0– accusations Baldoni has denied.<\/p>\n In March,\u00a0Reynolds<\/a>\u00a0filed a motion to be dismissed from Baldoni’s\u00a0$400<\/a>\u00a0million counterlawsuit, his lawyers arguing the ‘entirety’ of Baldoni’s case ‘appears to be based on Reynolds allegedly privately calling Mr. Baldoni a \u2018predator” but arguing the ‘problem’ is ‘that is not defamation unless they can show that Mr. Reynolds did not believe that statement to be true’ – noting Reynolds ‘genuinely believes Mr. Baldoni is a predator’.<\/p>\n However, on April 1, Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios parties’ legal team filed a response for why Judge Lewis J. Liman shouldn’t allowed Reynolds to be dismissed from the suit.<\/p>\n Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, previously slammed Reynold’s motion to dismiss, branding him a ‘key player’ in the ‘smear campaign against Justin and the Wayfarer team since day one’.<\/p>\n And in Baldoni’s team’s legal filing in response, they’ve slammed Reynolds saying he ‘pretends that the Wayfarer Parties\u2019 First Amended Complaint (the ‘FAC’) fails to set forth any basis for his liability and that he merely acted as a supportive spouse’ is ‘not so’ as\u00a0quoted<\/a>\u00a0by People.<\/p>\nBaldoni’s team’s response<\/strong><\/h2>\n