before Blake Lively Filed a case against him It ends with us costar and director Justin BaldoniAlleging sexual harassment, retaliation and more, the actress opens up about the vital importance of intimacy coordinators.

"I think it's important to have an intimacy coordinator," Lively, 37, says DigitalSpy In an August 2024 interview, three months before his lawsuit against Baldoni was filed in the Southern District of New York.

"You coordinate the stunts, you coordinate the dance, it's choreography," he continued. "So it's going to be able to say, 'Here, here and here this happens in a stunt' and 'here and here this happens in a dance', but 'Now you put your body together, and your face and whatever' and just the action. and cut."

Lively said she believes "choreographing" during intimate scenes is "important for everyone's safety."

On Tuesday, December 31, 2024, Lively officially sued Baldoni, our weekly Allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and lost wages have been previously affirmed. In addition to Baldoni, Lively is also suing publicists Melissa to Natasha And Jennifer AbelAs well as Wayfarer Studios.

Lively also filed a complaint with the California Department of Civil Rights citing similar claims.

"I hope that my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these horrific retaliatory tactics for those who speak out about misconduct and help protect those who may be targeted." our.

In response, Baldoni filed for $250 million case against The New York Times on the same day and to report Lively's sexual harassment allegations. In the lawsuit, Baldoni alleges defamatory publication and false light invasion of privacy, alleging that the newspaper "cherry-picked" communications and omitted context to mislead readers.

The suit also alleges that Lively conducted a "strategic and manipulative" smear campaign against Baldoni, using false "sexual harassment allegations to assert unilateral control over every aspect of the production".

Baldoni also alleged that Lively never met the intimacy coordinator during filming It ends with us.

“In this vicious smear campaign orchestrated entirely by Blake Lively and her team, The New York Times Bowing to the whims and fancies of two powerful Hollywood 'untouchable' elites, using doctored and manipulated texts in disregard of journalistic practice and ethics, and deliberately omitting texts that dispute their chosen PR narrative," Baldoni's lawyer, Brian Friedman, said on Tuesday, 31 December said in a statement to Us.

"In doing so, they pre-determined the outcome of their story, and aided and abetted their own subversive PR smear campaign designed to revive Lively's self-indulgent public image and counter the organic basis of criticism among the online public," Friedman continued. "The irony is rich."