Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds want a judge to gag Justin Baldoni's lawyer ... claiming he's making false statements about the case.
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00:00So yesterday we showed you video from the movie that caused the war between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
00:08The ironically titled, It Ends With Us.
00:10It Ends With Us. Well, it ends with that if Blake Lively gets away because she is now asking for a gag order against Justin's lawyer, Brian Friedman,
00:22saying that he's got to stop talking to the media, sending things out to the media, and Brian Friedman and Justin's entire camp is saying that is about as rich as rich can be.
00:36Right. They feel they are rightfully defending themselves against allegations that started with Blake.
00:43It may end with this, but it started with Blake.
00:46Right. That is their take on it.
00:48Now, as for that video, when we showed you some of it yesterday, we told you what Justin's team and his lawyers, what they felt about it.
00:56They felt it was vindicating and that it showed that he was not doing anything out of the ordinary other than shooting a movie scene.
01:04Blake Lively's view of that video is completely different.
01:09This is her response to them leaking that video.
01:13She said Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning.
01:21The video shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning in toward Ms. Lively, attempting to kiss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck,
01:31flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character.
01:39I'm sorry for the shocked look on my face.
01:43I know why you have that shocked look on your face.
01:45Now, with that in mind, watch the video, and then we'll get into the shocked look on his face.
01:50Can you guys frame up Sebastian on you?
01:53Yeah.
01:54We'll just do, like, our lips are right next to each other.
02:00But I think you should start talking.
02:02Do you know what I mean?
02:03Yeah.
02:05Don't give it to them.
02:07They want it. Don't give it to them.
02:09Just keep restraint.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Just do a little bit of restraint.
02:22I'm not getting peered on you today.
02:25I'm probably getting a great fan on you.
02:27That sounds good.
02:29Well, it's not bad. It's my body makeup.
02:35So I thought what it meant to me.
02:40And they win! They won!
02:44Okay, now the shocked look on my face?
02:46Now, the shocked look on your face is, that looks like the scene of a couple falling in love, right?
02:52This is the movie Blake wanted. She wanted a romantic movie.
02:59They are dancing.
03:01Should they be doing the fox trot like this?
03:04That's the movie!
03:06Her point is that all of those things when you are shooting a movie are to be planned.
03:12And that there should be an intimacy coordinator.
03:15And both actors should know exactly what's going to happen.
03:18And what she is alleging is that none of what you just saw there was discussed ahead of time.
03:23Let's say you're right.
03:24It was not planned.
03:25Let's say you're right.
03:26And she didn't know that any of that was going to happen.
03:28So she was taken aback.
03:30Let's say you're right.
03:31She knows before the scene is shot.
03:34Before they say, ready, set, action.
03:37She knows there's no script, right?
03:39But wait a minute.
03:42They improvise on a lot of movies.
03:45And the idea here was, I mean, there's parts of this where they're talking about their spouses and whatnot.
03:50Because they weren't using the audio in the movie.
03:53They're not using the audio.
03:54So the whole thing is improvised.
03:56There's no dialogue that they're using.
03:59So they're just kind of riffing.
04:01And I guess I don't understand how that riffs.
04:05And I guess her point is you shouldn't be riffing intimate scenes like that.
04:08But what was real intimate?
04:10It wasn't real intimate.
04:12Keep in mind, when this was filmed, she already had, you know, or at least on her side, she already had issues with Justin, right?
04:22She had made several claims that he was very creepy, made comments about what's sexy, what's not.
04:28Like, you know, there was already moments that made her feel uncomfortable around this guy.
04:32So when she's doing a scene where there's improvisation, like you guys are mentioning, she feels he's always taking it to a creepy level.
04:41And I will say, look, you can easily see different sides to this scene, right?
04:47At first, when I saw the scene, I was like, okay, I get Justin's side.
04:50But then when you look at it from what Blake's saying, that she's chiming in saying like, oh, why don't we just talk in this scene?
04:56Because it's like, oh, look, what are they talking about?
04:58That could easily be seen as a woman being uncomfortable with a man that she's with and is trying to somehow get disconnected from him.
05:09Did you see Blake?
05:10The way she put her arm around him?
05:11She put her arm around him and touched the back of his neck.
05:14And there's nothing wrong with it.
05:16But that's the movie.
05:18And he would say that, too, is improv, right?
05:23But he's not saying that.
05:24They're doing a movie.
05:26They're talking about their spouses in this thing.
05:29So it's not like he's coming on to her.
05:31They're doing a scene showing that they're into each other and it's supposed to be sexual.
05:38But when you're listening to it, you can see and hear she is uncomfortable.
05:42It's an awkward conversation.
05:44I don't hear that.
05:46You could hear it either way.
05:48What I hear is they don't particularly like each other.
05:51And she's saying that what you're picking up as them not liking each other is her actually being uncomfortable and making a conversation to avoid any more intimacy with him.
06:02That's her side of it.
06:03But that's the scene.
06:04I mean, the scene is the point of the scene.
06:08The scene isn't supposed to be awkwardness between them or uncomfortableness.
06:13The scene is supposed to be that they look like they're falling in love.
06:16Do the twist when you're doing it so you're not next to each other.
06:19But if they're dancing this way and it's supposed to be.
06:22She just busted out the twist.
06:23What if we do this instead, Justin?
06:25Okay, now, what we got to get into is this, that now Blake Lively is pissed and her team is pissed that Justin's lawyer, Brian Friedman, released this video.
06:38So now they want a gag order against Brian Friedman so that he doesn't release anything else.
06:44And we know that his position is, hey, you are the one that ruined Justin's career by making all these allegations, giving us 18 hours to respond before this enormous article comes out in the New York Times.
06:58And he's lost three jobs, hundreds of millions of dollars.
07:02That's what they say.
07:03So they want to release the ghost?
07:06Because Brian Friedman's saying he's not just representing him in court.
07:10He's representing him because he's got a life outside of court.
07:13And you got to show his side.
07:14When we had Brian on the show, he said that they intended to put up a website where they released all of these videos, all of these text messages, because they want to defend Justin's reputation.
07:27Now, Blake's side sees this as Brian trying to manipulate the public and a potential jury.
07:34And at the root of all of this are publicists who, by definition, try to manipulate the public.
07:42I mean, that's crazy because that is the root of this case.
07:47Am I wrong?
07:49Blake would say you're wrong.
07:51Blake's side would say no.
07:52What's at the root of this case is that she was felt sexually harassed while making this film.
07:58And I get it.
07:59And maybe there is other evidence of that.
08:00Right.
08:01But I'm just looking at this.
08:02You just don't see it there.
08:03I just, I don't.
08:04I mean, maybe I'm missing something or being insensitive here.
08:06But that's the point of this shot.
08:08That's the point of this scene.
08:10And I agree.
08:11I just, based on her response, says, yes, that is the point of the scene.
08:15But if that's the point of the scene, why wasn't this all choreographed?
08:20Yes.
08:22As it's supposed to be.
08:23Well, she says.
08:24She says.
08:25Hi.
08:26I'm Lindsay.
08:27I'm from Los Angeles.
08:28And I think that all this back and forth is distracting from the main issue here, which is that Justin harassed Blake.
08:35With this new video that came out, while it doesn't look particularly damning to most who are watching it,
08:41once you are harassed by someone, any interaction you have with them after, you're going to feel uncomfortable in.
08:47Yeah.
08:48I mean, that's true.
08:50It's just, we don't know.
08:52Team Lakeside.
08:53We don't know what's behind all of this.
08:55And what you're saying is, there were already things that happened.
09:00That made her uncomfortable in that scene.
09:02And that's what, there's a dispute over that.