Blake Lively branded a 'f***ing terrorist' as It Ends With Us star claims Justin Baldoni admitted he didn't listen to women who said no to his advances
A senior producer on It Ends With Us called Blake Lively a 'f***ing terrorist' over her 17-point list of demands to return to the set of the movie.
Andrea Giannetti used the harsh description of the actress in court documents seen by the Daily Mail after she unveiled her requirements in November 2023 - potentially sabotaging the entire project.
Giannetti said that the production of the film was a 's*** show' and that Lively thought that the film's director Justin Baldoni, who also co-starred, was 'unprepared, indecisive and inexperienced,' according to the court papers.
According to Lively, Baldoni was 'too sensitive' and took criticism to heart too easily.
Giannetti made her comments in a deposition released ahead of a major court hearing in New York on Thursday where Baldoni is seeking to have Lively's claims of sexual harassment and defamation dismissed.
The case is due to go to trial in May, and the judge has already dismissed Baldoni's $400million defamation lawsuit he filed against Lively.
Blake Lively was called a 'f***ing terrorist' by an It Ends With Us senior film producer over her 17-point list of demands to return to the set of the movie
Film producer Andrea Giannetti said Blake Lively believed Justin Baldoni - who is due to go to trial in May over her claims of sexual harassment and defamation - was 'unprepared, indecisive and inexperienced' on set
The slew of new documents gives fresh insight into what occurred on the set of It Ends With Us, the movie based on the Colleen Hover novel of the same name which became an unexpected hit because of the controversy surrounding the cast.
The 17-point list of demands came after Lively claims she was harassed on set by Baldoni's inappropriate comments to her and other actresses.
He allegedly told her while in a car that he had not always asked for consent in sexual relationships – and that he had not always listened if a partner said no.
'Prior to sharing this disturbing admission, Baldoni grabbed my female assistant’s arm long and slow and said this "stays in the car",' she claimed.
Among Lively's demands was that there would be 'no spontaneous improvising of any scenes involving physical touching, simulated sex, or nudity'.
Baldoni and Jamey Heath, one of the producers, have said they signed the list under duress for fear they would lose the movie.
During the deposition, Giannetti, Executive Vice President Production at Columbia Pictures, was asked if she ever told Heath that Lively was a 'f***ing terrorist' over her list of demands.
She replied: 'Yes'.
The judge overseeing the upcoming case has already dismissed Baldon's $400million defamation lawsuit he filed against Lively
Lively's 17-point list of demands followed claims that Baldoni harassed her on set and made inappropriate comments to her and other actresses
Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath have said they signed Lively's 17-point list under duress, fearing they would lose the movie
Lively says she felt extremely uncomfortable with the degree to which she was exposed during the movie's birth scene. She said it felt 'violative and humiliating'.
She said had just a ‘small, thin and flat piece of black fabric' to cover her genitalia during the shoot, which lasted several hours.
In the dance scene when she claims Baldoni improvised kissing, Lively said she felt ‘trapped’ and tried to ‘create physical distance’ from him.
'I attempted to evade his touch while staying visibly in character and attempting to maintain my performance leaning and spinning away from him,' she said.
She said she suggested that the characters talk rather than kiss or nuzzle while also trying not to disrupt or further draw out the scene so she could get it over with.
'I tried to use levity and choreography in character to keep Baldoni at bay and to avoid his unwanted touching. In a separate scene, Baldoni covertly bit and sucked my lip without consent.
Giannetti said that Lively told her that, in her view, Baldoni 'fell into the category of unprepared, indecisive, and inexperienced'.
In addition, she said he was 'too sensitive'.
She said: 'She (Lively) would have a criticism, and he wouldn't take it well. He'd be hurt by it, and then she felt like she had to, like, go in and buck him up'.
The documents filed at the federal court in New York include a withering assessment by Isabela Ferrer, the actress who played a young version of Lively's character, Lily Bloom.
After filming a scene when her character lost her virginity with Alex Neustaedter, who played a young Atlas Corrigan, Ferrer said that Baldoni made an 'inappropriate' comment.
Baldoni allegedly said: 'I know I'm not supposed to say this but that was hot.'
Ferrer, 25, said in a deposition that Neustaedter, 27, told her that early in the production Baldoni pulled him aside and said: 'I really want you to get to know Isabela well.'
Documents filed in federal court in New York include a scathing assessment by Isabela Ferrer, who played a young version of Lively's character, Lily Bloom
After filming a scene in which her character lost her virginity to Alex Neustaedter, who played a young Atlas Corrigan, Ferrer said Baldoni allegedly made an 'inappropriate' comment, telling her the scene was 'hot'
After that he 'winked at him', Ferrer said.
Lively also said she had concerns over the scene in which Ferrer lost her virginity, supposedly at 15 or 16 years old – even though both she and Neustaedter wsere in their 20s at the time.
During another scene Baldoni tried to get Ferrer to lick cookie dough off a spoon, something she thought was not right as it had a 'sexual undertone' and the character was just 16 at the time.
'The graphic on-screen representation of a minor being penetrated, especially in the context of what was to be an innocent relationship, felt exploitive and dangerous in any circumstance, but given the nature of the book and film, it was doubling alarming
Ferrer called Baldoni the 'best con artist I have ever witnessed' because he was adept at turning the narrative to make him look like a victim.
She said that she hopes he feels 'morally responsible' for all the 'bullying' the female cast members felt while promoting the movie.
Jenny Slate, who played Lively's friend Allysa in the movie, described how Baldoni called her 'hot' and 'sexy' during yet another awkward moment on set.
In a deposition she said: 'He said something like: 'I can say this because my wife is here, but you look sexy in what you're wearing'.
Slate gave a dim assessment of Baldoni and said she didn't understand how he had become a high profile feminist who hosted a TED talk and wrote books about being a better man.
Slate says in the deposition: 'I really don't get how he did a TED Talk. He is worse than most of the bros I've encountered, not because he's predatory but because of his general fragility and misogyny, like not seeming to be aware of any of the obvious no-no'.
Jenny Slate, who played Lively's friend Allysa, described another awkward moment on set in which Baldoni allegedly called her 'hot' and 'sexy'
The documents include text messages Slate sent to her agent in which she said: 'I'm not kidding when I tell you that Justin and Jamey me freak me out. Like they tell really weird lies and Justin is astoundingly wrongheaded.'
In a text at 3.28am one morning, Lively told Slate: 'What you said though is very self-aware. Neither of us are people who can't take a joke or who can't work or understand blue. We're not that fragile
'You just can't record people without asking. You can't speak to people sexually while not in character or while talking about the character, and if you overstep, you move on. It's the weirdness after that makes it feel bad. Like if we speak up, the vibes on set get funky and the work suffers'.
At one point Slate was asked if Lively ever told her 'that any of the defendants questioned her about her sexual fantasies or sexual performance?'
But after an objection the line of questioning was shut down.
