Blake Lively Called Proximity Coordinators ‘Slightly’ Ahead of Lawsuit

Before Blake Lively file a lawsuit against her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldonialleging sexual harassment, revenge and more, the actress opened up about the essential importance of intimacy coordinators.

“I think it’s really important to have an intimacy coordinator,” Lively, 37, told DigitalSpy in an August 2024 interview, published three months before she filed her lawsuit against Baldoni with the Southern District of New York.

“You coordinate stunts, you coordinate dancing, it’s choreography,” he continued. “So I can say, ‘This is what happens here, here and here in a stunt,’ and ‘This is what happens here and here in a dance,’ but like ‘Now you put your bodies together, and your mouths and whatever’ and just act and cut.”

Lively went on to say that she believes “being choreographed” during intimate scenes is “vital to everyone’s safety.”

Baldoni officially sued lively on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, Us Weekly previously confirmed, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and loss of wages. In addition to Baldoni, Lively is suing publishers Melissa to Natasha a Jennifer Abelas well as Wayfarer Studios.

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

“I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about wrongdoing and help protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement. i Us.

In response, Baldoni filed for $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times on the same day and for his reporting on Lively’s sexual harassment allegations. In the suit, Baldoni accuses the publication of libel and a false light invasion of privacy, claiming that the newspaper “picked” communications and omitted context in order to mislead readers.

The lawsuit also alleges that Lively pursued 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 claims that Lively did not meet with an intimacy coordinator while filming It Ends With Us.

“In this vicious smear campaign fully orchestrated by Blake Lively and her team, the New York Times woven into the wishes and whims of two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites, disregarding journalistic practices and ethics that once befitted the revered publication by using manipulated and manipulated texts and deliberately omitting texts that’ n disagree with the public relations narrative they chose,” Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, said in a statement to Us on Tuesday, December 31.

“In doing so, they pre-determined the outcome of their story, and aided and abetted their own destructive PR smear campaign designed to revive Lively’s self-indulgent sweeping public image and counter the organic basis of public criticism of -line,” Freedman continued. “The irony is rich.”