It was one of the biggest bombshells in a lawsuit full of them: that Justin Baldoni sexually harassed Blake Lively while she was filming a dance scene by trailing his lips along her neck and telling her “she smells so good.”
In her civil rights complaint filed last month, the actress, 37, insisted that no one heard the comment because the romantic montage was silent and the microphones were off.
But DailyMail.com can reveal 40-year-old Baldoni’s sound system was on and exclusively obtained explosive video showing the three takes and shattering Lively’s claims.
The tapes show how friendly the two stars were before everything went so wrong. They laugh and joke, even joking about the size of Baldoni’s nose and talking about how they spend time with their spouses.
It includes a full recording of the conversation in question around the seven-minute mark that makes it clear that the comment was in response to Lively talking about the spray tan that came up after he asked if “I’m growing a beard” while they were filming a dance. romantic.
When Lively responds by saying that she’s probably getting a spray tan, he replies “it smells good” before they both laugh and she tells him that the scent is actually coming from her body makeup.
And while the montage shows Baldoni caressing Lively’s neck as part of the scene in which they play lovers, the conversation between them is purely business-like and the couple spends most of it talking about lighting and their other halves.
It was one of the biggest bombshells in a lawsuit full of them: that Justin Baldoni sexually harassed Blake Lively while she was filming a dance scene by trailing his lips along her neck and telling her “she smells so good.”
In the latest filing, Justin alleged that Blake involved one of his famous friends after he told her he wasn’t sure about using some of the changes she had made in the film.
The clip, which is raw footage filmed during the filming of It Ends With Us, comes complete with audio and was passed on to DailyMail.com by the actor’s production company Wayfarer and his lawyer Bryan Freedman, who previously said Baldoni “has nothing to hide”.
The DailyMail.com exclusive images are the latest revelation in a long saga that began with rumors of bad blood behind the scenes of It Ends With Us when it premiered last August.
It then exploded into a legal fight just before Christmas when the glamorous blonde sued Baldoni for sexual harassment.
At the same time, the New York Times published a story based on Lively’s legal filing that accused him of orchestrating a negative publicity campaign against her and put the smell claim front and center.
In turn, Baldoni sued the Times for defamation and, last week, launched a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, accusing her of using her celebrity power to hijack his film and try to torpedo his career.
In her civil rights complaint filed last month, the actress, 37, insisted that no one heard the comment because the romantic montage was silent and the microphones were off. But DailyMail.com can reveal 40-year-old Baldoni’s sound system was on and exclusively obtained explosive video showing the three takes and shattering Lively’s claims.
The DailyMail.com exclusive images are the latest revelation in a long saga that began with rumors of bad blood behind the scenes of It Ends With Us when it premiered last August.
The new clip, which Lively had previously insisted she had no audio for, begins with the pair discussing the scene and the actress telling Baldoni: “I’m out of line.”
Ironically, at one point the couple is heard debating whether it is better to talk or kiss during the montage, with Lively arguing that chatting is “more romantic”, to which Baldoni agrees and later, when wondering if anyone will find out what they are really speaking, he jokes, “They’ll never find out.”
The conversation then turns to their other halves, with Lively saying she and Reynolds talk “all the time,” while Baldoni says he and his wife Emily stare at each other “for 10, literally like we did it for five minutes.” “.
Lively then bursts out laughing and tells him, “I think you’d find that scary.” When Lively goes on to tell him that she can’t stop talking to Reynolds, Baldoni compliments her: “Oh, I think that’s cute.” You guys are really cute.’
Awkwardly, she replies, “I think it’s beyond cute,” to which he quickly agrees, adding, “I think you guys are amazing.”
Baldoni, who directed and starred in It Ends With Us, then says he wants them to film them almost kissing, to which Lively continues, insisting that it’s more romantic to chat and not give the audience the kiss she says she wants. .
She continues talking before saying “heads together”, causing them both to rest their foreheads against each other.
At that point, Lively starts talking nonsense, telling Baldoni, “I feel so intrusive.” “It’s just noses.”
Baldoni then tells her ‘my nose is so big’ to which she bursts out laughing and exclaims: ‘Yes. I was hoping we could address this. I just have to close it, call a month’s insurance and deal with it. It’s a joke.’
The clip then continues into the second take, and Baldoni is heard giving instructions to the crew and discussing the scene with Lively.
Then, just over seven minutes later, comes the critical conversation that appears to be the source of Lively’s accusation, beginning with Baldoni asking “if I’m growing a beard.”
She laughs and says, “I’m probably spray tanning you,” to which he replies, “It smells good,” and they both laugh.
Lively then tells him, ‘Well, it’s not that, it’s the makeup on my body.’
As the extras erupt in cheers, Baldoni yells “cut!” and tells him they have enough for a 17-minute reel.
The final shot, which focuses on her feet, includes audio of Baldoni telling Lively that “I’m going to let you direct this” and then the actress insists that her heels are not clipped “because of the shine.”
DailyMail.com’s explosive new clip comes less than five days since Baldoni’s lawsuit was filed and two weeks after the actress was accused of handing documents to the actor and his team while they evacuated during the Los Angeles wildfires. .
In Baldoni’s lawsuit, Lively is accused of not reading the novel on which the book is based until long after filming began and of orchestrating her own negative publicity campaign with the connivance of her own publicist Leslie Sloane and the New York Times.
During one incident, according to the legal filing, Lively attempted to intimidate Baldoni by pointing out her famous husband and close friend Taylor Swift and then comparing herself to Game of Thrones character Khaleesi and telling him “I have a lot of dragons.”
The actress and her team are also accused of altering text conversations between Baldoni’s publicists to make them appear condemnatory and as if they were plotting a smear campaign against her, which led to both of them being subject to online abuse. when the edited texts were published.
Baldoni’s cross-complaint also revealed that he and his family had been forced to spend the It Ends With Us premiere sitting in a basement because Lively refused to allow him to be in the same room as her.