Justin Baldoni has been dropped as a shopper by WME.
In response to Deadline, the choice was made by WME management on Saturday, December 21, for the expertise company to half methods with Baldoni, partly as a result of grievance of sexual harassment filed towards the actor/director by his It Ends With Us costar Blake Full of life on Friday, December 20.
Full of life, for her half, continues to be represented by WME.
On Friday, Full of life filed a sexual harassment lawsuit towards Baldoni, whereby she alleged his habits on the set of It Ends With Us — on which he starred, directed and produced — brought on her “extreme emotional misery.” (Full of life govt produced the movie as properly, and starred as protagonist Lily Bloom.)
The lawsuit claims {that a} assembly was held throughout the movie’s manufacturing in January 2024 to handle Full of life’s claims of the “hostile work surroundings” on set. The assembly was attended by quite a few individuals who labored on the movie, together with Baldoni and Full of life’s husband, Ryan Reynolds.
As acknowledged within the grievance, Full of life’s calls for for the assembly included “no extra displaying nude movies or photographs of girls to Blake, no extra point out of Baldoni’s alleged earlier ‘pornography dependancy,’ no extra discussions about sexual conquests in entrance of Blake and others, no additional mentions of forged and crew’s genitalia, no extra inquiries about Blake’s weight, and no additional point out of Blake’s useless father.”
In an announcement to Us Weekly, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman addressed Full of life’s “utterly false, outrageous and deliberately salacious” allegations, claiming that the actress had filed the lawsuit to “repair her unfavourable repute” and “rehash a story” relating to the manufacturing of the movie.
Full of life, alternatively, has accused Baldoni’s staff of deliberately dragging her title by way of the mud by way of a calculated “astroturfing” marketing campaign.
In his assertion to Us, Freedman additional alleged that Full of life made “a number of calls for and threats” whereas filming It Ends With Us, similar to “threatening to not present as much as set, threatening to not promote the movie, in the end resulting in its demise throughout launch, if her calls for weren’t met.”
In an announcement to The New York Occasions in December, Full of life stated, “I hope that my authorized motion helps pull again the curtain on these sinister retaliatory techniques to hurt individuals who converse up about misconduct and helps shield others who could also be focused.” The actress additionally denied spreading unfavourable details about Baldoni.
Us has reached out to reps for each Full of life and Baldoni for remark.