A significant aspect of the Hollywood feud involving Blake Lively and her fellow actor in It Ends With Us, Justin Baldoni, revolves around the actress’s attempt to assert authority over the film.
Fans have recently noted a possible new development in this drama, as they have noticed parallels between a contentious scene in which Blake claims she was subjected to sexual harassment by Baldoni and her very first movie alongside her spouse Ryan Reynolds – Green Lantern.
Lively and Baldoni are scheduled to have a legal showdown next year, as the director has retaliated with counter-accusations of slander and efforts to ruin his name and livelihood.
Last month the director, 41, also released the unedited footage of the dance scene between himself and Blake as after she accused him of dragging his lips down her neck and telling her ‘it smells so good’.
In her civil rights complaint, the actress, 37, insisted nobody overheard the comment because the romantic montage was silent and the microphones were switched off.
However DailyMail.com revealed that Justin’s sound equipment was switched on – and while Justin can be heard saying her its her fake tan that ‘smells good’ as the pair joke, Blake’s legal team are insisting ‘the video itself is damning.’
Fans have gone wild for new conspiracy theory over It Ends With Us dance scene – as they discover it’s VERY similar to scene from Blake’s first movie with husband Ryan Reynolds
Last month the director released the unedited footage of the dance scene between himself and Blake as after she accused him of dragging his lips down her neck and telling her ‘it smells so good’
The now Hollywood couple famously worked together on Green Lantern back in 2010, while he was still married to Scarlett Johansson and she was dating Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley.
Blake and Ryan tied the knot just two years later, following Ryan’s divorce in the December of 2010.
Playing Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris, about 30 minutes into the film there is a romantic dance scene between the couple, with one fan highlighting it is very reminiscent of her recent scene with Justin.
Taking to Twitter the eagle-eyed fan penned: ‘I noticed that about 30 mins into the film, there’s a scene where Lively and Reynolds characters dance in a bar in an almost identical way to the slow dance scene from IEWU. The only difference is the characters were talking.’
Posing their conspiracy they questioned: ‘Could it be possible that Lively was trying to recreate the scene to be similar to the scene she did with her husband when she fell in love with him?
The now Hollywood couple famously worked together on Green Lantern back in 2010 and about 30 minutes into the film there is a romantic dance scene between the couple
‘Did she rewrite the scene to mirror the details of the dance? Is this what she means when she says her husband is “all over this movie”?
‘Did Reynolds see this and get jealous because it hit a nerve?’
Blake reportedly riled the producers with demands to take creative control of It Ends With Us after she previously confessed ‘my husband is all over this movie’.
She previously told E! News: ‘The iconic rooftop scene, my husband actually wrote it. Nobody knows that, but you now.’
She added: ‘We help each other, we work together so much… he works on everything I do, I work on everything he does, so his wins, his celebrations are mine and mine are his.’
The similarities between the scenes have led fans to wonder whether perhaps the dance scene could have been Blake’s idea, or whether she mimicked her acting on the previous scene with her husband.
One fan highlighted the scene with Ryan is very reminiscent of her recent scene with Justin as the pair slow dance
Posing their conspiracy they questioned: ‘Could it be possible that Lively was trying to recreate the scene to be similar to the scene she did with her husband when she fell in love with him?’
Taking to the comments, fans agreed as they penned: ‘Great observation!! Even down to the twirl!’; ‘Well spotted’
Her team claims the 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, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character’
Taking to the comments, fans agreed as they penned: ‘Great observation!! Even down to the twirl!’; ‘Well spotted’.
Another speculated: ‘Just another layer of weirdness in an already strange situation. It’s weird that a Blake would choose a movie about abuse that blows up in everyone’s face—especially when it mirrors how she and her husband first met on set.’
Last month Blake broke her silence on the recent unedited footage Justin released from their film of the pair dancing.
The actress claims the explosive video proves that she was uncomfortable during the scene.
Her team claims the 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, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character.’
‘Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint.’
Her lawyer also added that none of the intimacy shown in the video from the film — which Baldoni directed and starred in alongside Lively — was choreographed.
‘Every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance, and no intimacy coordinator present.’
‘Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively’s co-star, but the director, the head of studio and Ms. Lively’s boss.’
Lively’s legal team claims that her ‘leaning away’ from Baldoni during the scene was not acting, and that the clips shows her ‘repeatedly asking for the characters to just talk.’
When Blake and Ryan met the latter was married to Scarlett Johansson (pictured left in June 2010), while Blake was dating Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley (pictured right in May 2008)
Blake reportedly riled the producers with demands to take creative control of It Ends With Us after she previously confessed ‘my husband it all over this movie’
‘Any woman who has been inappropriately touched in the workplace will recognize Ms. Lively’s discomfort.’
‘They will recognize her attempts at levity to try to deflect the unwanted touching. No woman should have to take defensive measures to avoid being touched by their employer without their consent.’
Her team claims that releasing the video to the media ‘is another example of an unethical attempt to manipulate the public’ and ‘a continuation of their harassment and retaliatory campaign.’
‘We are continuing our efforts to require Mr. Baldoni and his associates to answer in court, under oath, rather than through manufactured media stunts,’ her lawyer stated.
It was one of the biggest bombshells in a lawsuit packed full of them – that Justin sexually harassed Blake while filming a dance scene by dragging his lips down her neck and telling her ‘it smells so good’.
But DailyMail.com has exclusively obtained an explosive video where Justin’s sound equipment was switched on, showing all three takes.
The tapes show how friendly the two stars were before it all went so wrong. They laugh and joke around – even joshing about the size of Justin’s nose and talk about how they spend their time with their spouses.
They include a complete record of the conversation in question at around the seven-minute mark that makes clear the comment about her smelling so good was in response to Blake talking about her spray tan as they film a romantic dance.
Justin tells Blake he’s probably getting his beard on her and she responds by saying she’s probably getting spray tan on him. Then he quips back ‘it smells good’ before both laugh and she tells him the scent actually comes from her body makeup.
And while the montage does indeed show Justin nuzzling Blake’s neck as part of the scene in which they play lovers, the conversation between them is all business with the pair spending most of it talking about lighting and their other halves.
Last month Blake broke her silence on the recent unedited footage Justin released from their film of the pair dancing and claimed the footage proves she was uncomfortable
DailyMail.com’s exclusive footage is the latest revelation in a lengthy saga that began with rumors of rancor behind the scenes of It Ends With Us when it was released last August.
It then exploded into a legal fight just before Christmas when the glamorous blonde sued Justin for sexual harassment.
At the same time, the New York Times released a story based on Blake’s legal filing that accused him of orchestrating a negative publicity campaign against her and put the smell claim front and centre.
In turn, Justin sued the Times for defamation and launched a $400m lawsuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds that accused her of using her celebrity power to hijack his film and attempt to torpedo his career.
