EXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni is not a shopper of WME. The choice to have the actor-director-producer go away the company was made Saturday morning by WME management due partly to the sexual harassment and retaliation criticism filed late Friday by Baldoni’s It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively, Sources inform Deadline. Energetic continues to be represented by WME.
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Blake filed a 10-claim complaint late Friday with the California Civil Rights Division accusing Baldoni, his manufacturing firm Wayfarer Studios and others concerned in It Ends With Us of sexual harassment and “a coordinated effort to destroy her fame.”
Within the submitting, she particulars “the hostile work surroundings that had almost derailed manufacturing of the Movie” and the multi-pronged “Astroturfing” marketing campaign that was allegedly launched towards her by Baldoni and his firm after the discharge of the movie, based mostly on Colleen Hoover’s ebook, which tackles home violence.
The criticism particulars points that Energetic and/or her staff allegedly had on set by being topic to “nude movies or photos of ladies, together with producer’s spouse,” mentions of Baldoni’s or fellow producer Jamey Heath’s “earlier ‘pornography dependancy’”, discussions “about private experiences with intercourse”, “description of their very own genitalia” and “private, bodily touching of, or sexual feedback” in addition to inquiries by Baldoni to Energetic’s coach “with out her data or consent to reveal her weight” and Baldoni and his crew including “intercourse scenes, oral intercourse, or on-camera climaxing by [Lively] outdoors the scope of the script,” amongst different explosive claims.
