The meeting between Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni, along with other members of the film’s production team, took place on Jan. 4 this year and was intended to address a “hostile work environment” on the set, the legal filing said.
Ms. Lively’s husband, the “Deadpool” star Mr. Reynolds, who did not appear in “It Ends With Us,” joined her in the showdown, according to the legal complaint, which is one step before a trial.
Mr. Baldoni, 40, attended the meeting as co-chairman and co-founder of the company that produced the film, Wayfarer Studios. He also directed the film.
In the lawsuit, Ms. Lively’s lawyers allege that both Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer’s chief executive, Jamie Heath, “behaved in an inappropriate and unwelcome manner toward Ms. Lively and others on the set of It Will End With Us.”
In a filing with the California Department of Civil Rights, the meeting made a list of 30 demands related to the couple’s alleged misconduct to ensure they can continue production of the film.
Among them, Ms Lively, 37, asked that no further mention of Mr Baldoni’s and Mr Heath’s previous “pornographic addiction” to Ms Lively or other crew members, no further descriptions of their genitalia to Ms Lively and “no more addition of sexual scenes, oral sex or climax to BL’s (Blake Lively) camera outside of the approved script BL, when signing the project,” says the complaint.
Ms Lively also demanded that Mr Baldoni stop saying he could speak to her dead father.
