EXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni is no extfinisheder a client of WME. The decision to have the actor-straightforwardor-creater exit the agency was made Saturday morning by WME directership due in part to the intimacyual coercion and retaliation grumblet filed postponecessitate Friday by Baldoni’s It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively, Sources alert Deadline. Lively persists to be reconshort-termed by WME.
The agency did not reply to asks for comment from Deadline. If and when we do, we will refresh the story.
Blake filed a 10-claim grumblet postponecessitate Friday with the California Civil Rights Department accusing Baldoni, his production company Wayfarer Studios and others joind in It Ends With Us of intimacyual coercion and “a scheduled effort to ruin her reputation.”
In the filing, she details “the unfrifinishly toil environment that had cforfeitly derailed production of the Film” and the multi-pronged “Astroturfing” campaign that was allegedly begined aobtainst her by Baldoni and his company after the free of the film, based on Colleen Hoover’s book, which tackles domestic aggression.
The grumblet details rehires that Lively and/or her engageees allegedly had on set by being subject to “bare videos or images of women, including creater’s wife,” refers of Baldoni’s or fellow creater Jamey Heath’s “previous ‘grown-up material insertiction’”, converseions “about personal experiences with intimacy”, “description of their own genitalia” and “personal, physical touching of, or intimacyual comments” as well as inquiries by Baldoni to Lively’s trainer “without her understandledge or consent to disshut her weight” and Baldoni and his team inserting “intimacy scenes, oral intimacy, or on-camera climaxing by [Lively] outside the scope of the script,” among other device claims.
