Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t a birthing scene require little clothing on the bottom half? I’m not taking his side here… just curious bc if BL was realistically simulating birth, she would need to appear nude from the waist down. What does an actress typically wear if there’s a birthing scene?

Have you never seen a birth seen in a movie or television show before? How often are you seeing the actor's naked body below the waist in these scenes? It's extremely rare. Here's what you see: the actor's chest (usually covered all or in part by a hospital gown), her head, sometimes her arms, sometimes her knees.

So basically you could film a birth scene with the actress wearing a hospital gown over bike shorts. And in fact, that is how most birth scenes are filmed.

How many mainstream films have you seen where the movie shows the actor's naked hips, stomach, butt, and upper legs? I can't think of one. In Knocked Up, they just show Katherine Heigl's knees and shoulders and then there is a (simulated) shot of the baby's head crowning. It is shown for shock and laughs specifically because it is so rare for birth scenes to show anything remotely graphic. It's not something most audiences are eager to see.

Really curious what the scene looked like as filmed, could not have been very scandalous given the movie’s rating.

This was why Lively asked her husband to do a cut of the film -- specifically because she felt lines were crossed during filming of intimate scenes, including the nudity she felt forced to do in the birth scene. Reynold's version was the one released. He obviously cut out anything that would be considered "scandalous" regarding the birth scene and in particular the nudity his wife felt coerced into doing in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:The IC has a lot to ask for as well. Why didn't they step in?

Regarding the birth scene, the IC could not step in because she was not there.

The birth scene was not scripted to be a scene with nudity. So the IC didn't choreograph that scene and was not asked to come to set that day. It would be standard to have the IC on set for any scene where an actor was asked to do full OR partial nudity.

Baldoni failed to inform Lively OR the intimacy coordinator that the birth scene would be nude in advance. Even though according to him, it is "normal" for women to be naked during birth and his own wife apparently "ripped off" her clothes during childbirth. So he knew he wanted that scene to be nude and intimate, yet he failed to tell the actor who would be doing that nudity/intimacy, and he failed to engage the intimacy coordinator. Huge fail on his part.

Combined with indications that Baldoni and Wayfarer were excited about the prospect of Lively being nude on set for that scene, with a producer flying in just to watch that specific scene being filmed. That seems odd because a birth scene is not a very interesting one to watch being filmed. It's highly technical with minimal dialogue. Baldoni also hired a friend to play the doctor in the scene. Again this is weird because it's a nothing role -- few lines and actually a technical, stressful shoot because of the blocking involved. There are lots of small roles that an actor friend would usually rather have -- waiter, bartender, nurse, etc. Filming a birth scene where you are going to have to repeat the same lines and movements over and over again in a tight set as they get a bunch of angles of the lead actors faces (not yours) would be kind of a pain.

Unless you were excited about the prospect of being in close proximity to a very famous actress who you've been assured will be mostly nude during the shoot.

The whole thing looks extremely unprofessional. But if Lively had just refused or walked off the set, the news would be "Blake Lively throws tantrum, delays production costing studio thousands." A no-win for her.

I do not like Blake Lively as an actor and find her public persona very grating. And I am 100% on her side here. This was gross and should not have happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The IC has a lot to ask for as well. Why didn't they step in?

Regarding the birth scene, the IC could not step in because she was not there.

The birth scene was not scripted to be a scene with nudity. So the IC didn't choreograph that scene and was not asked to come to set that day. It would be standard to have the IC on set for any scene where an actor was asked to do full OR partial nudity.

Baldoni failed to inform Lively OR the intimacy coordinator that the birth scene would be nude in advance. Even though according to him, it is "normal" for women to be naked during birth and his own wife apparently "ripped off" her clothes during childbirth. So he knew he wanted that scene to be nude and intimate, yet he failed to tell the actor who would be doing that nudity/intimacy, and he failed to engage the intimacy coordinator. Huge fail on his part.

Combined with indications that Baldoni and Wayfarer were excited about the prospect of Lively being nude on set for that scene, with a producer flying in just to watch that specific scene being filmed. That seems odd because a birth scene is not a very interesting one to watch being filmed. It's highly technical with minimal dialogue. Baldoni also hired a friend to play the doctor in the scene. Again this is weird because it's a nothing role -- few lines and actually a technical, stressful shoot because of the blocking involved. There are lots of small roles that an actor friend would usually rather have -- waiter, bartender, nurse, etc. Filming a birth scene where you are going to have to repeat the same lines and movements over and over again in a tight set as they get a bunch of angles of the lead actors faces (not yours) would be kind of a pain.

Unless you were excited about the prospect of being in close proximity to a very famous actress who you've been assured will be mostly nude during the shoot.

The whole thing looks extremely unprofessional. But if Lively had just refused or walked off the set, the news would be "Blake Lively throws tantrum, delays production costing studio thousands." A no-win for her.

I do not like Blake Lively as an actor and find her public persona very grating. And I am 100% on her side here. This was gross and should not have happened.

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Anonymous wrote:" On the day of shooting the scene in which Ms. Lively's character gives birth, Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath suddenly pressured Ms. Lively to simulate full nudity, despite no mention of nudity
for this scene in the script, her contract, or in previous creative discussions. Mr. Baldoni insisted to Ms.
Lively that women give birth naked, and that his wife had “ripped her clothes off” during labor. He
claimed it was “not normal” for women to remain in their hospital gowns while giving birth. Ms. Lively
disagreed, but felt forced into a compromise that she would be naked from below the chest down"

"To add insult to injury, Mr. Heath approached Ms. Lively and her assistant on set and started playing a video of a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart. Ms. Lively thought he was showing her pornography and stopped him. Mr. Heath explained that the video was his wife giving birth. Ms. Lively was alarmed and asked Mr. Heath if his wife knew he was sharing the video, to which he replied "She isn't weird about this stuff,” as if Ms. Lively was weird for not welcoming it. Ms. Lively and her assistant excused themselves, stunned that Mr. Heath had shown them a nude video."

This is all extremely messed up. Why are people defending these two? The mental gymnastics to make this seem ok is exhausting.

Because they are filmmakers making a movie where the pivotal scene is childbirth. It literally gives the name of the movie. It’s completely normal that they would discuss nudity in the CHILDBIRTH scene with the actress knowingly being paid to act out a scene of CHILDBIRTH.

All caps doesn't make your point any more compelling. The childbirth scene is pivotal for emotional reasons, and birth scenes are regularly filmed from the chest up and focus on the actors' faces and interactions, because frankly making a birth scene more graphic than that is going to take most viewers out of the scene emotionally. Also many, many women give birth wearing a hospital gown and most birth scenes are filmed with the actress mostly clothed. So no, it was actually not at all normal for the director to assume that the scene would be filmed nude or that Lively would know they expected her to be nude. It's not what is typical for the industry.

And Baldoni and his team either knew that or were very stupid because, as Lively points out, if they'd planned for the birth scene to be done nude all along, they would have scripted it as a nude scene, obtained a nudity rider, and enlisted the intimacy coordinator in choreographing the scene and had her on set that day. They didn't do any of those things. So either they also didn't expect the scene to be nude and just decided on the fly that day that it would be, or they are just extremely bad at their jobs and failed to properly script, storyboard, and follow normal procedure for something that was always planned to be a nude scene.

Either way, they screwed up.

The scene was filmed with her dressed, no? So they suggested something she didn’t want to do, and after she said no, they filmed it the way she wanted it filmed.

No. Read the complaint. She was nude from the waist down with only a small strip of nude fabric covering her genitals, and when she repeatedly asked for something to cover herself with between takes, she was ignored even after multiple requests. It was not even remotely how she wanted it to be filmed.

They also sprang the nudity request on her on the day of filming instead of setting it up in advance. Extremely unprofessional. You don't ask an actor to do a scene nude the day it's shot -- there's intense pressure because if you can't reach a compromise, the scene can be delayed and can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the cost of the location, other actors and personnel, as well as the costs associated with booking all of that again for a future date.

The Complaint quite clearly says they compromised on this disagreement by covering the upper half of her body.

Is that really a compromise if that was how the scene was initially meant to play out, and they were asking her for more?

If that was how it was suppose to be and they didn’t change it, I would say she got her way. But she calls it a compromise.

Oh my god I feel like I'm conversing with the village idiot. I'll try to use small words and simple sentences.

The scene was scripted with no nudity. Lively wanted to do the scene with clothes on -- a hospital gown and some kind of shorts on the bottom.

Baldoni decided he wanted Blake to simulate full nudity for the scene. Simulating full nudity means no clothes at all, but with strips of fabric glued to her genitals. That's how most nude scenes are filmed.

The compromised on partial nudity. That means Blake wore a hospital gown on top but was nude from the waist down, with just a strip of nude fabric taped to her genitals.

Do you see how the compromise was different from what both Lively and Baldoni wanted? Do you see how it was different from how the scene was scripted?

If she had a gown on but pushed up, seems like it would have been easy to cover up between takes, just saying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The IC has a lot to ask for as well. Why didn't they step in?

Regarding the birth scene, the IC could not step in because she was not there.

The birth scene was not scripted to be a scene with nudity. So the IC didn't choreograph that scene and was not asked to come to set that day. It would be standard to have the IC on set for any scene where an actor was asked to do full OR partial nudity.

Baldoni failed to inform Lively OR the intimacy coordinator that the birth scene would be nude in advance. Even though according to him, it is "normal" for women to be naked during birth and his own wife apparently "ripped off" her clothes during childbirth. So he knew he wanted that scene to be nude and intimate, yet he failed to tell the actor who would be doing that nudity/intimacy, and he failed to engage the intimacy coordinator. Huge fail on his part.

Combined with indications that Baldoni and Wayfarer were excited about the prospect of Lively being nude on set for that scene, with a producer flying in just to watch that specific scene being filmed. That seems odd because a birth scene is not a very interesting one to watch being filmed. It's highly technical with minimal dialogue. Baldoni also hired a friend to play the doctor in the scene. Again this is weird because it's a nothing role -- few lines and actually a technical, stressful shoot because of the blocking involved. There are lots of small roles that an actor friend would usually rather have -- waiter, bartender, nurse, etc. Filming a birth scene where you are going to have to repeat the same lines and movements over and over again in a tight set as they get a bunch of angles of the lead actors faces (not yours) would be kind of a pain.

Unless you were excited about the prospect of being in close proximity to a very famous actress who you've been assured will be mostly nude during the shoot.

The whole thing looks extremely unprofessional. But if Lively had just refused or walked off the set, the news would be "Blake Lively throws tantrum, delays production costing studio thousands." A no-win for her.

I do not like Blake Lively as an actor and find her public persona very grating. And I am 100% on her side here. This was gross and should not have happened.

I will wait to see the counterclaim given how she sliced and diced texts in her complaint to totally change the meaning.

[Anonymous]

The birth scene is a centerpiece of the film, not just a technical scene.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The IC has a lot to ask for as well. Why didn't they step in?

Regarding the birth scene, the IC could not step in because she was not there.

The birth scene was not scripted to be a scene with nudity. So the IC didn't choreograph that scene and was not asked to come to set that day. It would be standard to have the IC on set for any scene where an actor was asked to do full OR partial nudity.

Baldoni failed to inform Lively OR the intimacy coordinator that the birth scene would be nude in advance. Even though according to him, it is "normal" for women to be naked during birth and his own wife apparently "ripped off" her clothes during childbirth. So he knew he wanted that scene to be nude and intimate, yet he failed to tell the actor who would be doing that nudity/intimacy, and he failed to engage the intimacy coordinator. Huge fail on his part.

Combined with indications that Baldoni and Wayfarer were excited about the prospect of Lively being nude on set for that scene, with a producer flying in just to watch that specific scene being filmed. That seems odd because a birth scene is not a very interesting one to watch being filmed. It's highly technical with minimal dialogue. Baldoni also hired a friend to play the doctor in the scene. Again this is weird because it's a nothing role -- few lines and actually a technical, stressful shoot because of the blocking involved. There are lots of small roles that an actor friend would usually rather have -- waiter, bartender, nurse, etc. Filming a birth scene where you are going to have to repeat the same lines and movements over and over again in a tight set as they get a bunch of angles of the lead actors faces (not yours) would be kind of a pain.

Unless you were excited about the prospect of being in close proximity to a very famous actress who you've been assured will be mostly nude during the shoot.

The whole thing looks extremely unprofessional. But if Lively had just refused or walked off the set, the news would be "Blake Lively throws tantrum, delays production costing studio thousands." A no-win for her.

I do not like Blake Lively as an actor and find her public persona very grating. And I am 100% on her side here. This was gross and should not have happened.

There is quite a bit of fictionalizing here. Points for creativity though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just reread his Complaint. He claims that Blake refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator so he had to meet with them alone, relay that discussion with Blake and then get her buy in. Very strange that Blake wouldn’t want the intimacy coordinator directly involved with her.

He is alleging that she declined to meet with the intimacy coordinator prior to filming. She said she trusted the coordinator and didn't feel they needed to meet. But that's not the same as Lively not wanting the coordinator "directly involved" with her. Lively had just had a baby and didn't want to disrupt her maternity leave with pre-production meetings. Once on the set, Lively worked directly with the intimacy coordinator.

Lively's complaints regarding the coordinator have to do with scenes that were not scripted as intimate scenes and for which the intimacy coordinator was not brought in. So meeting with the IC before production wouldn't have changed that dynamic. The IC was never charged with choreographing the birth scene or the dancing scene that Lively alleges were changed on set to become nude/intimate scenes without input from the IC. That was sprung on Lively the day of filming.

Actually her claims are also that she didn’t like the way changes were made to the intimacy scenes. She also said she wanted everything mapped out before filming started. Then she refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator before filming started. He is saying that any changes made to intimacy scenes were discussed with and approved by the intimacy coordinator.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The IC has a lot to ask for as well. Why didn't they step in?

Regarding the birth scene, the IC could not step in because she was not there.

The birth scene was not scripted to be a scene with nudity. So the IC didn't choreograph that scene and was not asked to come to set that day. It would be standard to have the IC on set for any scene where an actor was asked to do full OR partial nudity.

Baldoni failed to inform Lively OR the intimacy coordinator that the birth scene would be nude in advance. Even though according to him, it is "normal" for women to be naked during birth and his own wife apparently "ripped off" her clothes during childbirth. So he knew he wanted that scene to be nude and intimate, yet he failed to tell the actor who would be doing that nudity/intimacy, and he failed to engage the intimacy coordinator. Huge fail on his part.

Combined with indications that Baldoni and Wayfarer were excited about the prospect of Lively being nude on set for that scene, with a producer flying in just to watch that specific scene being filmed. That seems odd because a birth scene is not a very interesting one to watch being filmed. It's highly technical with minimal dialogue. Baldoni also hired a friend to play the doctor in the scene. Again this is weird because it's a nothing role -- few lines and actually a technical, stressful shoot because of the blocking involved. There are lots of small roles that an actor friend would usually rather have -- waiter, bartender, nurse, etc. Filming a birth scene where you are going to have to repeat the same lines and movements over and over again in a tight set as they get a bunch of angles of the lead actors faces (not yours) would be kind of a pain.

Unless you were excited about the prospect of being in close proximity to a very famous actress who you've been assured will be mostly nude during the shoot.

The whole thing looks extremely unprofessional. But if Lively had just refused or walked off the set, the news would be "Blake Lively throws tantrum, delays production costing studio thousands." A no-win for her.

I do not like Blake Lively as an actor and find her public persona very grating. And I am 100% on her side here. This was gross and should not have happened.

There is quite a bit of fictionalizing here. Points for creativity though.

Literally nothing they said is fictionalizing

[Anonymous]

I agree with the person who posted about the boundaries being crossed in the birth scene, but now I'm wondering what in the heck angle they filmed it that they would need her (or get her to agree) to wear a gown on top but be virtually naked on the bottom instead of wearin shorts or underwear. It seems to me that once you're wearing the gown there is zero reason you can't wear panties under.

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Anonymous wrote:" On the day of shooting the scene in which Ms. Lively's character gives birth, Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath suddenly pressured Ms. Lively to simulate full nudity, despite no mention of nudity
for this scene in the script, her contract, or in previous creative discussions. Mr. Baldoni insisted to Ms.
Lively that women give birth naked, and that his wife had “ripped her clothes off” during labor. He
claimed it was “not normal” for women to remain in their hospital gowns while giving birth. Ms. Lively
disagreed, but felt forced into a compromise that she would be naked from below the chest down"

"To add insult to injury, Mr. Heath approached Ms. Lively and her assistant on set and started playing a video of a fully nude woman with her legs spread apart. Ms. Lively thought he was showing her pornography and stopped him. Mr. Heath explained that the video was his wife giving birth. Ms. Lively was alarmed and asked Mr. Heath if his wife knew he was sharing the video, to which he replied "She isn't weird about this stuff,” as if Ms. Lively was weird for not welcoming it. Ms. Lively and her assistant excused themselves, stunned that Mr. Heath had shown them a nude video."

This is all extremely messed up. Why are people defending these two? The mental gymnastics to make this seem ok is exhausting.

Because they are filmmakers making a movie where the pivotal scene is childbirth. It literally gives the name of the movie. It’s completely normal that they would discuss nudity in the CHILDBIRTH scene with the actress knowingly being paid to act out a scene of CHILDBIRTH.

All caps doesn't make your point any more compelling. The childbirth scene is pivotal for emotional reasons, and birth scenes are regularly filmed from the chest up and focus on the actors' faces and interactions, because frankly making a birth scene more graphic than that is going to take most viewers out of the scene emotionally. Also many, many women give birth wearing a hospital gown and most birth scenes are filmed with the actress mostly clothed. So no, it was actually not at all normal for the director to assume that the scene would be filmed nude or that Lively would know they expected her to be nude. It's not what is typical for the industry.

And Baldoni and his team either knew that or were very stupid because, as Lively points out, if they'd planned for the birth scene to be done nude all along, they would have scripted it as a nude scene, obtained a nudity rider, and enlisted the intimacy coordinator in choreographing the scene and had her on set that day. They didn't do any of those things. So either they also didn't expect the scene to be nude and just decided on the fly that day that it would be, or they are just extremely bad at their jobs and failed to properly script, storyboard, and follow normal procedure for something that was always planned to be a nude scene.

Either way, they screwed up.

The scene was filmed with her dressed, no? So they suggested something she didn’t want to do, and after she said no, they filmed it the way she wanted it filmed.

No. Read the complaint. She was nude from the waist down with only a small strip of nude fabric covering her genitals, and when she repeatedly asked for something to cover herself with between takes, she was ignored even after multiple requests. It was not even remotely how she wanted it to be filmed.

They also sprang the nudity request on her on the day of filming instead of setting it up in advance. Extremely unprofessional. You don't ask an actor to do a scene nude the day it's shot -- there's intense pressure because if you can't reach a compromise, the scene can be delayed and can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the cost of the location, other actors and personnel, as well as the costs associated with booking all of that again for a future date.

The Complaint quite clearly says they compromised on this disagreement by covering the upper half of her body.

Is that really a compromise if that was how the scene was initially meant to play out, and they were asking her for more?

If that was how it was suppose to be and they didn’t change it, I would say she got her way. But she calls it a compromise.

Oh my god I feel like I'm conversing with the village idiot. I'll try to use small words and simple sentences.

The scene was scripted with no nudity. Lively wanted to do the scene with clothes on -- a hospital gown and some kind of shorts on the bottom.

Baldoni decided he wanted Blake to simulate full nudity for the scene. Simulating full nudity means no clothes at all, but with strips of fabric glued to her genitals. That's how most nude scenes are filmed.

The compromised on partial nudity. That means Blake wore a hospital gown on top but was nude from the waist down, with just a strip of nude fabric taped to her genitals.

Do you see how the compromise was different from what both Lively and Baldoni wanted? Do you see how it was different from how the scene was scripted?

If she had a gown on but pushed up, seems like it would have been easy to cover up between takes, just saying.

While laying with legs spread in stirrups? No.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just reread his Complaint. He claims that Blake refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator so he had to meet with them alone, relay that discussion with Blake and then get her buy in. Very strange that Blake wouldn’t want the intimacy coordinator directly involved with her.

He is alleging that she declined to meet with the intimacy coordinator prior to filming. She said she trusted the coordinator and didn't feel they needed to meet. But that's not the same as Lively not wanting the coordinator "directly involved" with her. Lively had just had a baby and didn't want to disrupt her maternity leave with pre-production meetings. Once on the set, Lively worked directly with the intimacy coordinator.

Lively's complaints regarding the coordinator have to do with scenes that were not scripted as intimate scenes and for which the intimacy coordinator was not brought in. So meeting with the IC before production wouldn't have changed that dynamic. The IC was never charged with choreographing the birth scene or the dancing scene that Lively alleges were changed on set to become nude/intimate scenes without input from the IC. That was sprung on Lively the day of filming.

Actually her claims are also that she didn’t like the way changes were made to the intimacy scenes. She also said she wanted everything mapped out before filming started. Then she refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator before filming started. He is saying that any changes made to intimacy scenes were discussed with and approved by the intimacy coordinator.

I can't find a searchable pdf of Baldoni's complaint but just going by the article in Variety, she only refused one, unscheduled, meet and greet type meeting with the intimiacy coordinator. It was nice of him to offer that meeting and fine for her to decline if that's the only one she declined. That does not in any way mean she did not engage with the IC in the appropriate way during filming. It would be different if he established a pattern of her no showing at scheduled meetings to discuss the substance of the scenes, and then she complained about the lack of IC.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/justin-baldoni-sues-new-york-times-blake-lively-allegations-story-1236263099/
In one text message sent by Lively before production included in the suit, she indicates that she is in no hurry to meet with the film’s intimacy coordinator. “I feel good. I can meet her when we start thank you though!”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just reread his Complaint. He claims that Blake refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator so he had to meet with them alone, relay that discussion with Blake and then get her buy in. Very strange that Blake wouldn’t want the intimacy coordinator directly involved with her.

He is alleging that she declined to meet with the intimacy coordinator prior to filming. She said she trusted the coordinator and didn't feel they needed to meet. But that's not the same as Lively not wanting the coordinator "directly involved" with her. Lively had just had a baby and didn't want to disrupt her maternity leave with pre-production meetings. Once on the set, Lively worked directly with the intimacy coordinator.

Lively's complaints regarding the coordinator have to do with scenes that were not scripted as intimate scenes and for which the intimacy coordinator was not brought in. So meeting with the IC before production wouldn't have changed that dynamic. The IC was never charged with choreographing the birth scene or the dancing scene that Lively alleges were changed on set to become nude/intimate scenes without input from the IC. That was sprung on Lively the day of filming.

Actually her claims are also that she didn’t like the way changes were made to the intimacy scenes. She also said she wanted everything mapped out before filming started. Then she refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator before filming started. He is saying that any changes made to intimacy scenes were discussed with and approved by the intimacy coordinator.

I can't find a searchable pdf of Baldoni's complaint but just going by the article in Variety, she only refused one, unscheduled, meet and greet type meeting with the intimiacy coordinator. It was nice of him to offer that meeting and fine for her to decline if that's the only one she declined. That does not in any way mean she did not engage with the IC in the appropriate way during filming. It would be different if he established a pattern of her no showing at scheduled meetings to discuss the substance of the scenes, and then she complained about the lack of IC.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/justin-baldoni-sues-new-york-times-blake-lively-allegations-story-1236263099/
In one text message sent by Lively before production included in the suit, she indicates that she is in no hurry to meet with the film’s intimacy coordinator. “I feel good. I can meet her when we start thank you though!”

That's how I felt about the situation. The IC was only needed for a few scenes anyway. She had the baby and didn't want to be bothered. It's not like she refused to ever meet them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The IC has a lot to ask for as well. Why didn't they step in?

Regarding the birth scene, the IC could not step in because she was not there.

The birth scene was not scripted to be a scene with nudity. So the IC didn't choreograph that scene and was not asked to come to set that day. It would be standard to have the IC on set for any scene where an actor was asked to do full OR partial nudity.

Baldoni failed to inform Lively OR the intimacy coordinator that the birth scene would be nude in advance. Even though according to him, it is "normal" for women to be naked during birth and his own wife apparently "ripped off" her clothes during childbirth. So he knew he wanted that scene to be nude and intimate, yet he failed to tell the actor who would be doing that nudity/intimacy, and he failed to engage the intimacy coordinator. Huge fail on his part.

Combined with indications that Baldoni and Wayfarer were excited about the prospect of Lively being nude on set for that scene, with a producer flying in just to watch that specific scene being filmed. That seems odd because a birth scene is not a very interesting one to watch being filmed. It's highly technical with minimal dialogue. Baldoni also hired a friend to play the doctor in the scene. Again this is weird because it's a nothing role -- few lines and actually a technical, stressful shoot because of the blocking involved. There are lots of small roles that an actor friend would usually rather have -- waiter, bartender, nurse, etc. Filming a birth scene where you are going to have to repeat the same lines and movements over and over again in a tight set as they get a bunch of angles of the lead actors faces (not yours) would be kind of a pain.

Unless you were excited about the prospect of being in close proximity to a very famous actress who you've been assured will be mostly nude during the shoot.

The whole thing looks extremely unprofessional. But if Lively had just refused or walked off the set, the news would be "Blake Lively throws tantrum, delays production costing studio thousands." A no-win for her.

I do not like Blake Lively as an actor and find her public persona very grating. And I am 100% on her side here. This was gross and should not have happened.

There is quite a bit of fictionalizing here. Points for creativity though.

Literally nothing they said is fictionalizing

The third and fourth paragraphs are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just reread his Complaint. He claims that Blake refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator so he had to meet with them alone, relay that discussion with Blake and then get her buy in. Very strange that Blake wouldn’t want the intimacy coordinator directly involved with her.

He is alleging that she declined to meet with the intimacy coordinator prior to filming. She said she trusted the coordinator and didn't feel they needed to meet. But that's not the same as Lively not wanting the coordinator "directly involved" with her. Lively had just had a baby and didn't want to disrupt her maternity leave with pre-production meetings. Once on the set, Lively worked directly with the intimacy coordinator.

Lively's complaints regarding the coordinator have to do with scenes that were not scripted as intimate scenes and for which the intimacy coordinator was not brought in. So meeting with the IC before production wouldn't have changed that dynamic. The IC was never charged with choreographing the birth scene or the dancing scene that Lively alleges were changed on set to become nude/intimate scenes without input from the IC. That was sprung on Lively the day of filming.

Actually her claims are also that she didn’t like the way changes were made to the intimacy scenes. She also said she wanted everything mapped out before filming started. Then she refused to meet with the intimacy coordinator before filming started. He is saying that any changes made to intimacy scenes were discussed with and approved by the intimacy coordinator.

I can't find a searchable pdf of Baldoni's complaint but just going by the article in Variety, she only refused one, unscheduled, meet and greet type meeting with the intimiacy coordinator. It was nice of him to offer that meeting and fine for her to decline if that's the only one she declined. That does not in any way mean she did not engage with the IC in the appropriate way during filming. It would be different if he established a pattern of her no showing at scheduled meetings to discuss the substance of the scenes, and then she complained about the lack of IC.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/justin-baldoni-sues-new-york-times-blake-lively-allegations-story-1236263099/
In one text message sent by Lively before production included in the suit, she indicates that she is in no hurry to meet with the film’s intimacy coordinator. “I feel good. I can meet her when we start thank you though!”

Did you read his complaint or just hers?