Blake Lively: The Woman That Took Taylor Swift’s ‘The Man’ A Little Too Seriously – And What Her Legal Battle Against Justin Baldoni Means For The #MeToo Movement
We ended 2024 with a BANG, and started 2025 just the same when Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni launched dueling lawsuits against each other, with Lively alleging that Baldoni and key stakeholders of the film sexually harassed her during filming of ‘It Ends With Us’, and attempted, along with Baldoni’s production company and crisis PR company, The Agency Group PR, to orchestrate a smear campaign against her. In the latest Blake-Lively-and-Justin-Baldoni-related news, Scarlett Johansson opened up to Vanity Fair about her feature film directorial debut, Eleanor The Great, which is backed by Wayfarer Studios, founded by Justin Baldoni. When Baldoni’s name was brought up in the interview, Johansson said, with a laugh, that the Wayfarer team was supportive all throughout the process of making the film. She also called it a ‘weird timing’, in reference to the movie being released in the midst of Baldoni’s legal battle against Lively, or is it the other way around – Lively’s legal battle against Baldoni? It all really depends on how you view the situation from the outside looking in. If you didn’t already know, Johansson was previously married to Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, between 2008 and 2011. She’s now married to Colin Jost. But no matter how you look at it, things are getting uglier in the legal battle between the two. Here we break down the entire 5 months since Blake Lively filed her lawsuit against Baldoni. We explore how Lively became ‘The Man’ in Taylor Swift’s song and took the role literally, as well as what Taylor Swift’s exact role in the legal battle is. And we explain what the lawsuit means for the #MeToo social media movement. Let’s discuss…