20 Years After a ‘Friends’ Harassment Suit Was Dismissed, Baldoni-Lively Case Revisits Limits of Creative Freedom

The scene is a crowded bar. Director Justin Baldoni says that his co-star, Blake Lively, looks “pretty hot.” Lively says that wasn’t her aim.

“Sexy,” Baldoni says, in mock self-correction. “Sorry, I missed the sexual harassment training.”

That interaction, captured on video, seems like fodder for a future Human Resources webinar. For now, it is one piece of Lively’s sprawling lawsuit against Baldoni and others involved in “It Ends With Us.”

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