Blake Energetic is breaking her silence after her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni’s authorized group on Tuesday launched footage from the set of the romantic drama that they allege refutes her claims of sexual harassment in opposition to him.

Within the footage, above, which Leisure Weekly acquired from Baldoni's authorized counsel, Bryan Freedman, the 2 stars will be seen filming a scene through which their characters, Lily and Ryle, sluggish dance romantically for a slow-motion montage. The actors appear to talk to one another as themselves whereas doing so, as the ultimate scene was supposed to be with none scripted dialogue.

The 2 focus on what's extra "romantic" for the scene, with Energetic suggesting a number of instances they be speaking versus kissing. At one level within the video, Baldoni leans in to Energetic and asks her, “Am I getting beard on you at this time?” After Energetic laughs, she says, “I’m in all probability getting spray-tan on you," to which Baldoni replies that “it smells good.”

Amongst Energetic's accusations in her lawsuit filed late final month was that through the filming of “a sluggish dance scene for a montage through which no sound was recorded,” Baldoni “leaned ahead and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he mentioned, ‘it smells so good’… When Ms. Energetic later objected to this habits, Mr. Baldoni’s response was, ‘I’m not even drawn to you.’”

A press release that precedes the footage claims, “The next movies captured on Might 23, 2023 clearly refute Ms. Energetic’s characterization of his habits. The scene in query was designed to indicate the 2 characters falling in love and longing to be shut to 1 one other. Each actors are clearly behaving effectively throughout the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism.” It additionally says the clips are "all three takes filmed of the sequence" however it's unclear if there may be further footage that was shot and never included right here.

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In a prolonged assertion offered to EW on Tuesday, Energetic's authorized group slams the footage as "damning," saying partly that “each body of the launched footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Energetic described in Paragraph 48 of her Grievance."

The assertion calls out Baldoni "repeatedly leaning in towards Ms. Energetic, making an attempt to kiss her, kissing her brow, rubbing his face and mouth in opposition to her neck, flicking her lip along with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and speaking along with her out of character," all of which they are saying was improvised by him "with no dialogue or consent prematurely, and no intimacy coordinator current."

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It continues, "The video exhibits Ms. Energetic leaning away and repeatedly asking for the characters to simply speak. Any girl who has been inappropriately touched within the office will acknowledge Ms. Energetic’s discomfort. They’ll acknowledge her makes an attempt at levity to attempt to deflect the undesirable touching. No girl ought to should take defensive measures to keep away from being touched by their employer with out their consent."

Energetic's authorized group additionally slammed the discharge of the video itself versus exhibiting it as proof in courtroom as "one other instance of an unethical try to govern the general public" and "a continuation of their harassment and retaliatory marketing campaign."

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Baldoni's authorized counsel, in the meantime, states that their shopper "has nothing to cover. And this video, as soon as extra proves this. Justin and group have the proper to defend themselves with the reality and that is what we can be persevering with to indicate with the upcoming web site containing all correspondence in addition to related movies that instantly quash her claims."

Energetic first filed her lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni and his movie studio Wayfarer after she filed an preliminary grievance with the California Civil Rights Division late final month, through which she accused her costar and director of sexual harassment on set and orchestrating a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her, amongst different issues. Baldoni has since filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to The New York Times, who first reported Energetic's allegations.

Then, on Jan. 16, Baldoni filed a separate go well with in opposition to Energetic and her husband Ryan Reynolds. That lawsuit, which EW has reviewed, was additionally filed on behalf of Wayfarer, and its chief government, Jamey Heath, a producer on It Ends With Us, and requests no less than $400 million in damages. In it, Baldoni alleges defamation, civil extortion, and breach of contract, amongst different accusations.