Actresses support Blake Lively in 'It Ends With Us' complaint debate: 'I'm grateful to her'
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Actresses Kate Beckinsale and Abigail Breslin have publicly spoken out about their own experiences of on-set mistreatment in the wake of Blake Lively’s alleged ordeal with co-star and director Justin Baldoni on the set of It Ends With Us. Underworld and Van Helsing star Beckinsale claimed on Monday that she has suffered years of abuse and mistreatment on Hollywood sets, including an incident where she was called a “c***” for complaining about a male co-star being constantly drunk on set.
Meanwhile, Little Miss Sunshine and Zombieland star Abigail Breslin has spoken about her alleged experience with co-star Aaron Eckhert, who she accused of “aggressive, demeaning and unprofessional” behaviour in a lawsuit last year. The lawsuit also detailed how Breslin refused to be alone with Eckhert on several occasions.
This comes after Blake Lively filed a bombshell legal complaint against her former director and co-star Justin Baldoni, who she worked with on the Colleen Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us. The complaint alleges that Baldoni sexually harassed her, asked her questions about her sex life, made jokes about Lively’s dead father and brought in a male “friend” to play a doctor during a scene where Lively simulated giving birth and was mostly nude.
In the legal filing, Lively then claims that after raising these complaints with Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, Baldoni's production company, she was met with a targeted smear campaign designed to tarnish her reputation. Baldoni and Wayfarer have vehemently denied all allegations, calling them “serious and categorically false.”.
