Ryan Reynolds’ secret move against wife Blake Lively’s co-star revealed

Page Six reports that Baldoni, who is now facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from Lively, noticed in May that his co-star’s husband had blocked him and his production company Wayfarer Studios on Instagram.

In alleged texts cited by Page Six, Baldoni worried that Lively would also block him, making joint promotion for their film a difficult prospect.

“We should have a plan for IF she does the same when [the] movie comes out,” Baldoni allegedly told his publicist via text. “Just want you guys to have a plan. Plans make me feel more at ease.”

It Ends With Us was released in August and was a huge box office success, raking in more than $US350 million worldwide against a $US25 million budget.

However, it became immediately apparent that there was some sort of divide between Lively and Baldoni, the movie’s two leads: The pair attended premieres and did the publicity rounds separately.

In a lawsuit made public today, Lively alleges that there had to be an “all hands on deck” meeting about her co-star and director Baldoni, in which he was warned to stop discussing porn, showing his co-star naked photos of women and stop discussing his sex life.

Ryan Reynolds was reportedly present for the discussion. 

Baldoni, who has today been dropped by his talent agent, strenuously denies the claims.

Elsewhere in Lively’s lawsuit, the actress alleges that the wave of online criticism she endured in the wake of the movie’s release happened because Baldoni wanted to “bury” her.

Public opinion on Blake Lively seemed to turn soon after the release of It Ends With Usin August, as a number of old interview clips circulated showing the star making snide or offensive comments to journalists. Some of the interviews in question took place more than a decade ago.

To support her claim that Baldoni was behind the internet pile-on, Lively’s lawsuit includes “thousands of pages” of text messages and emails she obtained through a subpoena.

They include this brief text, written on August 2 from a publicist working with Baldoni and the film studio and published in the New York Times today: “He wants to feel like she can be buried.”

The crisis management expert that publicist was texting had an equally succinct response: “You know we can bury anyone.”

Other texts between crisis PR experts published by the New York Times saw them congratulating each other on their “amazing work” creating “so much mixed messaging” online.

“I see this as a total success, as does Justin,” one wrote.

But in a response to the lawsuit, Baldoni’s lawyer insisted he was not behind the Blake backlash, and said Lively’s claims were simply “another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation”.