It Ends With Us Crew Member Says Blake Vigorous Tried to ‘Take Energy’ from Justin Baldoni

• 60 Minutes Australia interviewed It Ends With Us storyboard artist Talia Spencer, who advised this system that she believes Blake Vigorous “tried to take benefit and take energy” away from Justin Baldoni on the set of the 2024 movie
• “I believe there was an enormous compromise by way of Justin’s unique imaginative and prescient for the movie,” Spencer stated
• Vigorous sued Baldoni over allegations of sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear marketing campaign in December 2024; Baldoni countersued in January, and the case is about to go to trial in March 2026

A storyboard artist who labored on It Ends With Us is talking out about her expertise with Justin Baldoni because the director’s authorized battle with Blake Vigorous continues.

On Sunday, April 13, 60 Minutes Australia aired a phase that dove into Vigorous and Baldoni’s ongoing authorized battle over alleged sexual harassment and misbehavior on the set of It Ends With Us. The Australian information program interviewed crew member Talia Spencer, who described Baldoni, 41, as “one of many few administrators I’ve labored for that was variety and respectful.”

Spencer recalled how Baldoni recruited her to work on the film, and stated that she joined the drama partly as a result of she felt Baldoni cared “lots in regards to the imaginative and prescient of what we’re attempting to do right here and [he was] not in it for fame.”

Spencer is credited with work within the artwork departments of 10 tv collection and films relationship again to 2019. “I really feel like perhaps Blake smelled his kindness, mistook it for weak spot and tried to take benefit and take energy,” she advised 60 Minutes Australia of how she thinks the state of affairs between Vigorous, 37, and Baldoni developed on set. When requested whether or not she thought Vigorous “wrestled management of the movie” away from Baldoni, she stated, “I believe she tried to, sure.” 

“Most likely, yeah,” she added, when requested if she felt like Vigorous succeeded in that activity. “I believe there was an enormous compromise by way of Justin’s unique imaginative and prescient for the movie.”

A consultant for Vigorous didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

Vigorous launched the authorized battle between her and Baldoni when she filed a lawsuit in opposition to him alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear marketing campaign in December 2024. Baldoni has denied Vigorous’s allegations and countersued Vigorous, her husband Ryan Reynolds, in addition to their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR agency Imaginative and prescient PR, Inc., in January, alleging civil extortion, defamation and extra, which Vigorous’s attorneys have referred to as “meritless.”

In Baldoni’s grievance, he claims two totally different edits of It Ends With Us emerged throughout manufacturing, one overseen by Baldoni, and one commissioned by Vigorous, who would later achieve a producer credit score as her model finally turned the ultimate movie.

Through the promotion of the movie, Vigorous and others expressed how she had a hand in lots of points of the film’s remaining product. Many items of the costumes got here from her personal wardrobe, she pulled connections to construct the soundtrack, and she or he stated husband Ryan Reynolds contributed dialogue to 1 pivotal scene.

When PEOPLE provided the primary have a look at It Ends With Us in April 2024, Baldoni stated in an interview, “There wasn’t part of this manufacturing that [Lively] did not contact and have affect on. And the whole lot she put her fingers on and her thoughts to, she made higher.”

Nonetheless in Vigorous’s grievance, it is alleged that Baldoni added and improvised scenes that weren’t within the beforehand permitted script. In a single instance, she claims Baldoni “personally added graphic content material, together with a scene wherein Ms. Vigorous was to orgasm on-camera. When Ms. Vigorous objected to those additions, Mr. Baldoni insisted he had added them as a result of he was making the movie ‘by the feminine gaze.’ ” Baldoni later agreed to take away the scenes, in response to her grievance.

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Vigorous and Baldoni’s case is at present set to go to trial in March 2026. Spencer, who advised 60 Minutes Australia that it is “positively a bit of bit unhappy” to see It Ends With Us‘ success be marred by the authorized battle that adopted, stated she finally hopes to see all events concerned “put their swords down and acknowledge their half in it and get alongside, however we do not actually stay in that world, proper?”

“It is a bit of too late for that,” she added within the phase. “I hope that the reality comes out, I hope that the harmless events are confirmed harmless and we transfer on.”