“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.”
The case, now pending before a federal judge, has offered a mother lode of celebrity gossip. But it also tests the line between discriminatory behavior and creative freedom, and has the potential to set new standards for acceptable conduct on Hollywood sets.
The last time this issue was explored so thoroughly, in 2006, creative freedom won. The California Supreme Court threw out a suit involving graphic sexual talk in the “Friends” writers’ room. In that case, Hollywood united behind the “Friends” writers,…
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