{"id":2279307,"date":"2026-02-12T19:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279307"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:07:23","slug":"20-years-after-a-friends-harassment-suit-was-dismissed-baldoni-lively-case-revisits-limits-of-creative-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/20-years-after-a-friends-harassment-suit-was-dismissed-baldoni-lively-case-revisits-limits-of-creative-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years After a \u2018Friends\u2019 Harassment Suit Was Dismissed, Baldoni-Lively Case Revisits Limits of Creative Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The scene is a crowded bar. Director Justin Baldoni<\/a> says that his co-star, Blake Lively<\/a>, looks \u201cpretty hot.\u201d Lively says that wasn\u2019t her aim.<\/p>\n

\u201cSexy,\u201d Baldoni says, in mock self-correction. \u201cSorry, I missed the sexual harassment training.\u201d<\/p>\n

That interaction, captured on video, seems like fodder for a future Human Resources webinar. For now, it is one piece of Lively\u2019s sprawling lawsuit against Baldoni and others involved in \u201cIt Ends With Us<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cFriends\u201d writers\u2019 room. In that case, Hollywood united behind the \u201cFriends<\/a>\u201d writers,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scene is a crowded bar. Director Justin Baldoni says that his co-star, Blake Lively, looks \u201cpretty hot.\u201d Lively says that wasn\u2019t her aim. \u201cSexy,\u201d Baldoni says, in mock self-correction. \u201cSorry, I missed the sexual harassment training.\u201d That interaction, captured on video, seems like fodder for a future Human Resources webinar. For now, it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2279307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20-Years-After-a-\u2018Friends-Harassment-Suit-Was-Dismissed-Baldoni-Lively.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279309,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279307\/revisions\/2279309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}