Kate Beckinsale opened up about on-set violence to support Blake Lively

Kate Beckinsale recently took to Instagram to share a very personal video in which she talks about several instances of harassment and abuse she experienced while working on various sets, supporting Blake Lively.

Lively, who starred and worked under Justin BaldoniThe director of the film adaptation of “It Ends With Us” accused him of sexual harassment during production. According to the lawsuit, Baldoni allegedly showed Lively indecent images and videos and made inappropriate inquiries about her personal sex life. The complaint further alleges that Baldoni retaliated against Lively after she spoke out by launching a smear campaign to damage her professional and personal reputation.

As more details emerge, more celebrities are coming out in support of Blake Lively, including Kate Beckinsale, who shared her own disturbing experience.

In a video clip that went viral, Beckinsale spoke about being called “that drunk” just for talking about a co-star who was “drunk every day” on set.

“He was going through something. I sympathize with it, but I waited, like the film crew, for six hours a day for him to learn his lines,” the actress recalled. “It means I won’t see my daughter in the evenings for the entire film. The studio responded by giving me a bike to ride around the studio while I wait. And then, of course, I was called k-nt and ch-ch. I was called a “stupid devil” during filming.

She then revealed that there were not one, but two different sets where she “was on such a strict diet and exercise program” that she “lost her period all together”.

While working on the action film, Beckinsale revealed that the man who plays her physically harmed her during a fight. However, when she brought up her injury, she found herself isolated by the rest of the cast.

“There’s a certain type of actor who gets a thrill from being able to legitimately hurt a woman in a fight,” the actress explained. “And I was harmed, to the point that an MRI confirmed it. I was gaslighted and made to feel like I was the problem and blamed and kicked out of dinners as soon as I mentioned there was a problem.’

Beckinsale then dropped the bombshell that her publicist “forced” her to shoot “the day after I had a miscarriage.”

“I said, ‘I can’t.’ I’m bleeding. I don’t want to go and change in front of strangers and do a photo shoot. I’m bleeding from a miscarriage,” she explained. “She said, ‘You’re going to have to or you’re going to be sued.’

“It’s happening. It went on forever. I have 47 million stories like that,” said the actress, shedding light on the harassment that actresses often face on the sets. “I was 18 years old and I felt like I was in the team of someone I really trusted. I went to the lead actress, who was known for being a fan of women, and said that this was happening, and was told, “No, it wasn’t.” I went to another actress and said I had just been assaulted by this man and said, “No, you weren’t.”

She then went on to talk about how being a woman in the industry doesn’t allow you to mention it because if you do, “you’re screwed.”

“It has to be; you absorb it, and somehow you’re a friend,” she said. “This must be stopped. I am grateful to Blake Lively for pointing out that this is not an archaic problem that no one faces. It continues. When that happens, the machine kicks in to destroy you completely.”

In the caption of her video, Beckinsale explained that:

“Everyone in EVERY industry needs to be taken seriously and not punished when something outrageous happens to them at work and the difference I guess in our industry is that it becomes something that plays out in the public sphere and it can be very very hard to accept and because it’s public and so public worldwide and very quickly becomes clickbait, it can also destroy someone’s livelihood, mental health and reputation and it it can be very difficult to recover.”

She later admitted that “it’s very, very, very easy to incite hatred against actresses, as seen in the transcripts of the disgusting conversations between the publicists and the crisis team involved in this case.” This added Beckinsale social media also plays a rolesomething like that Amber Heard expressed earlier.

Towards the end of her lengthy caption, the actress mentioned Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni.

“I don’t want anyone, male or female, who has a legitimate claim to be held against them in any industry, anywhere, and I’m bringing this up with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni because our industry is doing things more conspicuous by the deliberate involvement of the press and the public in forming an opinion which they do not understand is deliberate.’