Kate Beckinsale reacts to Blake Lively’s suit, details of abuse
Kate Beckinsale and Blake Lively.
Dave Bennett/Getty Images for Harris Reid; Janet Mayer / INSTARBlake Livelyrecent legal complaint against Justin Baldoni inspired Kate Beckinsale to talk about the abuse she faced on set.
“I have been following this situation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, as have many people, and I must emphasize that I do not know either of them. I’ve never met any of them or on set,” Beckinsale, 51, said on Sunday, December 29. Instagram video. “But I will say that it highlights this machine effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive or upsetting or harmful or whatever in this industry.”
Beckinsale recalled a time when she was working on the project and was called names after raising concerns about working with an unknown cast member.
“In the end, both on the walkie-talkie and to my face, they called me “this s…,” she claimed. “Because I said, ‘It’s very difficult for me – my colleague is drunk every day and he’s obviously going through something, and I completely sympathize with that, but I’m also waiting, like the whole team, six hours a day to he learned his lines. And that means I won’t see my daughter in the evenings, ever, for the duration of the film.”
Beckinsale shared that the studio ended up giving her a bike to use while she wasn’t working. The actress also mentioned an incident in her career when she was put on a “strict diet and exercise program” that resulted in her losing her period twice. Beckinsale went on to claim that she felt “unsafe” in “a fight situation in two different movies with two different actors” and had to have an “MRI” to show she was injured.
“I was gaslighted and made to feel like a problem, blamed and ostracized,” she claimed. “(I was) not taken to dinners, not spoken to once I mentioned there was a problem.”
In addition to mistreating others on set, Beckinsale claimed she had issues with someone on her team.
Abigail Breslin is defending Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, a year after her own allegations against former co-star Aaron Eckhart were made public. “When the word woman became synonymous with scapegoat. In light of the recent events involving the attempt to destroy the career and livelihood of one actress and woman, I (…)
“The hairstylist I hired made me do a photoshoot the day after I miscarried,” she claimed in the clip. “I said, ‘I can’t. I’m bleeding. I don’t want to go change clothes in front of strangers and do a photo shoot. I’m bleeding from a miscarriage,” she claimed. “She said, ‘You’re going to have to or you’re going to be sued.’
Beckinsale said the examples she mentioned in the clip are just a few of many similar experience she had in her career for many years. While Beckinsale noted that times have changed, she argued that these issues on set are still prevalent today, and she’s proud that Lively, 37, is standing up for and inspiring other women like her.
“I’m grateful to Blake Lively for pointing out that this isn’t an archaic problem that no one faces — it’s ongoing.” The underground world – said the actress. “And then when that happens, the machine steps in to completely destroy you. And I’m sure it’s happening in other areas as well, and it just needs to stop.”
She sued him for sexual harassment months after reports of a split between ‘It’s Over’ co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, December 20, and obtained by Us Weekly following reports by TMZ and The New York Times, Lively accused Baldoni of launching (…)
Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni, 40, on December 20, accusing him of sexual harassment and launching a campaign of “social manipulation” against her to “destroy” her reputation while promoting their film It ends with us.
“I hope my lawsuit will help lift the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement to The New York Times December 21.
Baldoni denied these accusations and stated through his lawyer that the allegations are “totally false, outrageous and deliberately obscene.”
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