jan 4, 2024 - Ryan Reynolds Berates Baldoni - Work Conduct 'Meeting'

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"75. It was agreed that filming would resume on January 5, 2024. On the evening of January
4, 2024, Baldoni, Heath, and producers Todd Black and Alex Saks, a representative of Sony, and the Films 1st AD were invited to Lively and Reynolds’ penthouse in New York City. They arrived eager to discuss plans for the next day’s filming, prepared with their production materials. Instead, they were blindsided by Lively and Reynolds, who presented a list of grievances that were both unanticipated and troubling. Reynolds launched into a tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a “traumatic” encounter, stating he had “never been spoken to like that in his life.”

"Reynolds demanded an apology to Lively for actions that were mischaracterized and demonstrably false (see below). When Baldoni resisted apologizing for what he had not done, Reynolds became further enraged. Everyone, including the producer Lively had asked production to engage and a representative of Sony that was in attendance, left that “meeting” in shock. The producer offered that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that in a meeting, The Sony representative mentioned that she would often think of that meeting and her one regret is that she didn’t stop Reynolds’ berating of Baldoni. "

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