apr 21, 2023 - Baldoni Meets with the Intimacy Coordinator

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"April 21, 2023: Baldoni meets with the intimacy coordinator to discuss how to shoot the sex
scenes. It was important to him that the intimacy coordinator be a woman to help craft sex scenes
that would speak to the book’s mostly female audience—i.e., be written from the “female gaze.” His notes from this meeting are pictured below and were later shared with Lively during one of their script-writing meetings at her New York apartment. These notes would later become the basis for Lively’s Complaint, in which she states that Baldoni would talk about his own sex life and insert gratuitous scenes with Lively’s character orgasming. As seen in the notes, these mentions come directly from the intimacy coordinator’s notes— “goes down on her,” “orgasm,” “foreplay,” “The clit test.” Ideally, these conversations would have taken place directly between Lively and the intimacy coordinator directly, as Baldoni had requested; however, Lively declined to meet with her, leaving Baldoni in the less than ideal position of having to relay these notes to Lively in her penthouse. "

(see page 15 and 16)

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