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\n\tIsabela Ferrer got a big break when she was cast as Young Lily in \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d playing the younger version of Blake Lively\u2018s character.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut a year after her film debut, Ferrer finds herself trapped in a bitter legal feud between Lively and the film\u2019s director, Justin Baldoni, both of whom have subpoenaed her.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn Sunday, Ferrer\u2019s lawyer alleged that Baldoni is \u201charassing\u201d her and trying to use his financial leverage over her to control how she responds to Lively\u2019s subpoena \u2014 when what she really wants is not to be dragged further into the dispute.<\/p>\n
\n\tLively is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and alleges that Baldoni launched a secret campaign to smear her reputation after she complained. <\/p>\n
\n\tHer lawsuit includes an allegation that Baldoni added a scene to the film in which Young Lily loses her virginity. After the scene was filmed, she alleges that Baldoni approached the young actors and said, \u201cI know I\u2019m not supposed to say this, but that was hot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn response, Baldoni\u2019s lawyers released text messages from Ferrer in which she called him a \u201cgreat director\u201d and said he was \u201cwonderful to work with.\u201d His lawyers have argued that as the feud developed with Lively during the subsequent promotion of the film, Ferrer felt compelled to shun him.<\/p>\n
\n\tLively\u2019s lawyers subpoenaed Ferrer in February, seeking any communications between her and the other parties in the case. That required Ferrer to hire a lawyer and to seek a guarantee that Baldoni\u2019s team, as her employer, would cover her legal bills. <\/p>\n
\n\tThat, in turn, led to a protracted dispute. Ferrer\u2019s lawyer, Sanford Michelman, claimed that Baldoni was seeking to condition the financial guarantee on retaining control over Ferrer\u2019s response to the subpoena, or at least control over her legal representation. According to Michelman, the producers\u2019 lawyer cited a fake case, which he believed to be an AI hallucination, in support of the argument that the producers had such leverage.<\/p>\n
\n\tMichelman also alleged that Baldoni\u2019s team had contorted the facts surrounding Ferrer\u2019s involvement in the dispute.<\/p>\n
\n\tWhile an agreement was being worked out, Baldoni\u2019s team asked if Michelman would accept service of a subpoena on her behalf. He refused.<\/p>\n
\n\tBaldoni\u2019s lawyers want Ferrer to produce documents and messages. According to them, a process server has tried to catch her at addresses in Brooklyn and Sag Harbor, but has been unable to track her down.<\/p>\n
\n\tBaldoni\u2019s lawyers are asking a judge to approve \u201calternative service,\u201d essentially forcing Michelman to accept service of the subpoena on Ferrer\u2019s behalf. Michelman is opposed, arguing they have failed to show that Ferrer is ducking the subpoena.<\/p>\n
\n\tFerrer\u2019s legal team says Baldoni\u2019s motion, as well as the dispute over the Lively subpoena, exhibits a \u201cbroader pattern of conduct by Baldoni to bully Ms. Ferrer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWhile Ms. Ferrer will faithfully comply with her legal obligations under any subpoena, summons or court order, she obviously will not be intimidated or extorted by any party to otherwise participate in the proceedings,\u201d Michelman wrote. <\/p>\n
\n\tAs part of the new filing, Ferrer asks the court to \u201cdeny the Motion in its entirety and impose appropriate sanctions against Baldoni.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBaldoni\u2019s team declined Variety<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n \n\tThe trial is scheduled for March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isabela Ferrer got a big break when she was cast as Young Lily in \u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d playing the younger version of Blake Lively\u2018s character. But a year after her film debut, Ferrer finds herself trapped in a bitter legal feud between Lively and the film\u2019s director, Justin Baldoni, both of whom have subpoenaed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[9872,9870,3093,9869,3442,9871],"class_list":{"0":"post-16530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-baldoni","9":"tag-ferrer","10":"tag-files","11":"tag-isabela","12":"tag-justin","13":"tag-motion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}