Brett Cooper

In reference to the dance scene that we've talked about before, in which she claims that Baldoni was kissing her off script, took everything too far, was like canoodling up in her neck, whatever it is, the judge concluded that...

There is no question that this conduct might support a hostile work environment claim if it occurred on the factory floor or in the executive suite.

But in all sexual harassment cases, the court must carefully consider the social context in which particular behavior occurs and is experienced by its target.

And the question is whether in this context, Baldonis' conduct could reasonably be understood to reflect a view about Lively as a woman rather than the role she was asked to play.

Under this framing, it would be difficult to view Baldonis' conduct as reflecting hostility or bias based on genders.

He was acting in the scene.

Assuming he was improvising, the conduct was not so far beyond what might reasonably be expected to take place between two characters during a slow dancing scene such that the inference of hostile treatment on the basis of sex would arise.

At least in isolation, the conduct was directed to Lively's character rather than to Lively herself.

Creative artists, no less than comedy room writers, must have some amount of space to experiment within the bounds of an agreed upon script without fear of being held liable for sexual harassment.

Boom, mic drop.

Judge Lehman, you just saved Hollywood.

If this was a precedent that Blake was setting, that within the confines of a script, or like Judge Lehman said, a comedy writers room, that if you can get offended by what somebody is doing within their character, like Hollywood would just implode.

You couldn't safely, like legally safely,

Denn du würdest jeden Tag auf Eierschlägen laufen, wenn du nicht deinen Job als Künstler machen würdest.

Wir wissen bereits, was MeToo in der Welt und in der Industrie gemacht hat.

Verstehe das hundertfold.

Das ist, was Blake Lively hofft, dass der Gericht das tun würde.

Und als Hinweis, vielleicht stehe ich hier nur als ehemaliger Theaterkid und Schauspielerin, aber ich kann nur den Gerichtston erwarten, als er es schreibt.

Du bist eine Schauspielerin, dumm.

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