Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are setting wheels in motion to try and have Justin Baldoni's defamation lawsuit thrown out.
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00:00Well, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds say that Justin Baldoni has no case.
00:05In fact, they have informed the judge that they intend to walk into court on Monday and
00:11file a motion for his lawsuit against them to be dismissed, to be tossed out of court.
00:18It has some people thinking, well, wait, if his should be dismissed, why shouldn't Blake's
00:24be dismissed?
00:25The fact of the matter is, at some point, Justin Baldoni's attorneys will probably go
00:29into court and file a motion for hers to be dismissed as well.
00:33This is kind of part of the game.
00:35It's what you do.
00:36I'm sure their attorneys will present a case, try to make their case for why it's unfounded
00:41and it's a waste of the court's time and we should dismiss it.
00:44Whether it actually gets dismissed, I highly doubt it.
00:48You've got to present some really strong evidence that there's no grounds for him to file this
00:53lawsuit.
00:56It's a tough bar to meet, so I don't know that they're going to be successful in this,
01:00but their attorneys are going to give it a shot.
01:05Justin Baldoni's attorney, meanwhile, thinks that Blake Lively's got something to hide.
01:12The reason he's saying that is that he wants to depose her before these lawsuits happen.
01:17By the way, the trial for Justin's lawsuit against her has been set.
01:23It's March of next year.
01:25There's a long time to go here, but Brian Friedman, Justin Baldoni's attorney, says,
01:30look, I would love to sit down and depose Blake Lively, but he thinks that she doesn't
01:36want that to happen because she's got something to hide.
01:38Yeah, and we also learned some new information too.
01:41Blake's really wanting to get her mind off of all this legal drama that she's been going
01:45through with Justin.
01:46We're hearing that she's on a family vacation.
01:49They packed up their bags and they went to an undisclosed location to get their mind
01:53off of everything.
01:55Just hoping it's not Maui.
01:56We don't know where it is.
01:57I think they saw the photos of Justin in Maui.
02:01I don't think they went to Maui.
02:02Yeah, Justin's there.
02:03I can't imagine if their kids all are doing surf lessons together in Maui.
02:07That would be very awkward, but look, she wants to get away from it all.
02:11She wants to get her mind off of the stress, and he does too.
02:14We've been saying this, and I'm curious, Jason, what you think.
02:17My take on this has been this is mostly about PR, right?
02:22They've both made allegations against each other, very serious allegations, but really
02:27this feels like it's about PR, that they each want to win in the court of public opinion.
02:34If it ends up in an actual legal court, okay, fine, but what they really want to win is
02:39what does the public think of us?
02:40Well, I think that's where their financial future rests, so I completely agree.
02:44I don't think this is going to get settled in court, but both of them have lost.
02:48The only real winners here are the attorneys, I'm sure.
02:51Yes.
02:52Attorneys always win.
02:53Yeah, and I agree with you.
02:54I mean, if we're sitting here in 15 months talking about this, I'd say that's very, very
02:58unlikely, and by that point, neither of them would have been cast in movies, and they both
03:02would have lost millions and millions.
03:03I will say this, though.
03:04I think he's got a strong claim against the New York Times.
03:06I would not be surprised if that settles and he gets millions of dollars, because it seems
03:10like they definitely didn't do some good journalism.
03:13Yeah, I mean, his allegations that they were cherry-picking which messages to use to make
03:20the case for Blake, that's what he's claiming.
03:22I agree with you.
03:23I think if there's, of the three lawsuits, if there's one that could go to court, that
03:27might be it.
03:28Yeah, because I think the New York Times is going to have to pay up on that one.
03:31That'll be fun to watch.
03:32Hi, my name's Alexis Simone.
03:33I'm from Phoenix, Arizona.
03:34I think it's hilarious that Blake Lively needs a vacation from the war that she started,
03:41and I'm definitely hoping that this does not get thrown out.
03:45I definitely need to see this go to trial.
03:47It's going to be like Johnny Depp, Amber Heard 2.0, where we get all the nitty-gritty
03:51details because I'm definitely nosy and I want to see everything play out.
03:56You know what?
03:57I'm glad that you admitted it.
03:58A lot of people tried to pretend like that's not the case, but you opened it up.
04:01Don't we really all want to see this go to trial?
04:03Let's be honest.
04:04I mean, sure.
04:05This is gold.
04:06Everyone would like it to.
04:07I agree with you.
04:08I just think the principals don't want it to go to trial.
04:09True.