US actor Justin Baldoni's lead counsel, Bryan Freedman, speaks to the press at US District Court after a pre-trial hearing - as the Blake Lively crew looks on (lawyer Michael Gottlieb in the center and Ezra Hudson on the right) - in a $400 million defamation suit by Baldoni against Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds in New York on February 3, 2025. Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are being targeted in a $400 million defamation suit by Justin Baldoni, Lively's co-star on bleak romance "It Ends With Us" -- the latest caustic twist in the legal battle engulfing the film. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)