Ryan Reynolds’ ‘SNL’ Bit With Blake Lively Blasted by Justin Baldoni’s Lawyer

Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni was not laughing after Ryan Reynolds did a bit that slyly referenced their ongoing legal battle at SNL50 on Sunday.

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman addressed the moment Tina Fey and Amy Poehler asked Reynolds how things were going, to which he responded, “Why? What have you heard?” to laughs from the crowd. In a new episode of Billy Bush’s Hot Mics podcast, Freedman said he found Reynolds’ willingness to joke about the allegations “surprising.”

“I’m unaware of anybody, frankly, whose wife has been sexually harassed and has made jokes about that type of situation,” Freedman said on the show. “I can’t think of anyone who’s done anything like that. So it surprised me.”

Lively noticeably stared expressionless beside her husband as he delivered his line.

Lively accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her in a lengthy complaint filed in December, which was promptly accompanied by an investigation from The New York Times, outlining her complaints against him.

In the lawsuit, Lively alleges that Baldoni, who was also the film’s director, and his producing partner Jamey Heath subjected her to “invasive, unwelcome, unprofessional and sexually inappropriate behavior,” and that Baldoni then orchestrated a “smear” against her to keep the accusations from emerging.

Baldoni denied all of Lively’s claims, and days later sued the New York Times for the report before suing Lively and Reynolds personally, painting the couple as “two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites” who were retaliating for Baldoni’s not giving into Lively’s requests while making the film. Freedman said Monday that despite his legal battle against the much more well-known and financially well-off couple, Baldoni is “hopeful.”

Lively’s legal team’s latest move is to subpoena two years worth of Baldoni’s phone correspondence. “You as a lawyer should know that that’s inappropriate,” Freedman said. “A lot of people could think that they’re waiting for a response and that our response would be to object to that and then they would make a statement in the media saying, ‘Oh look, Mr. Baldoni’s team does not want the truth to come out.’ We actually want all evidence to come out that’s proper and appropriate evidence.”

Freedman concluded, “It feels like that was gamesmanship.”