Ryan Reynolds Speaks at Harvard Business School amid Ongoing Legal Battle with Justin Baldoni

Ryan Reynolds is wading into the Ivy League.

Amid his and wife Blake Lively's ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni, the Deadpool & Wolverine actor posted on his Instagram Stories Wednesday, Jan. 22, that he recently spoke at Harvard Business School in Boston, sharing a few photos from the experience.

In the first image, Reynolds, 48, stands in the middle of a large crowd of people in what appears to be a lecture hall. Underneath the snap, he wrote, "If my dad were even remotely alive enough to see me speaking at Harvard Business School, he'd be pretty impressed."

"More due to his sudden aliveness ... but also, what an opportunity to withhold affection AND see your child speak at Harvard," Reynolds joked.

Ryan’s father, James Chester Reynolds, died in 2015 at age 74 after living with Parkinson’s disease for nearly 20 years.

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Under another photo which showed him speaking in front of the class with author Matt Higgins, Reynolds wrote, "Thank you @mhiggins for the thought conversation and tee up."

"This class has megawatt talent. The questions alone made me wiser," Reynolds concluded.

The actor's appearance in Boston comes days after he was photographed out in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 16 — the same day Baldoni, 40, filed a $400 million lawsuit against him, Lively, 37, and their publicist Leslie Sloane, plus Sloane's PR firm Vision PR, Inc.

Reynolds also served as a presenter at the National Board of Review Awards gala earlier this month, which marked his first public appearance since his wife filed her initial sexual-harassment complaint against Baldoni on Dec. 20, 2024.

Baldoni, who has strongly denied Lively's allegations, is suing the couple on claims including civil extortion and defamation.

Lively alleged in her initial complaint that Baldoni engaged in misconduct during the production of It Ends with Us, which was released in August 2024 as a film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestselling 2016 novel.

The actress's complaint included accusations that Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath entered her trailer “uninvited” while she was undressed or “vulnerable" and alleged Baldoni “suddenly” pressured her to “simulate full nudity” in a birth scene and “improvised physical intimacy that had not been rehearsed, choreographed or discussed with Ms. Lively, with no intimacy coordinator involved."

Per her complaint, the Simple Favor star met with Baldoni and several of the film's producers, alongside husband Reynolds as her representative, to put protections in place before production resumed following two Hollywood strikes. The complaint alleged that after his production company agreed to the protections, Baldoni later hired crisis publicists to begin a retaliatory smear campaign against her.

Lively's filing noted that she has "suffered from grief, fear, trauma and extreme anxiety" due to Baldoni's alleged behavior and that the "emotional impact" also affected Reynolds and their four kids.

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On top of his $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and Sloane, Baldoni also filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times on Dec. 31, 2024, alleging libel, false light invasion of privacy, promissory fraud and breach of implied-in-fact contract regarding the article the outlet published titled "'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine." The Times stands by its reporting and said it will defend against the lawsuit.

Baldoni is also seeking to gain communications made about Reynolds' Deadpool & Wolverine character Nicepool, in an attempt to show it was used to "bully" Baldoni.

Baldoni's lawyers sent a Jan. 7 litigation hold letter to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger, demanding they hold onto documents that mention Baldoni for potential use in court.

To support his claim, Baldoni's legal team is looking for documents "relating to or reflecting a deliberate attempt to mock, harass, ridicule, intimidate or bully Baldoni through the character of Nicepool," among other subjects.

On Jan. 21, Baldoni's lawyer released footage from It Ends with Us showing Lively and Baldoni speaking out of character while filming a dialogue-free scene to joke about his nose and her
spray tan. The scene in question is referenced in both of their lawsuits.

Lively's team Lively's legal team's subsequently called it a "stunt," saying “every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter,” what Lively included in her lawsuit about that scene.

Her lawyers added that releasing the footage to the media “is another example of an unethical attempt to manipulate the public. It is also a continuation of their harassment and retaliatory campaign. While they are focused on misleading media narratives, we are focused on the legal process."

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