It Ends With Us actress Isabela Ferrer is accusing her director, Justin Baldoni, of allegedly “harassing” her for communications relevant to his dispute with Blake Lively. Following Baldoni’s subpoena of Ferrer, related to this case, his lawyers filed a motion claiming that the actress was unreachable and unresponsive. Ferrer’s lawyers filed a rebuttal, claiming that Baldoni has “engaged in bad faith tactics” and filed a motion “for improper purposes and with the aim of harassing” Ferrer.

The actress portrayed the younger version of Lively’s character Lily in the Colleen Hoover book adaptation. She has asked the court to deny Baldoni’s motion and impose sanctions on him. There is currently no comment from Baldoni’s lawyers.

Lively served Ferrer a subpoena back in February for communication relevant to the dispute with Baldoni. Last December, Lively filed a sexual-harassment complaint against Baldoni, additionally alleging misconduct and a retaliatory smear campaign. The Jane the Virgin star and his collaborators have denied these claims.

In connection with Lively’s subpoena, Ferrer invoked an indemnification clause in her contract for It Ends With Us with Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios at It Ends With Us Movie, LLC, requiring them to pay their employee’s legal fees. “It Ends, LLC has not honored its obligations,” Ferrer’s team alleges in their new motion. They allege that Wayfarer Studios agreed to indemnify the actress on the “serious” condition that Ferrer “confirm that she will ‘surrender control'” of her response, “not actually allowing Ms. Ferrer to provide the documents that reveal the true facts.”

Since Ferrer submitted her relevant communications in response to Lively’s subpoena, Baldoni and his collaborators have allegedly “been improperly attempting to exert control over” her, including with the new subpoena that, Ferrer’s lawyers claim, greatly overlaps with Lively’s. “Baldoni made no effort to tailor the subpoena towards the production of new or different materials, demonstrating that the real aim of the Baldoni Subpoena, as well as the pending Motion, is to harass Ms. Ferrer.”

Additionally, it continues saying Baldoni’s subpoena and motion “are transparent efforts to exert pressure on Ms. Ferrer,” including by publicly disseminating home “addresses that could have been Ms. Ferrer’s home. This sort of conduct from Baldoni is not new.” They also claim the delayed negotiation over Ferrer’s indemnity is a “transparent attempt to put financial pressure on” her. “Ferrer sought reasonable extensions of time from Lively to respond to the Lively Subpoena until the indemnity issue was resolved.”

In his since-dismissed $400 million countersuit filed in January against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, Baldoni has accused his producer-co-star of telling Ferrer to “shun [him] in an early attempt to give fans the impression that Baldoni had committed an egregious sin.”

Both cases in Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al. are scheduled for trial in March 2026.