Ryan Reynolds Name-Dropped ‘Depp’ In Texts About Blake Lively’s Legal Feud

The Marvel star referenced Depp whereas discussing the actor’s earlier lawsuit along with his ex-wife, Amber Heard.

Johnny Depp is not the one high-profile determine drawn into the Energetic-Baldoni dispute, as Ben Affleck was additionally not too long ago talked about in court docket paperwork that exposed an e-mail allegedly despatched to him by Energetic.

Forward of Energetic and Baldoni’s trial showdown, extra business huge names have surfaced within the go well with by newly launched authorized paperwork.

The newest seems to be Johnny Depp, who was name-dropped by Energetic’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, in textual content messages he despatched to his expertise agent, Warren Zavala, in August 2024.

Within the texts, Reynolds was discussing PR methods with the agent in response to what gave the impression to be a transfer by Baldoni to sway public opinion amid tensions between him and Energetic on the time over their film “It Ends with Us.”

“It is this man’s unimaginable ego. It appears like he is laying a lure if her reality surfaces whereas selling a story digitally,” Zavala stated within the textual content about Baldoni, per TMZ.

Reynolds then responded, saying, “Yeah. However actually, somebody is simply gonna inform a journalist the actual deal, and it is gonna blow up in his face.”

Because the dialog continued, Zavala described Baldoni as a “fraud sh-t weasel” and hoped for him to be “uncovered.”

He then despatched Reynolds a hyperlink to a narrative about Baldoni and Energetic feuding over the ultimate edit to “It Ends With Us,” and added the comment, “That is all spin. I believe we let it burn.”

Nevertheless, Reynolds, in a bid to precise his disapproval of Zavala’s technique, then name-dropped Depp and referenced his notorious feud with Heard.

“How’d that work out for Depp??” Reynolds stated, to which Zavala replied, “Not properly. Cratered each of them in the end.”

Each Reynolds and Zavala additionally additional blasted Baldoni within the messages, utilizing phrases like “egoistical sh-t weasel” and “human rounding error.”

Not too long ago, Ben Affleck additionally appeared to have been talked about within the Energetic–Baldoni go well with, per US Weekly.

This emerged from new court docket paperwork claiming that Energetic despatched Affleck an e-mail in Might 2024, through which she appeared to hunt his help concerning her edit of “It Ends With Us.”

Within the message, she claimed that she was in a “bake off” with Baldoni and threw shade on the filmmaker, together with claiming that he was in a cult.

Energetic not solely requested Affleck for notes or concepts on her lower, but additionally urged him to have his then-wife, Jennifer Lopez, watch the movie and share her opinions.

It stays unclear whether or not Affleck in the end helped Energetic, however the absence of any follow-up response from him has seemingly led many to invest that he snubbed the actress.

The newest court docket look in Energetic and Baldoni’s case came about on Thursday, Jan. 22, throughout which legal professionals for either side got an hour to current their arguments earlier than presiding Choose Lewis Liman.

The 2 are actually scheduled to move to trial on Might 18, 2026, greater than a month later than the initially set date.

Energetic is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and an alleged focused smear marketing campaign, which she claims occurred throughout and after the filming of their film.

The actress is searching for roughly $160 million in damages, a determine primarily based on alleged misplaced earnings for herself and her manufacturers, in addition to reputational hurt.