Kate Beckinsale Says She Once Had to Do a Photo Shoot While Bleeding After Miscarriage as She Reveals Hollywood Struggles

• Kate Beckinsale details harrowing experiences she’s had in Hollywood, including being “forced” into a photo shoot right after a miscarriage
• Other examples include being called a “c—” and a “bitch” on a film set after inquiring about a fellow actor’s behavior and how it affected her and others’ personal time
• The actress spoke in the context of Blake Lively’s newly filed legal suit against Justin Baldoni, due to alleged sexual harassment on the set of their film. It ends with us

Kate Beckinsale is opening up about her own harrowing experiences on set, following Blake Lively’s recent sexual harassment lawsuit against Justin Baldoni.

The actress opened up in a candid video posted on her Instagram profile on December 29, in which she said that although she had never met It ends with us costars Lively and Baldoni, their situation “highlighted … this machine that kicks in when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, disturbing, harmful, whatever, in this industry.”

One example, the 51-year-old Beckinsale said, is that she was once “forced by a publicist I was hiring to take a photo the day after I had a miscarriage.”

“I said, ‘I can’t. I’m bleeding. I don’t want to go change clothes in front of people I don’t know and take pictures. I’m bleeding from a miscarriage,’ ” Underground said the actress. “She was like, ‘You’re going to have to or you’re going to get sued.’ ”

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Beckinsale also revealed that she was once on the set of a movie “where they ended up calling me, over the walkie-talkie and to my face, ‘that cu…’ because I said, ‘I’m having a hard time – my costar is drunk every day and he’s obviously going through something and I have a lot of sympathy for that, but I’m waiting, like the whole crew, six hours a day for him to learn his lines and that means I won’t see my daughter at night, ever, for the whole movie.’ ”

Although she did not name the film project, she said that in response the studio gave her a bicycle to ride around the parking lot while she waited, and that she was once called a “stupid bitch” during filming.

Of other experiences, Beckinsale said, “In one movie, they put me on such a strict diet and exercise program that I completely lost my period—that happened twice.”

She also recalled being put in the “precarious situation of fighting on two different films with two different actors,” to the point where she had “an MRI that showed” she was seriously injured.

Kate Beckinsale in London on September 12, 2024.

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According to Beckinsale, she was “gassed and made to feel like I was the problem” and “blamed and ostracized” from cast reunions “as soon as I mentioned there was a problem,” including at one point having Harvey Weinstein put her on black list. (Though she noted that she was “one of the lucky ones” that he didn’t attack her.)

The Pearl Harbor star also said she was “pissed off by someone I really trusted on the crew” when she was 18, and the “lead actress” and co-star in the film told her that didn’t happen.

Beckinsale went on to say that she has “about 47 million stories like” the ones she shared, and that while men often tell her that things are different on set today, “fuck it, it’s not.”

“I’m grateful to Blake Lively for pointing out that this isn’t an archaic problem that no one faces — it’s ongoing,” she said. “And then when that happens, the machine kicks in to destroy you completely. I’m sure that’s the case in other industries, and it just has to stop.”

Beckinsale, who has been open about her health challenges in the past, introduced her video with a lengthy caption that read in part: “Complaining about bullying shouldn’t create more bullying, especially at work where there should be inviolable protections, and it should Women who are hurt, insulted, hurt, shamed or otherwise abused (generally with at least 100 witnesses) are not expected to be ‘one boy and take him on the chin or faces retribution for being abused in the first place.”

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Justin Baldoni in New York on December 13, 2023; Blake Lively in New York on February 13, 2024.

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“I don’t want anyone, male or female, who has a legitimate grievance to have it used against them in any industry, anywhere, and I bring this up in relation to Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni because our industry makes things more visible because of the press and the public is deliberately involved and led to an opinion that they do not realize is intentional,” she added.

In a bombshell lawsuit filed with the California Department of Civil Rights on Dec. 20, Lively’s lawyers claimed that Baldoni, whose production company, Wayfarer Studios, developed It ends with ushe sexually harassed the actress and then retaliated with a smear campaign after she spoke out.

The filing — a prerequisite to filing a workplace harassment lawsuit in the state of California — sets the stage for what could be an ugly legal battle and sheds light on allegations of continued sexism in Hollywood years after the #MeToo movement.

“I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on this sinister retaliatory tactic to harm people who speak up about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement to The New York Times.

Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, called the allegations “false, outrageous and intentionally malicious with the intent to cause public injury” in a Dec. 21 statement.

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