Justin Baldoni's lawyer may threaten to depose Taylor Swift as a way to get Blake Lively to settle the lawsuit

The legal drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, her co-star and director of It Ends With Us, may end with a settlement. Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman was a guest on TMZ's new legal podcast Two Angry Men with Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos. possibly enticed by the threat of a Taylor Swift deposition Swift, 35, is a close friend of Lively, 37, and her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, and was present during a now-infamous meeting where Lively, Reynolds and Baldoni were working out the film's rooftop scene which Lively had re-written. Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freedman was a guest on TMZ 's new legal podcast Two Angry Men with Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos A surprised Levin insisted, 'That's Taylor Swift. She was there for that meeting,' as Freedman admitted, 'She was there for that meeting' Also complicating matters for Lively is yet another lawsuit she's facing, with Baldoni's PR specialist Jed Wallace now suing her for defamation Her filing described Wallace as a Texas-based contractor 'who weaponized a digital army' to help 'create, seed, and promote' social media content attacking her and defending Baldoni Described as a 'precursor to a lawsuit', the document was attached to the original civil rights complaint that Lively filed in California on December 20 to kick off legal hostilities against her It Ends with Us co-star.