Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I kept seeing mentions of Alex Saks deposition on Reddit in conversations about the case so I finally went and read it. It's here for anyone else who wants to see it: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1072.15.pdf

Alex Saks was a producer on the film. She was hired directly by Baldoni but she also worked with Sony a lot (specifically Ange Gianetti at Sony who was Sony's major "creative" on the film). She was on set almost every day of filming and present for many of the critical meetings including the Jan. 4 meeting. However she was not present for many of the alleged moments of SH. She had close relationships with not only Justin and Jamey but also Blake, Jenny Slate (this turns out to be very important), and many of the production heads on the movie (like people who headed up different departments like set design or costuming).

I have to say have reading her deposition, I still don't know if Blake was SHed or retaliated against BUT it leaves me with an extremely low opinion of Justin and Jamey. What Saks describes of her own observations of their behavior is really bad. It actually kind of gave me flashbacks to the worst job I've ever had.

She describes Justin, in particular, as a narcissist. She describes multiple occasions when he yelled at her in work meetings, and one where he yelled at her on set while banging his hands on a chair next to her that she said made her feel physically unsafe (she says she told other producers that if something like that happened again, she would walk off the film).

She also describes Jenny Slate coming to her and expressing major concerns about Justin and Jamey, concerns that were so strong that she reached out to Ange Gianetti at Sony to say that she thought Justin needed to be replaced as director and that Jamey needed to be removed from the set. Saks says that Jenny Slate told her she would be happy to never see Jamey ever again. This was all *before* Saks was even made aware of any of the stuff Blake later alleged against Justin or Jamey. It sounds like Saks had major issues with Justin and Jamey before production even started, and that the reason Saks' first started raising questions with Wayfarer about potential HR violations or problems, was all based on what Jenny told her, not Blake.

Also Saks says that when she repeatedly suggested that Wayfarer conduct an HR investigation into what had happened with Jenny, Jamey ultimately shut it down because he didn't want there to be a record of any of it.

Saks also explains that she fully supported the decision to fire July Bloom as 1st AD because, according to Saks, the combination of the very "green" Wayfarer team and Bloom, who was coming from TV and didn't have a good handle on the level of communication and other requirements for a good film AD. Saks describes the set prior to the strike as being extremely disorganized and unpleasant to work on, and blames Justin and Jamey for this.

Saks also says she fully supported Blake getting the PGA mark and felt Blake's work on the film merited the credit.

I don't know, this is starting to look very bad for Wayfarer. It was kind of startling to see it laid out like that. I think if Jenny and Isabelle Ferrer's depositions are similar, this just becomes very ugly for Justin and Jamey. You can say what you want about Blake having her own issues, but when this many women on the set of a move just HATE the two men running it, you have to start asking if maybe the problem isn't the female star but actually with the two dude everyone can't stand and complains about.

Alex also said a lot of bad things about Blake, “warning” WF multiple times in texts that Blake was trying t take over the film. . She clearly tried to play both sides, and would be an easily impeachable witnesss by either side.

It doesn’t look bad for Wayfarer because this is just people who didn’t like each other, not sexual harassment.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

I see the Blake pr bot is back trying to compensate for the utter lack of any evidence to support Blake’s claims of sexual harassment.

[Anonymous]

The pro-Blaker's playbook: "Don't know what went down for sure, but this [insert irrelevant thing] looks really bad for Justin and Jamey. Like, really bad. [Proceeds to write an 800-word essay]."

Nice to know they still lurk here though Thought they had permanently perched themselves at ItEndsWithCourt or BaldoniFiles or something.

[Anonymous]

I can admit Lively's claims for SH aren't strong, and that she did leverage her star power to get credit on the movie she didn't earn. Do Baldoni fans ever admit he has been inappropriate in any way? Is every single woman just lying? That's Lively, Slate, Ferrer, Saks, Hoover, Hall, Ayoub, Plank... they've *all* been bribed by Blake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can admit Lively's claims for SH aren't strong, and that she did leverage her star power to get credit on the movie she didn't earn. Do Baldoni fans ever admit he has been inappropriate in any way? Is every single woman just lying? That's Lively, Slate, Ferrer, Saks, Hoover, Hall, Ayoub, Plank... they've *all* been bribed by Blake?

They all sound annoying — women and men. Annoying doesn’t justify a lawsuit and NY Times article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can admit Lively's claims for SH aren't strong, and that she did leverage her star power to get credit on the movie she didn't earn. Do Baldoni fans ever admit he has been inappropriate in any way? Is every single woman just lying? That's Lively, Slate, Ferrer, Saks, Hoover, Hall, Ayoub, Plank... they've *all* been bribed by Blake?

I would not be surprised if Baldoni is an annoying, man bun millennial hipster but Blake is a mean girl whose rallied the girls against cast mates in the past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can admit Lively's claims for SH aren't strong, and that she did leverage her star power to get credit on the movie she didn't earn. Do Baldoni fans ever admit he has been inappropriate in any way? Is every single woman just lying? That's Lively, Slate, Ferrer, Saks, Hoover, Hall, Ayoub, Plank... they've *all* been bribed by Blake?

Yes, actually lol. Not bribed but it sounds like a bunch of mean girls ganging up. Nothing about that is conspiracy territory. This isn’t uncommon behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can admit Lively's claims for SH aren't strong, and that she did leverage her star power to get credit on the movie she didn't earn. Do Baldoni fans ever admit he has been inappropriate in any way? Is every single woman just lying? That's Lively, Slate, Ferrer, Saks, Hoover, Hall, Ayoub, Plank... they've *all* been bribed by Blake?

I’m not a Baldoni fan. I think he is a jerk and he sounds completely insufferable. That doesn’t mean he deserves for the me too writer at New York Times to have an article about him and's have a $400 million lawsuit, get his name and picture struck from the poster of the movie that he’s spent five years working on, and get banned from the premier. I also don’t think he deserved Ryan Reynolds going to his agent and other influential people in Hollywood saying that he’s a sexual predator.

Come on. This is beyond ridiculous. It is so clear from how this has gone down that they never intended for it to get this far.

It is clear Blake and Ryan turned people against them. We have Paul Feig saying Brandon got the part because Blake got it for him. And then we have Brandon saying Sydney got him the part, so not wanting to be touting his deal with Blake.

We have Blake on Instagram promoting Jenny Slate’s book shortly after the movie. Well, we know Blake‘s not a reader lol.

Blake flew Brandon and Isabel to events on her own dime, style Isabel, and lied to Isabel that Taylor Swift casted her. Also had her for a sleepover.

This is not normal behavior.

[Anonymous]

Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?

Saks didn't say Bloom wasn't experienced. What she said was that she had most recently been working in TV, which has different demands than a film other than pilots because working as a first AD on an existing TV show allows you to come in to an already working set.

That said, I do think Bloom was ultimately put in an impossible position and her firing was a bit of scapegoating. But not for Blake, for Baldoni. He was a weak leader and the production was sloppy and disorganized. With a stronger leader, Bloom likely would have been fine. But because Baldoni was in way of his head AND was trying to direct and act and produce, and because Heath had very limited experience producing movies (mostly smaller, lower budget movies for Wayfarer and they haven't been at it for long), that puts enormous pressure on the 1st AD to pick up the slack. Saks wanted to get rid of Baldoni and Heath, but of course they couldn't because as Ange Gianetti told her, Wayfarer isn't going to fire themselves off their own movie. So instead they replaced Bloom in the hopes of finding a 1st AD who could help overcome Baldoni's and Heath's major deficiencies. That doesn't really reflect that poorly on Bloom.

If I'm Julie Bloom right now, I'm probably grateful to have been kicked off this production given what a total mess it has become. By being fired early on, it's probably limited her legal bill in association with the lawsuit. Also, it will be abundantly clear to anyone in Hollywood that this was a dysfunctional production for reasons that had nothing to do with Bloom. It's like a badge of honor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?

Saks didn't say Bloom wasn't experienced. What she said was that she had most recently been working in TV, which has different demands than a film other than pilots because working as a first AD on an existing TV show allows you to come in to an already working set.

That said, I do think Bloom was ultimately put in an impossible position and her firing was a bit of scapegoating. But not for Blake, for Baldoni. He was a weak leader and the production was sloppy and disorganized. With a stronger leader, Bloom likely would have been fine. But because Baldoni was in way of his head AND was trying to direct and act and produce, and because Heath had very limited experience producing movies (mostly smaller, lower budget movies for Wayfarer and they haven't been at it for long), that puts enormous pressure on the 1st AD to pick up the slack. Saks wanted to get rid of Baldoni and Heath, but of course they couldn't because as Ange Gianetti told her, Wayfarer isn't going to fire themselves off their own movie. So instead they replaced Bloom in the hopes of finding a 1st AD who could help overcome Baldoni's and Heath's major deficiencies. That doesn't really reflect that poorly on Bloom.

If I'm Julie Bloom right now, I'm probably grateful to have been kicked off this production given what a total mess it has become. By being fired early on, it's probably limited her legal bill in association with the lawsuit. Also, it will be abundantly clear to anyone in Hollywood that this was a dysfunctional production for reasons that had nothing to do with Bloom. It's like a badge of honor.

It’s so funny how (1) this particular Blake bot is so easy to identify, and (2) she thinks she is convincing anyone with this blather.

Blake made Ryan “mean girled” their way through the set, and everyone understood that they had to be either with them or against them. Against them meant getting fired, ostracized, and/or sued. With them meant getting help securing future roles (or even instant promotions during the filming), free trips, and free pr for future projects. I don’t think Blake will work again in Hollywood other than films financed by Lively/Reynolds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?

Saks didn't say Bloom wasn't experienced. What she said was that she had most recently been working in TV, which has different demands than a film other than pilots because working as a first AD on an existing TV show allows you to come in to an already working set.

That said, I do think Bloom was ultimately put in an impossible position and her firing was a bit of scapegoating. But not for Blake, for Baldoni. He was a weak leader and the production was sloppy and disorganized. With a stronger leader, Bloom likely would have been fine. But because Baldoni was in way of his head AND was trying to direct and act and produce, and because Heath had very limited experience producing movies (mostly smaller, lower budget movies for Wayfarer and they haven't been at it for long), that puts enormous pressure on the 1st AD to pick up the slack. Saks wanted to get rid of Baldoni and Heath, but of course they couldn't because as Ange Gianetti told her, Wayfarer isn't going to fire themselves off their own movie. So instead they replaced Bloom in the hopes of finding a 1st AD who could help overcome Baldoni's and Heath's major deficiencies. That doesn't really reflect that poorly on Bloom.

If I'm Julie Bloom right now, I'm probably grateful to have been kicked off this production given what a total mess it has become. By being fired early on, it's probably limited her legal bill in association with the lawsuit. Also, it will be abundantly clear to anyone in Hollywood that this was a dysfunctional production for reasons that had nothing to do with Bloom. It's like a badge of honor.

It’s so funny how (1) this particular Blake bot is so easy to identify, and (2) she thinks she is convincing anyone with this blather.

Blake made Ryan “mean girled” their way through the set, and everyone understood that they had to be either with them or against them. Against them meant getting fired, ostracized, and/or sued. With them meant getting help securing future roles (or even instant promotions during the filming), free trips, and free pr for future projects. I don’t think Blake will work again in Hollywood other than films financed by Lively/Reynolds

Blake and Ryan, weird autocorrect. If anything, Ryan made Blake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?

Saks didn't say Bloom wasn't experienced. What she said was that she had most recently been working in TV, which has different demands than a film other than pilots because working as a first AD on an existing TV show allows you to come in to an already working set.

That said, I do think Bloom was ultimately put in an impossible position and her firing was a bit of scapegoating. But not for Blake, for Baldoni. He was a weak leader and the production was sloppy and disorganized. With a stronger leader, Bloom likely would have been fine. But because Baldoni was in way of his head AND was trying to direct and act and produce, and because Heath had very limited experience producing movies (mostly smaller, lower budget movies for Wayfarer and they haven't been at it for long), that puts enormous pressure on the 1st AD to pick up the slack. Saks wanted to get rid of Baldoni and Heath, but of course they couldn't because as Ange Gianetti told her, Wayfarer isn't going to fire themselves off their own movie. So instead they replaced Bloom in the hopes of finding a 1st AD who could help overcome Baldoni's and Heath's major deficiencies. That doesn't really reflect that poorly on Bloom.

If I'm Julie Bloom right now, I'm probably grateful to have been kicked off this production given what a total mess it has become. By being fired early on, it's probably limited her legal bill in association with the lawsuit. Also, it will be abundantly clear to anyone in Hollywood that this was a dysfunctional production for reasons that had nothing to do with Bloom. It's like a badge of honor.

Yea I can read the deposition for myself so I don’t need your moronic interpretation. Alex said she was weak and that yes she didn’t have the experience for a big film. When you can go to Julie Bloom’s page you can see that she was worked on some of the biggest films from the last couple decades, including with A-list actors much much bigger than Z list Blake.

Alex has no credibility after saying that especially looking at her résumé which is much weaker than Julie’s.

And now her words are out there for everyone to see and again I look forward to seeing the impact of this scandal on her career. I have a feeling we won’t be seeing Alex attached to any more films. Maybe Isabel can get her a waitressing job in Brooklyn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can admit Lively's claims for SH aren't strong, and that she did leverage her star power to get credit on the movie she didn't earn. Do Baldoni fans ever admit he has been inappropriate in any way? Is every single woman just lying? That's Lively, Slate, Ferrer, Saks, Hoover, Hall, Ayoub, Plank... they've *all* been bribed by Blake?

Say what?

Jenny Slate accused Justin of sexual harassment? Colleen Hoover? Aside from your fabrication fanfiction, the only one who has ever accused Justin of sexual harassment is Blake Lively.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?

Saks didn't say Bloom wasn't experienced. What she said was that she had most recently been working in TV, which has different demands than a film other than pilots because working as a first AD on an existing TV show allows you to come in to an already working set.

That said, I do think Bloom was ultimately put in an impossible position and her firing was a bit of scapegoating. But not for Blake, for Baldoni. He was a weak leader and the production was sloppy and disorganized. With a stronger leader, Bloom likely would have been fine. But because Baldoni was in way of his head AND was trying to direct and act and produce, and because Heath had very limited experience producing movies (mostly smaller, lower budget movies for Wayfarer and they haven't been at it for long), that puts enormous pressure on the 1st AD to pick up the slack. Saks wanted to get rid of Baldoni and Heath, but of course they couldn't because as Ange Gianetti told her, Wayfarer isn't going to fire themselves off their own movie. So instead they replaced Bloom in the hopes of finding a 1st AD who could help overcome Baldoni's and Heath's major deficiencies. That doesn't really reflect that poorly on Bloom.

If I'm Julie Bloom right now, I'm probably grateful to have been kicked off this production given what a total mess it has become. By being fired early on, it's probably limited her legal bill in association with the lawsuit. Also, it will be abundantly clear to anyone in Hollywood that this was a dysfunctional production for reasons that had nothing to do with Bloom. It's like a badge of honor.

It’s so funny how (1) this particular Blake bot is so easy to identify, and (2) she thinks she is convincing anyone with this blather.

Blake made Ryan “mean girled” their way through the set, and everyone understood that they had to be either with them or against them. Against them meant getting fired, ostracized, and/or sued. With them meant getting help securing future roles (or even instant promotions during the filming), free trips, and free pr for future projects. I don’t think Blake will work again in Hollywood other than films financed by Lively/Reynolds

I see. And will evidence of this theory be forthcoming? Where are the emails between Blake and cast members promising them future roles or other benefits, or threatening them with being fired or ostracized? Where are the depositions with people on set reporting that Blake was a "mean girl" or was manipulating anyone or pitting anyone against Baldoni or Heath?

If anything, evidence points to multiple other women raising issues with Baldoni and Heath prior to Blake's own experiences and way before she started complaining. Alex Saks reports being yelled at by Baldoni during Zoom calls in January and February 2023 (with witnesses, plus Baldoni sent an apology email after one of these incidents in which he states that he has been struggling with interrupting and mansplaining -- his words -- women, yes he said specifically he'd been having this problem with women). Then it was actually Jenny Slate who first reported issues with both Baldoni and Heath, to Saks, which led to Saks reporting it all to Ange Gianetti and requesting that Baldoni and Heath be pulled from the project (which Ange said would never happen since it was Wayfarer's project). And then you have Saks suggesting to Baldoni and Heath, on three separate occasions according to her deposition, that they should do a formal investigation into Slate's complaints, which they decline to do.

And only AFTER all that do Blake's complaints from the first few weeks of shooting come to light. And all of this is supported by contemporaneous emails and texts and corroborated in multiple depositions (from not just Saks, Slate, and Gianetti, but also Baldoni and Heath).

In other words, it seems like Blake merely joined a chorus of voices complaining about Baldoni and Heath. It also sounds like Jenny Slate encouraged Blake to report her concerns to Alex and to Sony, and that before that, Blake had merely been blowing off steam about her bad experiences with Jenny. So if Jenny was the instigator to getting a more formal complaint filed, how could Blake be the one tricking Jenny into joining her with promises of future roles and promotion?