Lively/Baldoni Lawsuit Part 2

[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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

False. Slate had three issues that she reported to Alex Saks in their lunch meeting: (1) Justin referring to her as sexy while on set, (2) Justin recording a meeting with Slate without telling her beforehand, and (3) Heath making a comment about giving Slate a larger housing allowance for the shoot specifically because he wanted to support a young mother.

Baldoni also testified in his own deposition that Slate was one of the cast/crew members who had expressed discomfort with how "huggie" the set was, and Slate was also one of the the cast/crew who reported witnessing both Baldoni and Heath, on various occasions, joking that they "couldn't even look people in the eye" because of the HR rules from Sony that Alex Saks had requested be followed on set specifically out of concerns about the lack of HR guidance/personnel from Wayfarer for the production.

So... no. Slate reported multiple incidents of unwanted touching, recording without consent, and comments that she felt sexualized her or inappropriately emphasized her status as a woman and mother. And she was the first cast member to report issues with either man, and she was the one who encouraged Blake to report her experiences AND she was the one who told Alex Saks to talk to Blake because at that point Slate know that Blake had similar issues with Justin and Heath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Actually, we haven’t seen any of Blakes emails and texts aside from the very few that she cherry picked very early on. We haven’t seen any of her deposition either. Those are going be forthcoming around Christmas. Looking forward to it.

Oh, and I wonder why she asked Taylor to delete all of their texts?

[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.

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.

Don't call people names. Keep it civil. No one here is "moronic."

I don't think it makes sense to compare Bloom and Saks one to one -- they have different roles. Most of Bloom's experience as a 1st AD are from TV shows. I think she also was 1st AD on a straight to streaming film recently. Her work on films has largely been in a 2nd AD role or as a 1st AD on a second unit. What this means is that she may have performed the 1st AD role but for a location shoot only, not on the main production. This means more layers of people above her and less overall responsibility. If Baldoni was a particularly weak director, it is not surprising this might lead to challenges on set because he would need a very strong 1st AD who could pick up his slack.

Saks is a producer and that requires a different skill set. Saks also provided a specific criticism of Bloom's performance that she believed was problematic, which was that Saks believed a 1st AD needs to be hyper communicative especially early in the production and be very on top of every detail of what was happening each day, and Bloom was not. On a TV set, these qualities would be less necessary because a 1st AD might be coming on for only a few episodes with a particular episode director or directors, and will be entering an existing machine with a showrunner and an established crew, sets that are mostly already built and in use, etc. It's a different kind of role.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

False. Slate had three issues that she reported to Alex Saks in their lunch meeting: (1) Justin referring to her as sexy while on set, (2) Justin recording a meeting with Slate without telling her beforehand, and (3) Heath making a comment about giving Slate a larger housing allowance for the shoot specifically because he wanted to support a young mother.

Baldoni also testified in his own deposition that Slate was one of the cast/crew members who had expressed discomfort with how "huggie" the set was, and Slate was also one of the the cast/crew who reported witnessing both Baldoni and Heath, on various occasions, joking that they "couldn't even look people in the eye" because of the HR rules from Sony that Alex Saks had requested be followed on set specifically out of concerns about the lack of HR guidance/personnel from Wayfarer for the production.

So... no. Slate reported multiple incidents of unwanted touching, recording without consent, and comments that she felt sexualized her or inappropriately emphasized her status as a woman and mother. And she was the first cast member to report issues with either man, and she was the one who encouraged Blake to report her experiences AND she was the one who told Alex Saks to talk to Blake because at that point Slate know that Blake had similar issues with Justin and Heath.

This is such a joke. The meeting she was referring to was a Zoom meeting. A lot of of those are just automatically recorded. These people have nothing. We are a year out from this lawsuit and they have nothing. Blake is hemorrhaging followers and has no upcoming roles. Three of Ryan’s upcoming films have been killed as well. And no more girl dinners or chiefs games with Tay Tay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Actually, we haven’t seen any of Blakes emails and texts aside from the very few that she cherry picked very early on. We haven’t seen any of her deposition either. Those are going be forthcoming around Christmas. Looking forward to it.

Oh, and I wonder why she asked Taylor to delete all of their texts?

I wasn't talking about Blake, I was talking about Slate, Saks, Gianetti. And yes we have depositions and emails/texts from them showing that they had issues with Baldoni and Heath before Blake even came forward with her complaints, and there is evidence that the only reason Blake come forward with those complaints was at the urging of Jenny Slate and Alex Saks, who had independent reasons to be very concerned about Baldoni and Heath. This totally undercuts the theory that Blake was "mean-girling" her way through the production and that she used her star power to intimidate or coerce other women on set to align against Baldoni and Heath. It appears to be the opposite -- the was just quietly complaining about issues to friends and one costar, but that costar and a female producer had other bad experience and started initiating a more formal complaint process that Blake was brought into.

There is zero evidence that Lively asked Taylor to delete texts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

False. Slate had three issues that she reported to Alex Saks in their lunch meeting: (1) Justin referring to her as sexy while on set, (2) Justin recording a meeting with Slate without telling her beforehand, and (3) Heath making a comment about giving Slate a larger housing allowance for the shoot specifically because he wanted to support a young mother.

Baldoni also testified in his own deposition that Slate was one of the cast/crew members who had expressed discomfort with how "huggie" the set was, and Slate was also one of the the cast/crew who reported witnessing both Baldoni and Heath, on various occasions, joking that they "couldn't even look people in the eye" because of the HR rules from Sony that Alex Saks had requested be followed on set specifically out of concerns about the lack of HR guidance/personnel from Wayfarer for the production.

So... no. Slate reported multiple incidents of unwanted touching, recording without consent, and comments that she felt sexualized her or inappropriately emphasized her status as a woman and mother. And she was the first cast member to report issues with either man, and she was the one who encouraged Blake to report her experiences AND she was the one who told Alex Saks to talk to Blake because at that point Slate know that Blake had similar issues with Justin and Heath.

This is such a joke. The meeting she was referring to was a Zoom meeting. A lot of of those are just automatically recorded. These people have nothing. We are a year out from this lawsuit and they have nothing. Blake is hemorrhaging followers and has no upcoming roles. Three of Ryan’s upcoming films have been killed as well. And no more girl dinners or chiefs games with Tay Tay.

Then point is not whether you personally have a problem with someone recording your Zoom call. We also have no idea what was discussed on that call. The point is that Jenny Slate had a series of negative interactions with Baldoni before Blake even made her first complaint, including feeling it was inappropriate for him to record that call without her advance consent.

Slate's other allegations toward Baldoni involve him calling her sexy on set, and what she described as a "huggie" and overly touchy culture that made her uncomfortable. It's also possible that you would be more sensitive to being recorded by someone who you believed to be boundary violating in other ways.

They definitely do not have "nothing."

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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.

False. Slate had three issues that she reported to Alex Saks in their lunch meeting: (1) Justin referring to her as sexy while on set, (2) Justin recording a meeting with Slate without telling her beforehand, and (3) Heath making a comment about giving Slate a larger housing allowance for the shoot specifically because he wanted to support a young mother.

Baldoni also testified in his own deposition that Slate was one of the cast/crew members who had expressed discomfort with how "huggie" the set was, and Slate was also one of the the cast/crew who reported witnessing both Baldoni and Heath, on various occasions, joking that they "couldn't even look people in the eye" because of the HR rules from Sony that Alex Saks had requested be followed on set specifically out of concerns about the lack of HR guidance/personnel from Wayfarer for the production.

So... no. Slate reported multiple incidents of unwanted touching, recording without consent, and comments that she felt sexualized her or inappropriately emphasized her status as a woman and mother. And she was the first cast member to report issues with either man, and she was the one who encouraged Blake to report her experiences AND she was the one who told Alex Saks to talk to Blake because at that point Slate know that Blake had similar issues with Justin and Heath.

This is such a joke. The meeting she was referring to was a Zoom meeting. A lot of of those are just automatically recorded. These people have nothing. We are a year out from this lawsuit and they have nothing. Blake is hemorrhaging followers and has no upcoming roles. Three of Ryan’s upcoming films have been killed as well. And no more girl dinners or chiefs games with Tay Tay.

Then point is not whether you personally have a problem with someone recording your Zoom call. We also have no idea what was discussed on that call. The point is that Jenny Slate had a series of negative interactions with Baldoni before Blake even made her first complaint, including feeling it was inappropriate for him to record that call without her advance consent.

Slate's other allegations toward Baldoni involve him calling her sexy on set, and what she described as a "huggie" and overly touchy culture that made her uncomfortable. It's also possible that you would be more sensitive to being recorded by someone who you believed to be boundary violating in other ways.

They definitely do not have "nothing."

Dp, but have to agree that there is zero here. Firstly, Blake is the only plaintiff, it’s not a class action or multiple plaintiff case. Second, not being happy a zoom call is taped or with a comment made by your boss about a generous perk you were given to make your family more comfortable is not remotely sexual harasssment. There is so little here that Blake is reduced to trying to make something people raising their voices. It’s ridiculous and embarrassing that anyone can use the legal system to harass someone over so little. That’s without even addressing that she did defame him in a national publication. It’s all disgusting on her part and Slade.

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It is moronic suggest that something didn’t happen if it wasn’t in an email. I would think Ryan, if not Blake, is smart enough to not put a quid pro quo offer in writing. It is undeniable that every one who is Team Blake received something of value from Blake and Ryan — whether it was a promotion, publicity, free trips or help getting subsequent roles/jobs.

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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.

Agree, the argument that Bloom was “just tv” is inconsistent with actual facts, which is how the Blake bot operates.

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I'm curious why Blake is only just now bringing up that circumcision discussion (that she likely instigated).

Was she fishing around in her memory for anything potentially inappropriate that she could raise for PR brownie points?