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Why is Blake Lively so overrated?
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Anonymous
LOL this, not exactly a hardship! |
Anonymous
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I thought it was rude for the journalist to congratulate her on her “bump” and then to ask about clothes.
She would not talk like that to a man. |
Anonymous
+1 An interview about your Woody Allen movie is the wrong place to take a supercilious stance on feminism. |
Anonymous
PP you are responding to. I don’t care what the journalist titled the clip. My point was that the journalist is very thin skinned if she found the subjects of that interview any more than slightly annoying. The journalist did a terrible job in the interview, she completely let the subjects take control and she barely asked a question and did not try to redirect them. BL’s response to the bump comment is a nothingburger, she was probably sick of people asking about her bump. And that was a legit response to the opening question to 2 women about the movie being about costumes. In BL’s and PP’s shoes I’d have eye rolled after that poor interview, too. I suspect most people who are yelling “mean girl” after watching the clip are millenial or younger, and anyone gen x or boomer will understand why I say that … |
Anonymous
She’s famous for Gossip Girl…a bad (yet popular) tv show from a million years ago. She hasn’t done anything truly noteworthy since. She’s had some roles that were forgettable and that any other actress could have done. I truly believe that her hair and body have carried her throughout her “career” because her acting certainly hasn’t. She comes across as a smug, pretentious jerk who is trying to make everyone believe she is laid back, down to earth, and sweet. Her husband is the same way (although he has charisma and charm that she lacks). Anyway, where is this new movie streaming? |
Anonymous
| Gen Xer who thinks Blake behaved like a nasty and condescending person in that interview. Who knows why. Parker seemed like she was on something. |
Anonymous
I’m Gen X but I haven’t watched the interview clip yet. Regardless, I’m baffled as to how anyone from Hollywood doesn’t realize you must bring your A game to every interview and taped event. Heck, celebs need to be perky and polished when they go to the airport or grocery store. When you opt for a career as a “celebrity,” you should realize that your public persona is your brand…and the goal is to convince people that your brand is awesome. It’s business. So a smart person smiles and graciously answers even the most annoying or stupid questions. #duh Maybe she’s just a spoiled jerk? Maybe she’s too dumb to realize the importance of being (or acting) nice? I think she could learn something from Jen Garner. |
Anonymous
Blake and Ryan had formally announced the pregnancy. Totally appropriate for her to congratulate her before the interview started. Blake should’ve just said thanks and moved on. The movie was light and a period piece - Blake is a fashion icon. Of course it was appropriate to ask about the costuming. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I don’t think it was a generational thing. Also, Gen X and thought it was a really bad interview for Blake. Does it mean she should be canceled and never work in this town again? No. But definitely see why it is tarnishing her image. Makes me want to take a break from her - if they were smart they would chill out on appearances and banter and their daily pap walks for a bit now that their movies are out. Should be easy, once opening weekend hits the marking typically dies down. |
Anonymous
As a celebrity she dresses in fancy wild outfits in public to get her picture taken by the paparazzi and advance her career. I can’t stand these pretentious nitwits. Anyone remember when her try hard lifestyle blog was cancelled after allegedly glamorizing the antebellum south? |
Anonymous
Where does this billionaire rumor come from? I just googled and looks like he’s worth about $350 million. I mean that’s a lot of money but he’s not a billionaire. He sold his company for $1 billion but he doesn’t get all that lol that was just the price of the company, other investors and people had stake in it and of course the team negotiating and doing the deal gets a huge cut as well. |
Anonymous
| This cancellation is over the top. |
Anonymous
Just watched the interview and came back to say both actresses are obviously a-holes. Talk about mean girl, self-important behavior! PP literally rolls her eyes as the interview wraps. They seemed to go into the interview with an attitude and it looks like they planned to ignore the interviewer and just talk to each other about nonsense to make a point (at best) or simply amuse themselves. Who knew PP really is her character from Best in Show in real life?!?! But I think everyone could predict that BL was a jerk in real life. Not surprised. |
Anonymous
I’m totally against cancel culture, but… Nobody is entitled to be universally liked or adored, and nobody is entitled to be a successful working actor or popular celebrity. If people think you are a jerk, then why would they like you? There’s a reason celebs have PR people. |
Anonymous
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Another Gen Xer who found Lively's behavior in that interview very cringey and unprofessional.
I actually think Posey spent the entire interview trying to get it back on track and redirect her answers back at the interviewer while Lively insisted (childishly) on directing all her responses at Posey. Posey also tried to break the tension at the beginning with a joke (getting up and asking about "her bump" while counting at her own butt) that also took attention off Lively. It was a generous effort to move things on and let everyone save face. Lively INSISTED on making the entire interview about what she believed was an overstep by the interviewer at the beginning and qrefused to just let it be a normal fluff piece promotional interview. Instead it's all about Lively and her offense over something that wasn't even offensive. Also Lively spends the entire interview making all these passive aggressive points about how celebrities are people and you shouldn't assume things about them or believe what you read about them in the press. But what struck me as she was saying this was how she was doing exactly the thing she's complaining about to the journalist. Who is this journalist? She a Norwegian entertainment reporter who appears to be at least a decade older than Lively trying to do her job. Is there any empathy from Lively about this? Not a stitch. Lively acts like she's doing this interview under duress. Girl, this is part of you contract. Do your job. Lively comes off as a petulant mean girl who is using her fame and the fact that she and Posey are famous actresses to "punish" an outsider (foreign, older, not a celeb or one of the "beautiful people") for making a faux pas that the journalist could not possibly known was inappropriate. It honestly made me mad watching it. The women I know who behave that way are, yes, "mean girls" -- they use their social leverage to enforce strict hierarchies and that's exactly what Lively is doing there. She making it clear that this woman is not a part of her club and therefore is not allowed to comment on her *publicly announced* pregnancy (in a friendly and congratulatory way!). And Posey doesn't come off as mean to me. I think she's trying to salvage it and that her eye roll at the end is as much about having to deal with her drama queen cast mate as it is frustration with Amy questions the interviewer asked. |