Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

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.

+1 especially when Blake and Ryan actually make the vast majority of their money hawking products and services for businesses they own, not acting. They aren't making art and asking for privacy the way, say, Kiersten Dunst and Jesse Plemmons do. They are begging people to buy Mint Mobile or their alcohol brands and using their fame to push these products (which are reportedly pretty bad). They do (bad) movies occasionally to keep their profile high and then complain about having to do press or get mad when people ask about their kids (who they post about on social media all the time).

I cannot stand them. I think they are both pretty talentless and I think Blake is going to handle it very poorly when she ages enough to no longer be beautiful and her fan base completely abandoned her because their interest was always based on just wanting to follow the popular, pretty girl. I think they've already peaked and 10 years from now it's gonna be sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Posey fixated on Blake, looking at her instead of the interviewer and even stroking the pillow/blanket on Blake’s chair. Plus, Posey literally cringes and rolls her eyes at the interviewer as it wrapped. Did you miss the end of the linked yahoo clip? Posey’s behavior at the very end was appalling.

I agree with your assessment of Blake though. She sounds really defensive and bizarre on her rant about how celebs are more interesting and more awesome IRL than what the stupid media says about them. Weird talking points during a press junket. She’s really not smart.

[Anonymous]

The whole don’t ask me about my clothes and looks etc. seems so ridiculous to me coming from certain actresses, especially Blake lively.

Blake’s whole brand is fashion and beauty. She has a hair care line she has supposedly been working in for the past 7 years according to her. She hosted the Met Gala, and she is widely known for being her own stylist and having a great style. These are all wonderful things, but then when she is ask about anything to do with fashion or beauty and she pushes back - well that is insane.

I would say most actresses… When you go on the red carpet, what are people supposed to ask you about? Of course the work and the role, but let’s not pretend you didn’t spend six hours preparing to look a certain way for that event. Let’s not pretend you don’t have a team of professionals helping you to look that way and that the dress and jewelry and products you’re wearing are worth more than most Americans make in three months in three months.

It’s very condescending to us mere mortals - many of them are there because they look and dress and present themselves in a certain way. If you wanted to be all about the work Get rid of the glitz and glam and make the Oscars an award ceremony and panel discussion and have people show up like they would to a corporate event. I don’t think people want that, which is fine, but let’s not try to have it both ways.

Not talking about the Jodie Fosters and the Meryl Streeps of the world. But Blake lively is not an exception. That poor journalist probably spends less time thinking about her looks in a year then Blake does in 2 days and she’s supposed to be out of line for fixating on beauty or clothing? Okay. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

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.

I get that but this outrage is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

She's not canceled. She will be fine in the end. People are just realizing that she's not nice and selfishly will plug her products in as much as possible

[Anonymous]

This is how you battle a bully, with her own actions and words. Blake is the one who is undoing herself with her nasty remarks. No one is tricking her or forcing her to be mean and unprofessional. This goes back years and continues to this day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

She's not canceled. She will be fine in the end. People are just realizing that she's not nice and selfishly will plug her products in as much as possible

Exactly. Blake and Ryan will be fine and will continue to pump out movies and products. Blake’s hair care line is destined to fail before any of this and maybe will be blamed on this, but it had gotten a lot of criticism already for being sold at target and yet being pretty expensive. It’s just another hair care line - how is it different than Jen Aniston, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

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.

I get that but this outrage is crazy.

Outrage will die down. Hopefully they learn a lesson that they just can’t be everywhere all the time. This couple has gotten way over exposed this year. The new product launches, two big movies, being besties with Taylor Swift. It’s time to take a little break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

She's not canceled. She will be fine in the end. People are just realizing that she's not nice and selfishly will plug her products in as much as possible

She is definitely being cancelled by Gen Z.

[Anonymous]

She made her dumb point when asked about the clothes, by saying men aren't asked the same question. Then she dragged it out to an obnoxious degree, talking to Parker, Ooh the men in their high-waisted pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She made her dumb point when asked about the clothes, by saying men aren't asked the same question. Then she dragged it out to an obnoxious degree, talking to Parker, Ooh the men in their high-waisted pants.

She's an ungracious, tone-deaf idiot, especially because there is nothing sexist about the importance of costume design on a period movie. It was an opportunity to elevate the question by highlighting the costume designer who even ended up being nominated for an award for her work on this movie, and she blew it by making a dumb sexist joke instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

She's not canceled. She will be fine in the end. People are just realizing that she's not nice and selfishly will plug her products in as much as possible

She is definitely being cancelled by Gen Z.

I doubt it. She is BFF with Taylor Swift. Taylor won't allow it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

She's not canceled. She will be fine in the end. People are just realizing that she's not nice and selfishly will plug her products in as much as possible

She is definitely being cancelled by Gen Z.

I doubt it. She is BFF with Taylor Swift. Taylor won't allow it.

Taylor cares mostly about her business. She dropped Karli Kloss like a hot Trump-contaminated potato.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cancellation is over the top.

She's not canceled. She will be fine in the end. People are just realizing that she's not nice and selfishly will plug her products in as much as possible

She is definitely being cancelled by Gen Z.

I doubt it. She is BFF with Taylor Swift. Taylor won't allow it.

Taylor will distance from anyone who threatens her brand and can't be rehabbed by targeted PR.

[Anonymous]

The A listers are smart enough to proactively discuss the costumes and set design and the teams who pull that together. Blake is too dumb or too self-centered to recognize the importance when promoting a movie—as well as when maintaining the optics of being a team player rather than a diva.

I think she’s old enough to know better.