Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

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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.

Oh really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 Whether they are genuine or not, they thank and praise the whole cast, crew and production. And are respectful to the journalists who are also just doing their job.

[Anonymous]

She is def canceled with GenZ. Just take a look at TikTok. She may be able to redeem herself but it will take admitting fault and owning it before that can happen.

[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.

I appreciated Posey's attempt at defusing the bump situation, but I feel like she spent most of the interview clearly trying to curry favor with Lively. Most people wouldn't consider her a famous actress, and I've never heard of her before this. She seemed like she was trying too hard to fit in with the popular kids in Hollywood by acting like Lively's loyal sidekick. That said, Parker was in a tough spot of attempting to respond to the interviewer while at the same time buddying up to Lively. You can tell she was stressed by the way she kept anxiously stroking the furry throw on Lively's seat. It sucks that she was dragged into this situation when it was mostly Lively's behavior that was problematic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is def canceled with GenZ. Just take a look at TikTok. She may be able to redeem herself but it will take admitting fault and owning it before that can happen.

She's probably cancelled with Millennials and GenX too, since most moms in those generations have a permanent "little bump" after having kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She is def canceled with GenZ. Just take a look at TikTok. She may be able to redeem herself but it will take admitting fault and owning it before that can happen.

She's probably cancelled with Millennials and GenX too, since most moms in those generations have a permanent "little bump" after having kids.

Maybe she'll apologize again and people will forget about this too just like her plantation wedding and joke about Kate Middletons photoshop.

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I dunno, as a video editor myself, I wonder how much of that was edited down to appear worse than what it was.

The video is only 4 minutes long - is that how long the interview was? Or did they cut out 26 minutes that were perfectly fine?

Was there already a joke in place about bumps beforehand? Was the rambling all cut together to make it seems like a much longer ramble than it was?

Also a lot of Kuleshov effect going on (where they cut to the interviewer who has a fairly neutral expression but looks annoyed because of the context of the rambling audio laid overtop.

The eye roll - that could have come from anywhere in the interview, in a completely different context. Also I can tell the eye roll has been slowed down for dramatic effect.

The thumbnail for the YouTube video has a shot of Blake looking extremely obnoxious, which already sets in your mind that she's going to be rude.

I'm curious if the raw footage exists. I'm kinda tempted to take the current footage and see if I can cut it so they all look like BFFs.

[Anonymous]

Why are there so many Blake Lively posts?


It’s kind of weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many Blake Lively posts?


It’s kind of weird.

Because she and her husband have ganged up on a less-powerful Hollywood person (Justin Baldoni) in the deluded belief that they are going to get Blake an Oscar nod by turning a movie about domestic violence into a life-affirming chick flick girls night event where women should “wear your florals squeee!!!”

Truly despicable behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many Blake Lively posts?


It’s kind of weird.

Because she and her husband have ganged up on a less-powerful Hollywood person (Justin Baldoni) in the deluded belief that they are going to get Blake an Oscar nod by turning a movie about domestic violence into a life-affirming chick flick girls night event where women should “wear your florals squeee!!!”

Truly despicable behavior.

Go outside and calm down? You’ve Interneted too much today.

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Her response to the interview backlash is even ruder!! She doubled down instead of just apologizing and moving on


https://people.com/blake-lively-faces-backlash-over-uncomfortable-2016-interview-source-defends-her-8695787

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her response to the interview backlash is even ruder!! She doubled down instead of just apologizing and moving on


https://people.com/blake-lively-faces-backlash-over-uncomfortable-2016-interview-source-defends-her-8695787

Usually people do congratulate pregnant women, in the workplace as well if the pregnancy is known, which I am sure was the case here. What's not normal is responding to congratulations so rudely instead of "thanks" and moving on if you don't wish to discuss.

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I don’t know why BL is in the news right now. I keep seeing pictures of her but don’t care enough to click on any of the articles. I find her so unattractive though, which confuses me because all the parts are fine and she has particularly nice hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is def canceled with GenZ. Just take a look at TikTok. She may be able to redeem herself but it will take admitting fault and owning it before that can happen.

She's probably cancelled with Millennials and GenX too, since most moms in those generations have a permanent "little bump" after having kids.

Maybe she'll apologize again and people will forget about this too just like her plantation wedding and joke about Kate Middletons photoshop.

I don't know, she's part of the Taylor Swift posse and they seem to think they are the coolest old f's around and everyone wants to be like them. I would not usually say this, but her gorgeous husband needs to get her out of the spotlight and have her spend some time at home with her four children. She could use that as an excuse to lay low after issuing a humble apology and needing sometime for self reflection and to be a better person as a role model for her children and others. She's a mean girl deep inside, used to be fawned over and I'm sure she truly could care less about what I think, she'll just wrap her celebrity friends around her and survive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there so many Blake Lively posts?


It’s kind of weird.

Because she and her husband have ganged up on a less-powerful Hollywood person (Justin Baldoni) in the deluded belief that they are going to get Blake an Oscar nod by turning a movie about domestic violence into a life-affirming chick flick girls night event where women should “wear your florals squeee!!!”

Truly despicable behavior.

Go outside and calm down? You’ve Interneted too much today.

This is funny!