Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

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Anonymous wrote:I want to talk about the consensual workplace flirting between Blake and Justin.

I don’t think he was flirting at all. I’m not sure she was - I think she’s needy, desperately unprofessional, and has no boundaries. But I don’t think either necessarily wanted the other and certainly don’t think they had an affair. Baldoni’s comms in the timeline show that he thought she was an erratic immature pain in the as$ and that the producers and Sony thought so, too.

If he was flirting with Blake, then he was also flirting with Ryan. I think what you’re interpreting as flirting is actually him talking to a person like they’re 5.

Ryan’s text to him was super weird.

DP. Exactly. RR (and BL) were the ones texting utterly bizarre things. "I adore you, Justin." (RR)

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Anonymous wrote:I want to talk about the consensual workplace flirting between Blake and Justin.

I don’t think he was flirting at all. I’m not sure she was - I think she’s needy, desperately unprofessional, and has no boundaries. But I don’t think either necessarily wanted the other and certainly don’t think they had an affair. Baldoni’s comms in the timeline show that he thought she was an erratic immature pain in the as$ and that the producers and Sony thought so, too.

If he was flirting with Blake, then he was also flirting with Ryan. I think what you’re interpreting as flirting is actually him talking to a person like they’re 5.

Ryan’s text to him was super weird.

DP. Exactly. RR (and BL) were the ones texting utterly bizarre things. "I adore you, Justin." (RR)

Don’t forget RR’s describing his perineum.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why he asked about the weight. If you have a back injury, a few pounds either way isn't going to change lifting someone up. He knew she was post partum and they could estimate her weight from looking at her.

I think he asked more due to his body dysmorphia and issues and wanting to know her exact weight.

Agree with this. He definitely wasn't trying to "fat shame" her. However, I think this is a good example of where he is tone deaf and handles things poorly, and hit backfires HUGELY because Lively is highly reactive.

Asking the trainer what Lively's weight was... that was just stupid. Like unacceptably stupid. Again, I don't think he was trying to harass her or shame her or anything. I just think he was being an idiot and not getting what a radioactive violation of her privacy that would be especially with her just coming back from having a baby and clearly being in a sensitive place regarding her weight.

The stuff about him recommending a "weight loss specialist" is silly and I don't agree with her at all that that's what he was doing. But I also thin it all links back to him doing this dumb thing and asking her trainer for her weight.

He and Heath both do stuff like this throughout the production -- just idiotic transgressions that I truly don't believe were intentionally harassing but even just taken in isolation, I'm like "what? who does that?" Telling a mother of four what is normal during childbirth? Walking in on a woman who is topless in a trailer (even if you think she might be "cool" with it, this is just a dumb thing to do and someone with more sense would be like "oh excuse me I'll wait outside")? Talking about porn and asking lots of questions about porn (yes, even in the context of the movie -- this is a hot button topic and especially when you are talking to someone you know offends easily)?

If there was a cause of action that was "accidental harassment via stupidity and lack of self-awareness," I think this two would be guilty of it.

What’s also inappropriate is talking about perineums, talking about anuses and suppositories, making comments about “using no teeth” etc. She and her husband are also stupid.

Agreed.
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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why he asked about the weight. If you have a back injury, a few pounds either way isn't going to change lifting someone up. He knew she was post partum and they could estimate her weight from looking at her.

I think he asked more due to his body dysmorphia and issues and wanting to know her exact weight.

Agree with this. He definitely wasn't trying to "fat shame" her. However, I think this is a good example of where he is tone deaf and handles things poorly, and hit backfires HUGELY because Lively is highly reactive.

Asking the trainer what Lively's weight was... that was just stupid. Like unacceptably stupid. Again, I don't think he was trying to harass her or shame her or anything. I just think he was being an idiot and not getting what a radioactive violation of her privacy that would be especially with her just coming back from having a baby and clearly being in a sensitive place regarding her weight.

The stuff about him recommending a "weight loss specialist" is silly and I don't agree with her at all that that's what he was doing. But I also thin it all links back to him doing this dumb thing and asking her trainer for her weight.

He and Heath both do stuff like this throughout the production -- just idiotic transgressions that I truly don't believe were intentionally harassing but even just taken in isolation, I'm like "what? who does that?" Telling a mother of four what is normal during childbirth? Walking in on a woman who is topless in a trailer (even if you think she might be "cool" with it, this is just a dumb thing to do and someone with more sense would be like "oh excuse me I'll wait outside")? Talking about porn and asking lots of questions about porn (yes, even in the context of the movie -- this is a hot button topic and especially when you are talking to someone you know offends easily)?

If there was a cause of action that was "accidental harassment via stupidity and lack of self-awareness," I think this two would be guilty of it.

What’s also inappropriate is talking about perineums, talking about anuses and suppositories, making comments about “using no teeth” etc. She and her husband are also stupid.

Agreed.
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And all of this is in WRITING.

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If Justin Baldoni was the director of this movie, why was Blake Lively calling the shots?

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder whether when all of this is over whether Baldoni will go back to a public facing feminist role, or whether he will naturally make a hard right turn that sometimes happens when the feminism was fake to begin with. Kind of like Milo Yannapolis, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand and their ilk — initially gained attention for being male feminists and then sh!t got real.

Maybe this has changed his view on feminism. He’s gotten totally screwed over with false allegations.

Alternatively, maybe Big Man got called on some of his sexist bullish!t and harassment such as insisting on sex scenes and nudity from a costar who hadn’t signed up for that, and maybe mentally he just couldn’t cope with that when he had built his entire public image on being a male feminist who supported women. Seems like that story was coming crashing down. So I wonder whether he will try to rebuild it if he sincerely believes that way, or if he will go the other way if it was never really heartfelt but kinda just a prop from the start to get attention.

Justin Baldoni is currently winning the PR war because it looks like he worked for years on the film and then Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds tried to take over his project. Blake and Ryan look like bullies as a result and they are taking a bigger hit reputation wise. Ryan, especially, comes off like a control freak.

Or just maybe he is winning part of the PR war because he hired people to lie and plant stories on his behalf, same way Johnny Depp destroyed Heard. Maybe Baldoni is actually an anxious, indecisive fake feminist who was in way over his head and never should have been both directing in and starring in a film requiring him to handle high pressure situations that he didn’t have enough brainpower or emotional intelligence to deal with. That’s a possibility, too.

I am going to assume that most professional actors have PR reps. I don't see why that's so scandalous. Blake has PR too and I am sure they are busy.

In the end Blake is done in to some degree by her own weird text messages to Baldoni. If you were really so repulsed by the harrassment you experienced you would not be sending after hours flirty texts to the harrasser. And I don't care about he said/she said PR from Hollywood agents. Hollywood PR folk are mostly bubbleheads. I have read the texts on Baldoni's site snd Blake sure did not seem to feel harrassed if the texts are any indication.

This, exactly. I didn't really have any opinion on Blake Lively / Ryan Reynolds before all of this, and I had never heard of Justin Baldoni. But anyone reading those bizarre and inappropriate texts would immediately conclude that BL/RR were stepping WAY over the line of propriety and JB was trying to keep it more or less professional. That's all I'm going by - those texts. And the video of them dancing where she insisted he was sexually harassing him, and it turns out there was nothing like that happening.

I do wonder how Jamey Heath (someone else I had never heard of) responded to the claims that he entered BL's trailer while she was topless and then didn't leave? Can anyone summarize that so I don't have wade through this thread to find out? TIA!

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Anonymous wrote:If you are crying over a back injury and then have to lift someone up and have MEDICAL restrictions it is completely appropriate to ask for someone’s weight.

But asking her trainer behind her back was very much the wrong way to go about it. Like just think.

He should have worked with a stunt coordinator who could have figured out if it was safe for him to lift her without that kind invasion of privacy, or just reworked the scene so he didn't lift her. He was the director, not just an actor on the movie, so the solutions available to him were actually pretty extensive.

To be clear, I don't think asking her trainer about her weight was harassment. I just think it was an incredibly stupid way to handle that situation.

It was the perfect way, because he did not want to upset Blake by asking her directly. But go off on one of your four paragraph diatribes, please.

No and I say this trying to be helpful: if you are ever in a situation where you have to lift a woman (or anyone actually) for work and you are unsure if you can do so safely, the answer is never "I will go and ask this person's trainer/physician/dietician/assistant what they weigh." It's not a smart way to handle that, it comes off as very invasive. A lot of people are self-conscious about their weight and would be very uncomfortable having it discussed in that way.

I'm a woman and would have no issue with this whatsoever. He's clearly trying to not upset her by talking about her weight with her directly.

Well I'm a former employment lawyer and I would advise against it because it is precisely it's precisely the kind of thing that upsets people and exposes you to litigation. My advice to any employer or professional would be that if there is a touchy topic like this, you should (1) see if you can solve the problem without obtaining the personal information at all, or if that is not possible (2) go through a system where it is not you, personally, asking the question, but it's going through some kind de-personalized process that you can stay at arms length from. Like in this case I would have suggested hiring a stunt coordinator to choreograph the lift and work separately with both actors, and the stunt coordinator could have had Lively directly disclose her weight in a confidential way and then the coordinator can make an assessment about the safety of the lift (or change it to make it safer) based on that info, without ever disclosing the sensitive info.

Asking behind her back was a dumb move and he should have recognized that. I have seen managers do similar things regarding personal info like an employees physical or mental health condition, family status, etc., and it can go south very quickly.

Oh please. This is part of her job. the same as having to know her dress size for costuming.

Yes but the way you find out an actor's size for costumes is not by going behind their back to their stylist and asking like it's some shameful secret that you need to get on the sly.

You call the actor in for a fitting and make sure everyone involved is professional and discrete. The end.

Baldoni should have just had a stunt coordinator work with them if he was worried about it. TBH it sounds like the limiting factor here was Baldoni's injury and back issues, not Lively's weight. He could have just talked to his doctor and ballparked her weight without asking anyone and gotten the advice he needed.

That’s the equivalent of saying the costume department shouldn’t know her size. come on.

Costume departments don't find out actors' sizes by calling their trainers. They have then come to fittings.

Blake insisted on using her own clothes hence the subsequent public mocking which infuriated her.

Yep. She big upped Magnolia Pearl as a good line of clothing, bragged about borrowing stuff from Gigi Hadid, and spent serious cash on Louboutins to give bloated aging Holly Hobbie on screen. Choices were made.

Oh wow - these clothes are hideous!
DP
https://magnoliapearl.com/

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder whether when all of this is over whether Baldoni will go back to a public facing feminist role, or whether he will naturally make a hard right turn that sometimes happens when the feminism was fake to begin with. Kind of like Milo Yannapolis, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand and their ilk — initially gained attention for being male feminists and then sh!t got real.

Maybe this has changed his view on feminism. He’s gotten totally screwed over with false allegations.

Alternatively, maybe Big Man got called on some of his sexist bullish!t and harassment such as insisting on sex scenes and nudity from a costar who hadn’t signed up for that, and maybe mentally he just couldn’t cope with that when he had built his entire public image on being a male feminist who supported women. Seems like that story was coming crashing down. So I wonder whether he will try to rebuild it if he sincerely believes that way, or if he will go the other way if it was never really heartfelt but kinda just a prop from the start to get attention.

Justin Baldoni is currently winning the PR war because it looks like he worked for years on the film and then Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds tried to take over his project. Blake and Ryan look like bullies as a result and they are taking a bigger hit reputation wise. Ryan, especially, comes off like a control freak.

Or just maybe he is winning part of the PR war because he hired people to lie and plant stories on his behalf, same way Johnny Depp destroyed Heard. Maybe Baldoni is actually an anxious, indecisive fake feminist who was in way over his head and never should have been both directing in and starring in a film requiring him to handle high pressure situations that he didn’t have enough brainpower or emotional intelligence to deal with. That’s a possibility, too.

I am going to assume that most professional actors have PR reps. I don't see why that's so scandalous. Blake has PR too and I am sure they are busy.

In the end Blake is done in to some degree by her own weird text messages to Baldoni. If you were really so repulsed by the harrassment you experienced you would not be sending after hours flirty texts to the harrasser. And I don't care about he said/she said PR from Hollywood agents. Hollywood PR folk are mostly bubbleheads. I have read the texts on Baldoni's site snd Blake sure did not seem to feel harrassed if the texts are any indication.

As prior pages have noted, though, if Baldoni didn’t do anything wrong, and if he actually were a feminist as he professed, there would be no need for him to hire to hire the PR team that destroyed Heard with with planted untrue stories etc. He’d be appalled by the idea of that. But actually as his texts show he doubled down and was very interested in a PR approach that could destroy a woman by by surrounding her with negative press.

There are lots of extremely competent PR firms in LA. But he chose this one, specifically. Hmmm.

DP. You mean the exact way BL and RR did to him FIRST?? He's supposed to just let them railroad him with fake accusations and do nothing to defend himself or fight back? Spare us all!

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Anonymous wrote:If you are crying over a back injury and then have to lift someone up and have MEDICAL restrictions it is completely appropriate to ask for someone’s weight.

But asking her trainer behind her back was very much the wrong way to go about it. Like just think.

He should have worked with a stunt coordinator who could have figured out if it was safe for him to lift her without that kind invasion of privacy, or just reworked the scene so he didn't lift her. He was the director, not just an actor on the movie, so the solutions available to him were actually pretty extensive.

To be clear, I don't think asking her trainer about her weight was harassment. I just think it was an incredibly stupid way to handle that situation.

It was the perfect way, because he did not want to upset Blake by asking her directly. But go off on one of your four paragraph diatribes, please.

No and I say this trying to be helpful: if you are ever in a situation where you have to lift a woman (or anyone actually) for work and you are unsure if you can do so safely, the answer is never "I will go and ask this person's trainer/physician/dietician/assistant what they weigh." It's not a smart way to handle that, it comes off as very invasive. A lot of people are self-conscious about their weight and would be very uncomfortable having it discussed in that way.

I'm a woman and would have no issue with this whatsoever. He's clearly trying to not upset her by talking about her weight with her directly.

Well I'm a former employment lawyer and I would advise against it because it is precisely it's precisely the kind of thing that upsets people and exposes you to litigation. My advice to any employer or professional would be that if there is a touchy topic like this, you should (1) see if you can solve the problem without obtaining the personal information at all, or if that is not possible (2) go through a system where it is not you, personally, asking the question, but it's going through some kind de-personalized process that you can stay at arms length from. Like in this case I would have suggested hiring a stunt coordinator to choreograph the lift and work separately with both actors, and the stunt coordinator could have had Lively directly disclose her weight in a confidential way and then the coordinator can make an assessment about the safety of the lift (or change it to make it safer) based on that info, without ever disclosing the sensitive info.

Asking behind her back was a dumb move and he should have recognized that. I have seen managers do similar things regarding personal info like an employees physical or mental health condition, family status, etc., and it can go south very quickly.

Oh please. This is part of her job. the same as having to know her dress size for costuming.

Yes but the way you find out an actor's size for costumes is not by going behind their back to their stylist and asking like it's some shameful secret that you need to get on the sly.

You call the actor in for a fitting and make sure everyone involved is professional and discrete. The end.

Baldoni should have just had a stunt coordinator work with them if he was worried about it. TBH it sounds like the limiting factor here was Baldoni's injury and back issues, not Lively's weight. He could have just talked to his doctor and ballparked her weight without asking anyone and gotten the advice he needed.

That’s the equivalent of saying the costume department shouldn’t know her size. come on.

Costume departments don't find out actors' sizes by calling their trainers. They have then come to fittings.

Blake insisted on using her own clothes hence the subsequent public mocking which infuriated her.

Yep. She big upped Magnolia Pearl as a good line of clothing, bragged about borrowing stuff from Gigi Hadid, and spent serious cash on Louboutins to give bloated aging Holly Hobbie on screen. Choices were made.

Oh wow - these clothes are hideous!
DP
https://magnoliapearl.com/

Like in the movie, the models are wearing like 5 oversize layers of clothing. Bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious what people think of this: the judge in this case, Lewis Liman, is the brother of director Doug Liman, who made The Bourne Identity, the Edge of Tomorrow, and a bunch of other movies. A major director who has worked with very high level talent. (Their dad was a pretty prominent attorney who worked at Paul Weiss, for those interested).

Anyway, curious if having a brother directing at that level will give Judge Liman and unusually strong insight into how filmmaking works that could help, or potentially bias him, in this case. I tend to think it can only help because my perception is that many people (myself included) have biased layman's perspectives on how movies work and especially the behind the scenes stuff with contracts, power dynamics, etc. I would also assume that Judge Liman will also be less fazed than others might be about the celebrity of it all -- neither impressed or intimidated by it, which should help.

Interesting.
For those old enough to get the reference….at least he won’t be a starstruck Lance Ito!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think a real feminist would actually hire the e same PR firm that destroyed Amber Heard. There are so very many available PR firms. Why would he specifically want the same one unless it was to basically accomplish the same destruction of a woman. I have some trouble lining that up with my idea of what a feminist is. I guess I’ll just have to work harder on reconciling that.

Ummmm maybe because these kinds of cases are super expensive and you dont want to waste your money on an attorney who doesn’t have a proven track record in this area.
And the lies that Heard told and her pathology definitely have some parallels in this case.
Feminism doesn’t mean protect women who are doing evil. It sometimes has to mean exposing fakes so that other women don’t fall prey. As someone else pointed out, the film already had a female screenwriter. She can’t have been too happy to learn that RR rewrite her rooftop scene and BL passed it off as her work. JB is doing all women a favor by exposing this deception and behind-the-scenes strong-arming.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder whether when all of this is over whether Baldoni will go back to a public facing feminist role, or whether he will naturally make a hard right turn that sometimes happens when the feminism was fake to begin with. Kind of like Milo Yannapolis, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand and their ilk — initially gained attention for being male feminists and then sh!t got real.

Maybe this has changed his view on feminism. He’s gotten totally screwed over with false allegations.

Alternatively, maybe Big Man got called on some of his sexist bullish!t and harassment such as insisting on sex scenes and nudity from a costar who hadn’t signed up for that, and maybe mentally he just couldn’t cope with that when he had built his entire public image on being a male feminist who supported women. Seems like that story was coming crashing down. So I wonder whether he will try to rebuild it if he sincerely believes that way, or if he will go the other way if it was never really heartfelt but kinda just a prop from the start to get attention.

Justin Baldoni is currently winning the PR war because it looks like he worked for years on the film and then Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds tried to take over his project. Blake and Ryan look like bullies as a result and they are taking a bigger hit reputation wise. Ryan, especially, comes off like a control freak.

Or just maybe he is winning part of the PR war because he hired people to lie and plant stories on his behalf, same way Johnny Depp destroyed Heard. Maybe Baldoni is actually an anxious, indecisive fake feminist who was in way over his head and never should have been both directing in and starring in a film requiring him to handle high pressure situations that he didn’t have enough brainpower or emotional intelligence to deal with. That’s a possibility, too.

Yeah i can't deny how odd it is to see the same thing that happened to Amber happen again. I am going to at least wait to see how Blake responds.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are crying over a back injury and then have to lift someone up and have MEDICAL restrictions it is completely appropriate to ask for someone’s weight.

But asking her trainer behind her back was very much the wrong way to go about it. Like just think.

He should have worked with a stunt coordinator who could have figured out if it was safe for him to lift her without that kind invasion of privacy, or just reworked the scene so he didn't lift her. He was the director, not just an actor on the movie, so the solutions available to him were actually pretty extensive.

To be clear, I don't think asking her trainer about her weight was harassment. I just think it was an incredibly stupid way to handle that situation.

It was the perfect way, because he did not want to upset Blake by asking her directly. But go off on one of your four paragraph diatribes, please.

No and I say this trying to be helpful: if you are ever in a situation where you have to lift a woman (or anyone actually) for work and you are unsure if you can do so safely, the answer is never "I will go and ask this person's trainer/physician/dietician/assistant what they weigh." It's not a smart way to handle that, it comes off as very invasive. A lot of people are self-conscious about their weight and would be very uncomfortable having it discussed in that way.

In the hindsight of what we know now—which is that the trainer then disclosed this to Blake and Ryan, then yes it really wasn’t the best way for him to gtt st this info.
But from JB’s point of view, BL had connected him with this trainer so JB and the trainer had a working relationship. And in the course of discussing his concerns about what his body can/cannot handle, JB asked the trainer if he knew how much BL weighed.
It’s kind of reasonable for JB to expect that the trainer wouldn’t immediately go tattling to BL about that. It’s not like the trainer and JB were just idly gossiping about her weight! It was actually relevant to what he could do in filming and he was mapping it out with the trainer!
She’s a gorgeous woman (which she knows and which JB affirmed many times when she was fishing for compliments via text) but still so insecure that she had to go ballistic about JB discreetly trying to find out this info without asking her directly. Just ridiculous!

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Anonymous wrote:If Justin Baldoni was the director of this movie, why was Blake Lively calling the shots?

It’s a little late in the thread to be this uninformed.
But basically she was love bombing JB from the beginning with flattery and “we are creating somethjng beautiful” talk, and had a plan to insert herself into the move as a producer. She took over wardrobe, flattered her way into “re-writes” for a scene that she wanted to “take a stab at” just to make it “more spicy”….and JB may have allowed it for a bit longer and more than he really wanted to because when you have curated your identity as a “male feminist” then you don’t really want to be accused of shutting out the female lead or of making her unhappy. So essentially he and his team would just try to placate her and when they would give the slightest pushback, she would escalate her antics, and eventually convinced (via coercion) them to let her in the editing room. And then leveraged the writers strike timing and her and RRs relationship with Sony to get more and more control.
It is rumored that RR did a lot of this with Deadpool (basically the same playbook) where you just inch by inch take on a bit more than the acting role for which you are hired, and then once it reaches a certain threshold of involvement with different arenas of filming and production, they have to give you a producer credit. This is why BL was getting herself so involved in wardrobe, dialogue writing, casting, song choice/music, all of it. But she was only hired on as an actress. It was just a massive overstep and her star power was too big to say no without risking offending her.

The biggest unforced error here is that supposedly Wayfarer productions allowed production and filming to start without having an actual SIGNED contract from Blake. So when she started to suggest that she may not promote the film if she didn’t get to edit, they had no leverage. All the leverage was hers.

It certainly does not appear accidental.

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Anonymous wrote:If Justin Baldoni was the director of this movie, why was Blake Lively calling the shots?

It’s a little late in the thread to be this uninformed.
But basically she was love bombing JB from the beginning with flattery and “we are creating somethjng beautiful” talk, and had a plan to insert herself into the move as a producer. She took over wardrobe, flattered her way into “re-writes” for a scene that she wanted to “take a stab at” just to make it “more spicy”….and JB may have allowed it for a bit longer and more than he really wanted to because when you have curated your identity as a “male feminist” then you don’t really want to be accused of shutting out the female lead or of making her unhappy. So essentially he and his team would just try to placate her and when they would give the slightest pushback, she would escalate her antics, and eventually convinced (via coercion) them to let her in the editing room. And then leveraged the writers strike timing and her and RRs relationship with Sony to get more and more control.
It is rumored that RR did a lot of this with Deadpool (basically the same playbook) where you just inch by inch take on a bit more than the acting role for which you are hired, and then once it reaches a certain threshold of involvement with different arenas of filming and production, they have to give you a producer credit. This is why BL was getting herself so involved in wardrobe, dialogue writing, casting, song choice/music, all of it. But she was only hired on as an actress. It was just a massive overstep and her star power was too big to say no without risking offending her.

The biggest unforced error here is that supposedly Wayfarer productions allowed production and filming to start without having an actual SIGNED contract from Blake. So when she started to suggest that she may not promote the film if she didn’t get to edit, they had no leverage. All the leverage was hers.

It certainly does not appear accidental.

^allegedly, of course.

But that’s the way it appears when reading through the very detailed timeline of events and actions and text messages that JBs team has made public