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Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims
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Anonymous
| Well I'll change the topic. How do Blake and Ryan recover? If they settle tomorrow the damage is already done. We need an explanation on why her complaint and the NYT text messages were so misleading |
Anonymous
If you follow the PR people...they don't really. He'll maybe be ok but she's going to have to separate and make this a thing where Ryan held the reins. They can double down for a bit, but this is quickly approaching expiry. I think BL can come out of this! But not with Ryan. He's the bankroller though and the "tearing a new ahole" on wife's friend so that's weird. |
Anonymous
I was getting the same vibes. Most people already believe Ryan is the main pusher behind this. If she stepped back and was like yeah I shouldn't have listened to him. This situation is out of control, I went about this terribly. Then I think she could gain more support. The problem is Ryan could do the same thing or even play as he only was trying to protect Blake and believed what she told. That being said I don't really see this happening. Their kids are so young they can't turn on each other. |
Anonymous
| BL is a mid actress who we only know because of who she is married to. If she turns on RR that's a wrap for her career. By her age she would have needed to establish a much stronger portfolio to survive this scandal and breaking from RR. Gossip Girl and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants aren't enough. |
Anonymous
I think I read that JB doesn’t want to settle. He wants to go to trial to clear his name, which has been totally ruined. |
Anonymous
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-02-11/hollywoods-pr-firms-are-facing-their-own-crisis
More qoutes from what was said in the hearing, but locked. My usual sites can't bypass it. Anyone have access and give us the run down? (Not the whole article remember. Only qoutes) |
Anonymous
I feel like they will settle. Trial is not until march 2026. The longer this goes on the worst for all involved. But I do think this hurts Blake and Ryan more. |
Anonymous
Of course it hurts them more. JB has something no falsely accused party ever has: a true-blue billionaire financial backer with their own self-interest (for helping a member of their faith and for shoring up their financial investment in Wayfarer) willing to pay every legal bill. Further, the real reputational damage was done to him. I could only see settlement with a full apology and admission from BL which can’t happen, because she and her idiot husband are extraordinarily sensitive. They are liars, and cheaters on multiple levels, and they absolutely cannot admit it. He’s funny Deadpool! Remember when she was cute and on that teen drama! They will never apologize and the fact that Handler and Apatow made clown comments about the whole thing shows IMO they are seen as liars and jokes so that’s awesome. BL and RR have fallen and they can’t get up because they can’t face the shame of doing the one thing that could end this - settling for a painful but affordable to them sum WITH a full public apology. So self-immolation in front of Judge Liman it is! Whee! |
Anonymous
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Court update:
Lively's lawyers have requested an extension to file their amended complaint, from 2/14 to 3/5. In their letter, they note that Baldoni's team have requested and received an extension to file responsive pleadings, of 3/20. Also, they note that the extension is needed because one of the defendants they plan to add, Jed Wallace, has filed a lawsuit against them in Texas. You can read the letter here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cks9vf13vMrYZodh7vBjZ1j4FudER8_l/view?pli=1 |
Anonymous
What's the bold mean? |
Anonymous
They're both old. Is there really a massive fan base yearning for 50 year old Ryan Reynolds and his catty cringy humor? |
Anonymous
DP but they are referring to the fact that everyone at Wayfarer (Baldoni, Heath, and billionaire financier Steve Sarowitz) is a member of the Bahá'i Faith. That's how they met. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Wow, that interview didn’t age well. This is her mo and she obviously thinks very highly of herself. Weaseling her way in with no intention of perfecting the character or actually improving her craft, so cringy and dishonest. During the interview she states that she knows that she is replaceable. Yes, Blake, you are a dime a dozen, in terms of acting ability. |
Anonymous
She's saying that when she was younger, she would people-please when she went into initial meetings and not really admit (to the director/producers or maybe to herself) that she wanted to be more than just an actor hitting her marks and saying her lines, and she's empathizing that this probably felt like a "rug pull" when she'd then want to have more input. She's admitting she went about it wrong. The interview is from 2022. She's saying that she is now more upfront about wanting to have more "authorship" in the projects she chooses and is more willing to say from the start that she wants to have input into things like the costuming. She's saying she now chooses projects intentionally with people who are interested in collaborating with her and not just hiring her to be an actor and say her lines. If you look through the texts/emails that Baldoni himself provides, you see over and over that he is telling her he wants to be collaborative and wants her input. At no point does he actually push back and say no, we just want you to be an actor and show up and say your lines. It's a different story when he's communicating with the producers and it's clear from THOSE communications that the people at Wayfarer absolutely do not want to collaborate with Lively. But where is that communicated to Lively? It looks to me like the people who were trying to "rug pull" here were Baldoni and Wayfarer. She signed onto this project in late 2022, so not long after the interview at the link. If she set from the outset, as she was saying publicly at the time, "I want to have some authorship on this project, I don't want to just be an actor," did they go into those initial meetings and say "oh yes, yes of course we want to collaborate with you and we want your input," only to later decide they didn't actually and they wanted her to just shut up and act? They wanted her name, her image, her Instagram followers, and her husband's support at the premiere, but they didn't want to actually listen to her? She sounds self-aware in that interview and like someone who has evolved as a person since starting out as a very young actor. |