Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:Again, why would BL make any of this up? She has nothing to gain.

Sure she does. She has persistent issues with co stars, came off a dismissive jerk in multiple interviews, and needs to do something now that opportunities are not coming her way. She’s trying to make herself appear sympathetic. She also needs an explanation for why she totally usurped his role as the director.

Her costars are standing by her.

The current ones seem to be the only ones. They've seen what she and Ryan are capable of. I'd stay out of the way of that too.

Yes that is comical, she had to go back to her first role some twenty years ago to find supporters. Leighton Meister and Anna Kendrick have been awfully quiet though.

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Honestly, there is no point in arguing about every little phrase in her complaint. They are nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations at this point. He’ll respond in two weeks and then she’ll get another bite at the Apple.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, why would BL make any of this up? She has nothing to gain.

Sure she does. She has persistent issues with co stars, came off a dismissive jerk in multiple interviews, and needs to do something now that opportunities are not coming her way. She’s trying to make herself appear sympathetic. She also needs an explanation for why she totally usurped his role as the director.

Her costars are standing by her.

The current ones seem to be the only ones. They've seen what she and Ryan are capable of. I'd stay out of the way of that too.

Lots of other actresses have spoken up for her taking a stand against sexual harassment. It's JB in need of support. His crazed fans count for very little.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, why would BL make any of this up? She has nothing to gain.

Sure she does. She has persistent issues with co stars, came off a dismissive jerk in multiple interviews, and needs to do something now that opportunities are not coming her way. She’s trying to make herself appear sympathetic. She also needs an explanation for why she totally usurped his role as the director.

Her costars are standing by her.

The current ones seem to be the only ones. They've seen what she and Ryan are capable of. I'd stay out of the way of that too.

Yes that is comical, she had to go back to her first role some twenty years ago to find supporters. Leighton Meister and Anna Kendrick have been awfully quiet though.

She didn’t get along with Anna Kendrick. And Leighton Meester is really private and I don’t think she wants to attention of speaking out. They also aren’t friends.

Now why hasn’t TayTay said anything to defend her bestie?

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Anonymous wrote:The p—n addiction thing is really getting to me because I know about Justin Baldoni’s porn addiction well before this lawsuit ever happened. He talks about it in his podcast and other talks. Should I sue Justin?

Obviously, it could be very inappropriate and harassment, depending on the context, but because they were talking about very sexual themes, there was an almost rape scene in the movie, things get sexually violent, his character was a very dark man, I could maybe see where he was bringing it up in a different context. Again, not defending him just saying that I’m open to that idea.

I was surprised when I saw that Blake was inviting him to run lines while she pumped. Not judging her for that, but I’ve never been in a work situation comfortable enough to have a coworker with me while I pumped. Hollywood sets are very different beasts. It sounds like a lot of boundaries were crossed when maybe people were OK with it and when the relationship turned and then things are being looked at differently. I think at one point these two are very comfortable with each other and there’s no question that they had to have conversations about very dark themes to do this movie.

Could be totally wrong and more could come out makes Justin look worse, I’m just saying that there is some context here, and it’s really interesting that he and his lawyer are using the term manipulation to explain Blake because I can see how it’s possible to manipulate some of these situations. I think we will learn a lot more from the actual lawsuits if they move forward.

I always covered during nursing but I would rather have a room full of people watching me nurse uncovered than one person watching me have to deal with the awkward task of pumping.

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Leighton Meester's house just burned down so she likely has bigger issues to worry about right now

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Anonymous wrote:Blake gets pissy when anyone comments on her baby bump in a completely benign way. She did it to Seth Myers too! I think she’s doing the same thing to JB about a lot of this other stuff, like the weight and the porn addiction.

You guys are correct that he could have a pattern of being gross about it, but given that I’ve heard him talk about it in other contexts, and I’ve seen her be a total diva about stuff like this, I think it’s possible he didn’t do anything inappropriate and she’s just piling on to make him look bad.

I am not talking about the intimacy coordinator stuff, which will be easy enough to prove.

Yup. That interview about the bump and the clothes showed me that she has those moments where she chooses to perceive things in a completely different way than they were intended. I really hate the interview when she tried to bring the other actress into the drama with the journalist. I believe that she may have done this with the cast as well in this movie. Both show me that she is powerful enough to pull others in to her drama and get them on her side even when she is wrong and although I can’t speak to who was wrong here, she was clearly wrong in that interview and the other actress seemed to play along with Blake. It wasn’t very kind.

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Many people who have worked with Lively have come out in support of her. Not just her casemates from this show -- her casemates from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Colleen Hoover, Paul Feig, Shawn Levy, Paul Hollywood from Great British Baking Show (he worked with her on a commercial). Also a number of people who haven't worked with her directly but have met her and have no reason to say anything but have chosen to come out and say they support her, like Amy Schumer and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Baldoni's costar from Jane the Virgin had a very strong defense of him recently but that's the only one I can think of. He's directed a number of higher profile actors in movies in recent years (he's done very little acting since Jane the Virgin) and I can't find any that have spoken up. These include: Neve Campbell, Sabrina Carpenter, Cole Sprouse, and Haley Lu Richardson.

Baldoni's co-host of his podcast, Liz Plank, quit the podcast almost the moment the allegations came out and said in a statement that "I will continue to support everyone who calls out injustice and holds the people standing in their way accountable." Which is vague but also not a statement of support for Baldoni at all.

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^ no idea why castmates was autocorrected to casemates in the above but I meant castmates

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Anonymous wrote:Has Justin been complained about in about of his past gigs?

Seems like his other co-stars really liked him.

Blake on the other hand. . .

I have never read anything bad about him. He seems to be friends with his past co-stars.

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Another woman on the production spoke to Ms. Lively afterward to offer empathy and to share her own similar experiences with Mr. Baldoni commenting about her in sexual terms."

and this person needs to come forward in some sense.

She can but I think if the text came before it and this person wasn’t privy to the text then she doesn’t understand the context in which the comment was given.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, why would BL make any of this up? She has nothing to gain.

She has everything to gain. Public opinion of her is low and her reputation needs to be rehabilitated.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people who have worked with Lively have come out in support of her. Not just her casemates from this show -- her casemates from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Colleen Hoover, Paul Feig, Shawn Levy, Paul Hollywood from Great British Baking Show (he worked with her on a commercial). Also a number of people who haven't worked with her directly but have met her and have no reason to say anything but have chosen to come out and say they support her, like Amy Schumer and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Baldoni's costar from Jane the Virgin had a very strong defense of him recently but that's the only one I can think of. He's directed a number of higher profile actors in movies in recent years (he's done very little acting since Jane the Virgin) and I can't find any that have spoken up. These include: Neve Campbell, Sabrina Carpenter, Cole Sprouse, and Haley Lu Richardson.

Baldoni's co-host of his podcast, Liz Plank, quit the podcast almost the moment the allegations came out and said in a statement that "I will continue to support everyone who calls out injustice and holds the people standing in their way accountable." Which is vague but also not a statement of support for Baldoni at all.

But this makes sense right. Who in their right mind would support someone that is being sued for sexual harassment. If you support them, you are doing it behind closed doors. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the people who rushed to support aren’t wishing they had just said nothing until all of the facts were out.

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👆oops. Are wishing.

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Anonymous wrote:Leighton Meester's house just burned down so she likely has bigger issues to worry about right now

Yeah, I’m sure she was going to speak out in support of Blake any minute if that hadn’t happened.

To be fair, I think Blake still could have been sexually harassed and deeply disliked. Both things can be true. But let’s face it, we live in a world where women have to work 1 million times harder to prove these kinds of things than men have to to disprove them. Her being very unlikable and demanding on set certainly doesn’t help her case, but I do think there might’ve been an environment of harassment.

It seems like she acted absolutely terrible on this set as well and brought her husband into it. She really muddied the water because harassment is about power and it looks like had near absolute power on this set. But also justin seems very clueless and kind of shocking that a 40-year-old could act like that in 2024. He should know better.

Blake also didn’t help her claim of retaliation since there was so much organic bad press about her. The resurface 2016 baby bump interview was what got the most traction it seems like, and the reporter has flat out come out and said it was not part of the campaign, and she released it organically. She like the rest of us was probably sick of having Blake and Ryan shoved in our faces all summer.