Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

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01/12/2025 07:57

Subject: Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:I think they were at war with each other by the end because of creative issues. She basically brought in Ryan to rewrite scenes and took over editing, in violation of the director’s guild rules, to get the version she wanted. Any retailiation was over that (and let’s be honest, they both were campaigning against the other via their pr team ) not sexual harassment. But creative differences doesn’t provide a cause of action.

This is what I had assumed happened when the rift became obvious during promotion of the movie. Creative differences that came to ahead because he's still a newbie director and she has more pull than your average leading lady thanks to Reynolds.

However her lawsuit has me questioning that narrative. I mean, maybe her allegations in the lawsuit are all trumped up and taken out of context, and the whole thing is a ruse for getting him to sell the rights to the sequel to Lively and Reynolds. That's still a possibility.

But her lawsuit is very *complete* in its portrayal of a toxic work environment that was particularly bad regarding nudity/intimacy on the set and treating actors respectfully. If what Lively is alleging there is true, then Baldoni and Wayfarer ran a super unprofessional set where actors were particularly compromised during intimate scenes, pressured to do more intimacy/nudity than was in the script, and generally just treated poorly. If that's accurate, then I think it's likely that the rewriting/inserting of scenes by Lively and Reynolds, and Lively having Reynolds do his own cut of the movie and pressuring Sony to release that version, was done to try and reclaim some control over the intimate and nude content in the movie. Which, if her allegations are truthful, I totally understand. The way her complaint describes the filming of the birth scene is totally unacceptable -- I would absolutely support an actress in demanding that she have more control over editing of a scene that was filmed that way, with her pressured to do nudity she wasn't comfortable with, the set kept open, no IC on set, and the director's buddy hired to play the doctor and hang out right next to her genitals. If all that is accurate, Baldoni deserved to have creative control of the movie taken away, IMO.

But again, *if* it's true. Baldoni says there is context missing. I'm willing to wait and hear what that is. Because there is another narrative where this is just about creative differences and control, I'm staying open minded. They need to present their evidence. But I do think Livley has presented a viable alternative narrative that really casts a lot of doubt on that creative differences narrative that prevailed over the summer when the movie came out.

Well, she has to make allegations like that to state a cause of action. But a lot of what you wrote makes no sense, an actress doesn’t have control over editing any scene. Whether the actor was a friend of Justin’s or not doesn’t matter one way or another. Bit parts often go to friends of the directors. You really think men are campaigning to be near Blake in a birthing scene in which she was wearing a prosthetic belly and surrounded by other actors and crew? To me, that paragraph a sign of her overinflated ego, assuming every male is irresistibly drawn to her sexually.

Normally an actress doesn't have control over editing, correct. That's why when I heard that Lively and Reynolds were writing scenes and editing the movie, it sounded like massive overreach. Everyone thought that. And everyone assumed that the reason Sony went along with it was because Reynolds is pretty powerful in the industry and they didn't want to piss him off. That's absolutely what I thought for a long time.

And look, it if turns out that they've made up the allegations in her complaint just to make Baldoni look bad and try to justify taking over creative control of the project, I think that will come out of the litigation. If there isn't a settlement, there will be testimony by other cast members, the intimacy coordinator, ADs and other crew members, etc. But *if* it went down as her complaint alleges, then I support her in intervening with the creative process regarding the script and editing. Because if it happened that way, it violates industry standards regarding nudity/intimacy on the set and it was harassment. She has to prove it, but if she does, I don't have a problem with Lively taking control over final cut of the movie. I don't think an actress who has been pressured into doing nudity and unscripted intimacy, without the protection of an IC on set during those scenes, should just have to accept however the director wants to edit those scenes.

We'll have to wait and see which narrative is true. We really don't know yet.

For her to make this defense, she would have to prove that there were actually scenes shot that she was uncomfortable with. It’s my understanding that she was presented with scenes that she would be uncomfortable with, but I’m not sure that there’s proof that they were actually shot. I believe she pushed back and refused to shoot some scenes the way he wanted it, but I’m not sure that there is a lot of footage floating out there of Blake naked in ways that she didn’t want to be. And they would have to prove that for her to justify taking control of the cuts of the film.