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Both Anne and Vivian have been on every Blake and Ryan movie for the last decade and each are credited as their personal MUA and stylist.
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Sadly I think it's Baldoni Sis. But yes. |
So you just want to skip over the fact that the people you insisted weren’t Blake’s employees have in fact been her employees for a decade? On brand. |
I think that's pretty obvious.
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I’m not saying Jamey didn’t do something weird and that it wasn’t uncomfortable in the makeup trailer, but can we agree there are plenty of discrepancies here and I don’t think we should just bury our heads in the sands and be pro Justin or pro Blake. Let’s actually look at the different accounts.
I went to Blake‘s original complaint. There’s a 30 point list of all the incidents and this is listed as number 20. She says that she wanted to have a meeting to complain about the unprofessional behavior set (this was on day 2) and she had gone into her makeup trailer to have makeup removed. She was in there topless with the two other women when Jamey came to talk about the timing of the meeting. In both Jamey’s deposition and one of the other women who were there, Blake is described as breast-feeding. Jamey said she’s either breast-feeding or pumping he did t remember. I’m not sure which one of the other women it was but she clearly says Blake had walked into the trailer, “the baby was handed to her” (weird phrasing, but that’s what she said), Blake sat down in the makeup chair facing away from the door, but in front of a mirror and started nursing the baby from her right breast - highly specific - so I do believe Blake was probably breast-feeding. It is weird to me that Blake left that out. But what is really strange is Jamey said the purpose of him going in there was to see if she could meet with the other producers to discuss her issues and Blake agrees with that - the purpose of the meeting was to decide when they could meet to talk about the issues. They had all wrapped for the day and they were all there on set. Jamey said that Justin, Alex and Ange all walked over with him and were waiting outside the trailer - Jamey was the one that knocked and went in to inquire if they could meet tonight since they were all there and Blake said no she preferred to meet tomorrow because she needed to get home. Aren’t Ange and Alex her allies? I’m not clear why they didn’t go in, but either way would they have just stood there and watched Jamey barge in while people were saying don’t come in, as one of the women described? And wouldn’t in her original complaint Blake had described that? She said that she let him in reluctantly, but told him not to look (which would make sense since she has breast-fed on the set before) and to come back. She did not say that he barged in, in any way. Reddit is really good about posting a lot of the documents but they’re not always organized. I can’t find Alex’s deposition or if she’s ask about this incident? Because she should be a witness too. Not to exactly what happened in the trailer, but she was standing right outside when this happened. Or, she could say, Jamey is lying, and she and Ange weren’t there. Again, Jamey was not saying that they witnessed the incident, just that they were standing outside the trailer because they were all seeing if they could meet for everyone scattered for home. But I would be interested to see their account or to see if Jamey was lying. But to me, this is not done and dusted and there are still questions. |
| Regardless of the legal claims and their ultimate outcome, I will never watch Blake or Ryan in another movie. They’ve been shown to be awful, obnoxious, vile people. Even if she wins, she’s lost. |
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So I’m the PP from above and I did find Alex’s deposition. She was asked about this incident. She did not remember Jamey ever barging into Blake’s trailer. When asked if Blake ever complained about Jamey barging into the trailer she says I don’t remember.
It feels like the makeup artist or whoever testified Jamey barged in as they were screaming don’t come on n, overplayed their hand. If an incident like that had happened Alex would have known about it, and Blake would’ve made a bigger deal in her complaint and in the New York Times article. it does sound like it was an incident that made her uncomfortable and understandable that it made the list but it’s gotten exaggerated over time, which to me makes Blake lose some credibility. It makes it seem like she’s trying to build up the list. And it’s telling in Blake’s initial complaint that she left out the fact that she was breast-feeding. I feel like she wanted to sexualize it more by leaving that out and have people picture of Jamey just gawking at her topless. |
Alex did know about it. There are contemporaneous texts from Alex to Ange Giannetti shortly after the meeting on June 1st, 2023, where Blake outlined all of her complaints about the set up until that point, including the incident with Heath walking into her trailer. Alex's text describes the incident as Blake has always described it. In her deposition, Alex said she couldn't remember the meeting specifically, as there were lots of meetings on set. However she confirmed that the text message was hers and that if that's what she wrote to Ange, that must have been what happened in the meeting. Alex also said that reading the text message made her "uncomfortable" because that is an uncomfortable thing to have happened on set. She said that it should not have happened. I personally don't think it matters that she was breastfeeding. You have a right to breastfeed at work without your boss insisting on coming in to talk to you and looking at you unclothed, when you have specifically asked for a moment to finish what you are doing and get dressed. It doesn't matter to me if Heath was looking at her in a sexual way or just looking at her because he felt he was entitled to speak to her regardless of her state of undress. |
Should note this also shows that Alex Sachs, Ange Gianetti, and Jamey Heath were all aware that Blake was upset about the trailer incident by June 1st, 2023. If you believe Ange and Alex, they simply forgot about being told this. According to Jamey, he thought it had been handled even though nothing was done about it. All three of these people were in a position to require an HR proceeding be initiated to ensure that this incident (and the others Blake mentioned in the June 1st meeting) were resolved. None of them did. |
This infantilizes Blake. Heath did not insist on coming in. She let him come in. She chose not to cover up. She did not like the alternative which was that they would have to postpone the other meeting b/c people weren’t just going to wait around for her. She made choices here. This is getting to be ridiculous. |
She couldn't cover up because her costume had been handed out the door to wardrobe. One of the women present tried to cover her with a towel nearby but it was just a hand towel. Because she was nursing and they were in the process of removing her wig and body makeup (which also had to be done before her turnaround started, they were already hurrying for this reason), it was not possible for her to get dressed in that moment. Why couldn't Jamey wait a couple minutes? Or simply been a human being and said he was sorry about the timing and actually turn away while they talked? She offered him that compromise. Why did he have to turn around and look at her? Why was he so aggressive and demanding about it? It was the second day of filming. You can't even be fake nice? |
You’re missing the point though. The fact that Alex didn’t really resonate as a big deal is significant. Yes she remembered Blake complaining about it. Yes, she remembered that it was an incident, but as described by the makeup artist, it was aggressive. As reported it would’ve been the biggest incident, if he barged and refused to leave. That goes above sexual harassment to a safety issue. that’s what one of the makeup artist described that is not at all what Blake or Alex described so it makes it seem like it’s trying to be overplayed. It does matter if it she was breast-feeding. No one’s arguing that she doesn’t have a right to breast-feed privately at work. But it’s really telling that she left it off and she said that she was topless. She was trying to change the context to make things sound a little worse. Him staring at her topless is a very sexual act, whereas her not having total privacy breast-feeding is a problem, is a violation, but it does change the context. And I agree with the poster about infantilizing Blake. She’s not exactly a wallflower. Literally the reason Jamey was there was she wanted to organize a meeting with all of the producers to talk about how unhappy she was on set - she was certainly at that point not afraid to voice her concerns. You really think she just sat there paralyzed and couldn’t cover herself? |
I disagree the trailer incident was the biggest one. I think based on how Blake describes the experience for her, the birth scene (followed by the birthing video) was the biggest incident for her. It is when she describes feeling "humiliated". It was also something that went on for hours, between the initial conversation about them wanting her to be topless/unclothed to finishing filming, on a set that did not appear to be secure. And then the next day having Jamey show what she initially thought was pornographic material, only to find out that it was his wife's birthing video and their attempt to *continue* to win the argument over what is "normal" for a woman to wear in childbirth. I think that was more significant for her. As for the complaint, it's written by lawyers and is composed based on legal intentions. Lively's complaint starts with the retaliation evidence, and this is often what is the focus of her pleadings, because it is legally the strongest part of their case. It is also the primary reason she brought the lawsuit -- she has said herself (in the NYT interview I believe) that the behavior on set was upsetting but also on par with other bad experiences she's had in Hollywood. It was the PR campaign, and then I would guess seeing those messages from Abel's phone, that made her decide to sue. Which is why I don't think anyone is infantilizing Blake. She did take action. She registered complaints with Alex, with Ange, with Jamey, with Justin. She called the June 1st meeting to make sure it was acknowledged and everyone knew. And while Alex may now claim she doesn't remember the meeting, her texts to Ange after the meeting make it clear it was a serious conversation and that Blake was very forceful in explaining why she was upset. She made requests for better conditions. When she didn't feel her complaints were being properly addressed, she had her lawyer sent them the 17 point list (in November 2023) and explicitly requested a meeting before the shoot restarted to address these concerns, and then they had the January 4th meeting. And everyone agree things were better on set in the second half of filming. All of that is Blake vocalizing concerns and requesting real commitments for things to improve, until ultimately she got what she and others considered a safe and respectful set. Those are not the actions of someone playing the victim or trying to trump up fake charges. She was trying to solve the problem, and thought she had, until she saw those texts from Jen Abel's phone and learned what Wayfarer had been up to since July 2024. |
I agree. More and more it seems like this was about taking over the film and then revenge for all her bad press and her hair product line tanking. The Sony executives put in writing to each other that she did this to herself with her tone deaf interviews. The late December 2024 text from Taylor was telling. They filed the complaint and the times article to “uncancel” Blake and that worked for a couple weeks until more evidence started coming out and now no one will touch her. What a massive backfire. |
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For everyone wondering what Jed Wallace was paid $90,000 to do, we have some insights. A voice memo that he left the Wayfarer team was published in the docket.
Apparently Wayfarer’s Wikipedia page had been tampered with and he was cautioning them not to react or do anything. He said everything is traceable and we just have to continue to let them bait themselves. It seemed like a lot of what he was doing was tracing Blake team bots. We know that she uses them as it’s been pointed out during the Barbie campaign of who was going to get rights to the movie, Blake’s team had planted a lot of bots. And sleuths have figured that every two Saturdays or so, her team buys about 20,000 Instagram followers and they’ve captured screenshots. It’ll be 10 people with the same picture named Audrey, 10 people with the same picture named Zoe, just basic bots. Jed is saying all this will eventually be traceable and just to let them keep going. So there is a smear campaign, all right, just ironic that it’s going to be Blake that gets caught up in this. I continue to think this won’t go to trial because Blake’s team won’t let it but I hope it does. |