Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

[Anonymous]

If I were Justin, I would settle for no less than $300 million

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Anonymous wrote:He’s not a child and he has multiple lawyers and a production company, as well as a billionaire friend supporting him. He was far from powerless here and not some poor little boy with no volition.

You obviously haven’t been following the case at all. His lawsuit and the website he set up share multiple texts and emails that clearly show Blake’s team had them all walking on eggshells. Lawyers, producers, editors, weighing in with how stressful it was. Sony even intervening.

This was a low budget movie and the billionaire backer was not involved at this point. Come on. She is an actress married to a very powerful Hollywood player and she made that clear from the very start. He got all the support with the lawyers and the PR and the billionaire back only AFTER she created a major crisis.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we just fast forward to the part where Ryan and Blake have to pay Justin $50 million cash, apologize publicly, and never work again in Hollywood? This evil couple has crashed out.

Yes please.

Oops $300 million plus legal fees plus apology

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Who is HR on a film set? I don’t see mention of the name of an HR person anywhere or in any meetings but there is mention of HR. Who were they and who did they work for? If someone on set wanted to file a complaint with HR, what company do they go to? Sony? Wayfarer? Someone else?.

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Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t add up to me that all of a sudden he’s making all these women uncomfortable, yet he has had no complaints before working on all these-female-centered shows (in fact, the opposite). He just decided to one day wake up and harass one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. He also was very careful to keep all these records and documents (trainings, call sheets, etc) yet she claims he kept a “chaotic and disorganized” set. She also claims he tried to take credit for her work on the movie, and that she downplayed her work on it, when we’ve seen with our own eyes her taking credit all over the place. She just lies, and I can’t get past it. I’m going to need to see some hard proof to change my mind. And I’m done arguing with misogyny poster. You win—I’m a misogynist! Enjoy fighting with other posters about the birth scene.

The prior movies he directed were teen flicks and didn't involve the kind of nudity he was insisting on here. in Five Feet Apart, the kids actually had to stay five feet apart from one another or they ran the risk of killing one another, except for one scene where the boy gives the girl mouth to mouth resuscitation or something like that. That's it! So maybe it's not such a surprise if people he directed on his 2 previous films didn't have a serious problem with him. They were kids and there was little to no nudity. If he was so very careful than maybe he would have actually closed the set then entire time and not had extraneous monitors on as had been promised etc. etc.

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I mean, clearly we're not going to convince one another here. Somehow this guy specifically hires the same PR firm as Amber Heard so that Lively can be decimated in the same way online -- to the extent that Baldoni wonders if the PR people are going hard enough, multiple times, except he draws the line at bots that look like bots because he doesn't want it coming back at him -- classy. This is the guy who has become some sort of cultural hero to you who you want to win $300 million. I think that's sad. *shrug*

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Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t add up to me that all of a sudden he’s making all these women uncomfortable, yet he has had no complaints before working on all these-female-centered shows (in fact, the opposite). He just decided to one day wake up and harass one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. He also was very careful to keep all these records and documents (trainings, call sheets, etc) yet she claims he kept a “chaotic and disorganized” set. She also claims he tried to take credit for her work on the movie, and that she downplayed her work on it, when we’ve seen with our own eyes her taking credit all over the place. She just lies, and I can’t get past it. I’m going to need to see some hard proof to change my mind. And I’m done arguing with misogyny poster. You win—I’m a misogynist! Enjoy fighting with other posters about the birth scene.

The prior movies he directed were teen flicks and didn't involve the kind of nudity he was insisting on here. in Five Feet Apart, the kids actually had to stay five feet apart from one another or they ran the risk of killing one another, except for one scene where the boy gives the girl mouth to mouth resuscitation or something like that. That's it! So maybe it's not such a surprise if people he directed on his 2 previous films didn't have a serious problem with him. They were kids and there was little to no nudity. If he was so very careful than maybe he would have actually closed the set then entire time and not had extraneous monitors on as had been promised etc. etc.

You’re acting as if he directed pay per view porn where poor poor Blake Lively, who humped and faked orgasm in The Town, pretended to bone two guys in Savages. Get over yourself.

You are honestly such a scummy person to insist her claim has merit against all evidence.

Even your language here in describing made up scenes is just gross. You get frustrated and you just start being disgusting. Be normal or shut up.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the pro Justin people - why do you think he suggested to the PR team early on that he should go on a tv show and talk about his neuro divergence and how his brain works differenlty and how the accusations could be explained by social awkwardness and impulsive speech?

Because the majority of her claims do not describe sexual harassment but annoying behavior. And this type of behavior could be attributed to someone being awkward and impulsive.

I am a neurodivergent person and so is my daughter, and have never heard of neurodivergence being the reason someone pressured an actress to do a scene nude despite it not being scripted that way and despite not having a intimacy coordinator on set. That's a new one!

Okay, she wasn’t nude. She actually wasn’t giving birth, contrary to what you may be led to believe, as this was a film. She also consciously neglected to meet with the IC. She is The Blake Lively, what Blake wants, Blake gets. Why didn’t The Blake lively speak up if she didn’t like faking giving birth?

She was only not nude because she DID speak up. And she was still wearing less clothing than she requested to wear -- she assumed she would be clothed on the bottom as actresses typically are during birth scenes, which usually do not focus the camera anywhere close to an actor's private parts and instead focuses on faces and upper bodies. And even after she'd agreed to do the scene with less clothing and already filmed it, Baldoni and Heath still tracked her down on set the next day to try and show her a video of Heath's wife giving birth nude because... they are neurodivergent I guess?

This is more than "annoying" behavior. It's sexual harassment.

I agree with this (although I'm not sure Heath said he was neurodivergent, I thought just Baldoni).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He’s not a child and he has multiple lawyers and a production company, as well as a billionaire friend supporting him. He was far from powerless here and not some poor little boy with no volition.

You obviously haven’t been following the case at all. His lawsuit and the website he set up share multiple texts and emails that clearly show Blake’s team had them all walking on eggshells. Lawyers, producers, editors, weighing in with how stressful it was. Sony even intervening.

This was a low budget movie and the billionaire backer was not involved at this point. Come on. She is an actress married to a very powerful Hollywood player and she made that clear from the very start. He got all the support with the lawyers and the PR and the billionaire back only AFTER she created a major crisis.

Where have you been? Sarowitz cofounded Wayfarer with Baldoni way back in 2019, long before any of this started. Baldoni's billionaire friend, who visited the set during filiming, who supported Baldoni through everything -- has been on board with Baldoni on this from Day 1. Also clearly somebody paid off the other Wayfarer employee who previously sued Baldoni for harassment and retaliation and then settled out of court back in 2022 -- I suspect that would have been moneybags Sarowitz but please correct me if you know otherwise. Baldoni has his own dragons, he just seems more sympathetic because he doesn't (as far as we know) brag about them.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, clearly we're not going to convince one another here. Somehow this guy specifically hires the same PR firm as Amber Heard so that Lively can be decimated in the same way online -- to the extent that Baldoni wonders if the PR people are going hard enough, multiple times, except he draws the line at bots that look like bots because he doesn't want it coming back at him -- classy. This is the guy who has become some sort of cultural hero to you who you want to win $300 million. I think that's sad. *shrug*

I agree even as a person who has called out Blake multiple times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just doesn’t add up to me that all of a sudden he’s making all these women uncomfortable, yet he has had no complaints before working on all these-female-centered shows (in fact, the opposite). He just decided to one day wake up and harass one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. He also was very careful to keep all these records and documents (trainings, call sheets, etc) yet she claims he kept a “chaotic and disorganized” set. She also claims he tried to take credit for her work on the movie, and that she downplayed her work on it, when we’ve seen with our own eyes her taking credit all over the place. She just lies, and I can’t get past it. I’m going to need to see some hard proof to change my mind. And I’m done arguing with misogyny poster. You win—I’m a misogynist! Enjoy fighting with other posters about the birth scene.

She and Ryan are utterly shameless compulsive liars. Immoral and grubby low lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I were Justin, I would settle for no less than $300 million

OK but I don't think that offer is on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, clearly we're not going to convince one another here. Somehow this guy specifically hires the same PR firm as Amber Heard so that Lively can be decimated in the same way online -- to the extent that Baldoni wonders if the PR people are going hard enough, multiple times, except he draws the line at bots that look like bots because he doesn't want it coming back at him -- classy. This is the guy who has become some sort of cultural hero to you who you want to win $300 million. I think that's sad. *shrug*

So what should he have done? Honest question. He hired a crisis PR firm, it’s hard to believe if this were your husband or friend you wouldn’t support him doing that.

I think Hollywood PR is a nasty business for sure but she gave him no choice. She had 45 plus million followers (she’s lost a few hundred thousand recently). She leaked that she was fat shamed and worse. She banned him from the premiere, and was setting up to take over the sequel. People were starting to speculate and who could blame them? Wow, he must’ve really acted horribly onset. He must be a harasser or abuser. This is not great if you’re trying to build up your career as a producer and a director and a podcaster. And sure enough She ended up going to the meet to writer of the New York Times. And I think her PR team completely swayed the times as we have seen because they did really sloppy reporting and even if they don’t end up losing this case, a lot of people have questioned their tactics here and whether it was fair reporting.

There were texts to the PR team showing how scared he was of her. He knew more was coming and he was trying to be proactive and no one could freaking blame him. It seems like he hired the right guy with Freedman. I don’t exactly like the guy, but I think he’s been smart and how he has handled this.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the only board I have seen that has such a staunch pro Justin position that he did nothing wrong and that all of this was solely a plot from Blake from before the movie even began to steal the movie.

Lots of boards have far more nuanced discussions and its curious that this one is almost entirely pro Justin with vicious attacks at Blake and at anyone who says anything that isn't pro Justin.

Sounds quite….

Lipstick Alley has a ton of traffic and they have been pro-Justin after he countered her claims. Before, she has believers even though she got married at a g.d. plantation. There’s “nuance” and then there’s your trolling, calling people “baldoni bots,” and shriek-whining to Jeff to shut the conversation down.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we just fast forward to the part where Ryan and Blake have to pay Justin $50 million cash, apologize publicly, and never work again in Hollywood? This evil couple has crashed out.

Not before discovery and depositions of T Swift and Ari Emanuel.