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I never heard of Jenny Slate, Justin Baldoni, Brandon whatvever his name is, or the actor playing young Lily. I never cared about Ryan Reynolds or Blake Lively, was never a fan of either of them. Never saw IEWU and don’t plan to. I am just obsessed with this case because it’s just so eye opening into how gross and entitled so many, if not all, of these people are. They all just seem like such stunted, immature, entitled, crappy people. All of them. But Baldoni is innocent imo. |
| This is what happens when a bunch of bratty whiny millenials get together and try to make a movie. |
Omg PP we need a new thread about your workplace - that sounds fascinating and frankly a lot more interesting than this lawsuit! |
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Did we know that Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman has his own independent relationship with Jed Wallace, i.e., has used him in previous cases/problems? Probably (since this is from a week old article) but I had missed this:
“Wallace has his own relationship with Bryan Freedman, the prominent attorney representing Baldoni and Wayfarer. He told Variety that while he wouldn’t describe Wallace as a fixer, he’s an extraordinarily adept and well-resourced operator across international jurisdictions. (Both that publication as well as The Hollywood Reporter spoke to individuals who compared Wallace to Ray Donovan, the eponymous problem-solver for entertainment elites on the Showtime series.) “The extent of Freedman’s professional involvement with Wallace is unclear. The lawyer’s own crisis publicist briefly included Wallace in correspondence during the 2024 reporting of a THR profile that Freedman considered adversarial. …. “Last year, a tech CEO named Christian Lanng alleged in a defamation and extortion action that Freedman’s law firm “hired third parties to create deepfake stories” by utilizing counterfeit websites and inauthentic social media accounts “in an attempt to leverage a higher settlement” against him. Lanng later claimed that an unnamed consultant had pseudonymously posted on X, formerly Twitter, as a fictitious character, claiming to have been sexually victimized by the chief executive and encouraging others to come forward to Freedman. This consultant’s other plans purportedly included trolling on Reddit forums that would harm the opponent and his company. In court, Freedman has denied these claims, and he’s previously told THR it “sounds like a spy novel about the CIA.” Now Lanng’s lawyer Christopher Frost says of the Wallace revelations, “we’re watching this matter closely.” He adds of their own assertion of a “social media smear campaign”: “If those [Lanng] allegations were met with any skepticism, I suspect there is less skepticism today,” given Wallace’s since-publicized connection to Freedman.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/justin-baldoni-alleged-fixer-jed-wallace-bryan-freedman-1236135226/ So maybe it’s some sort of team group protection because if one goes down, they all do? Mutually assured destruction. Suggests that Freedman is going to work very hard to prevent anything really damaging to come out about Wallace, because if it does, it also destroys Freedman and/or hinders his ability to serve clients in the same way he has in the past in the future. For all folks talk about Reynolds’s etc, to me it seems like *this* is the actual real nasty business. Remember, Lively and her PR rep were checking in with each other to make sure they weren’t negatively affecting coverage to hurt Baldoni, meanwhile Lively was taking huge hits (some maybe self inflicted but it’s clear to me at least that some were not) kind of unprotected. The stuff described in this article is the reason I’m interested in this case and I hope this case will provide some precedent to kill these practices and make them extremely cost prohibitive. I don’t even care that much if the costs have to be paid by Baldoni or Sarowitz (though I think they should) — even if the judgment just goes against the PR firm, it will be worth it. |
I don’t think people were as upset over that one as the other one about the sex scene with the young actress. Honestly, I don’t like Baldoni and I even posted here that I didn’t even believe the latter allegation. I don’t think anyone here took those YouTube complaints that seriously. |
They did for a little bit. Just like everyone is speculating now. |
Not at all. Just about everyone here said they wanted to wait on confirmation and it was sketchy those complaints only ended up on reddit, tiktok, and podcasts. |
| Young Lily is apparently a Clooney so I am sure Rosemary and George will help her out if needed! |
Oh of course she is! Haha of course she is a Clooney. Nepotism at it’s finest. |
You are full of baloney (see what i did there lol)? |
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From the start in this back in August, I was really turned off by Jenny and Blake and their unprofessionalism with promotion of this movie. Obviously Blake took it to a whole other level with her completely terrible interviews about domestic violence, launching a frivolous business, and shilling her alcohol line as part of the promotion, but what really turned me off about her and Jenny was just how disrespectful they were toward Justin.
I am sure we have all had workplace disputes and not gotten along with people, but you pull it together for the client or the meeting or whatever you need to do. Hollywood is littered with absolutely terrible relationships, but people pull it together for the promotion of the film, and then they move on with their lives. If it was some magic formula that public disputes would translate to box office gold I’m sure we would see more of it, but “don’t worry, darling” was not exactly a box office hit so I don’t think it translates. So yeah, I just thought it was total mean girl stuff at the time, especially when he was being so professional. Fast-forward to all of these things coming out and I still don’t see what would’ve caused this. I will need to learn more about Jenny slates situation but it sounds like they bent over backwards to accommodate her? I’m not sure why they would pay a security deposit for an actress who lives in New York City in the first place? And then it sounds like he’s socially awkward and said something about motherhood that she didn’t like, but why runoff to HR? I’m going to try not to judge until I get more context, but it really just seems like they decided that they were just going to bully this guy. Which is fine, go to HR and file a complaint. But then I don’t know why you have to air it out in August 2024 and just be so mean during the promotion. |
There has been absolutely no official allegation tying Jenny to that accusation. Just rumors on top of rumors. Why not wait and see what the official story is? |
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God if I was on this set I would have punched them all in the teeth. |
| This film was comprised of the everyone gets a gold star brigade. |
Oh I agree. I didn’t make my point well, which was that two days ago the internet went wild speculating about those two fake claims. And now everyone is speculating once again. We should wait for more info before we decide if it’s even relevant to this case. |