Why is Blake Lively so overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

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All this talk about hostile work environment, y’all realize this movie was like a six week shoot right? It did not take long to shoot this movie and Blake didn’t even have to be on set every day. A good third of this movie was all about the young lily and young atlas played by different actors and Blake wasn’t in those scenes.

If I thought she was really sexually harassed, then even six weeks would be too long, but I think they just didn’t like each other. Fine, wrap the movie and move on.

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

I don’t think you are understanding the conversation. “That’s cute” in the tone he used is kind of a smarmy insult. He doesn’t say “oh that’s lovely” or “fun!” or even “that’s too much work for me!” Or whatever, but “That’s cute” in THAT tone. It’s an insult and a power move in itself. Urban dictionary agrees. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%27s%20Cute

Have you never been told “that’s cute” by someone, in a tone, who clearly means the opposite?

Look at your overreactive judginess of her follow up when you seem to think “that’s cute” in this context is a compliment and don’t even understand wtf is going on. smdh

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

I don’t think you are understanding the conversation. “That’s cute” in the tone he used is kind of a smarmy insult. He doesn’t say “oh that’s lovely” or “fun!” or even “that’s too much work for me!” Or whatever, but “That’s cute” in THAT tone. It’s an insult and a power move in itself. Urban dictionary agrees. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%27s%20Cute

Have you never been told “that’s cute” by someone, in a tone, who clearly means the opposite?

Look at your overreactive judginess of her follow up when you seem to think “that’s cute” in this context is a compliment and don’t even understand wtf is going on. smdh

Except it wasn’t condescending at all and it was a perfectly appropriate response. She was talking about how they fell in love. What else was he supposed to say?

We’re more than cute is nothing but a ridiculously obnoxious response. Especially given the backstory that she used Ryan and later Taylor as leverage throughout this movie.

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

I think it matters that Baldoni was her co-star AND director. It makes the situation much worse if they didn't like each other and she was getting the creeps from him, because not only does she have to do scenes where she's playing a relationship with him, but he's involved in every single scene she's in. She doesn't get a break when she'd doing a scene with Jenny Slate or Brandon Sklenar -- Baldoni is directing those scenes. Plus he's also directing her in scenes they are in together, which is going to make any discomfort she was feeling much worse.

I am really not a Blake Lively fan but I do actually feel for her in this situation even if it turns out that he didn't technically sexually harass her. Like even if it just turns out it was a crappy situation with not getting along with Baldoni. He seems weird and annoying, at a minimum, and she was contractually obligated to spend months dealing with him. Ugh.

I mean, same for him?

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

I think something that’s lost on people is how outgoing BL is. Like her or not, in every clip I’ve seen of her she is running the interview. This is a big personality, not a shrinking violet. She is playful, sarcastic, funny, confrontational, aggressive, in your face, and loud. I’m sure she is a lot of fun to hang with because she is so fearless. But let’s not pretend she’s a shy wallflower. Has anyone seen the clip where she browbeats the interviewer into saying he likes cookies because she’s annoyed with him for asking what her pregnancy cravings are. It’s kind of in good spirits— but it’s clear to me she’s not someone would endure 6 minutes of SH much less 6 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake does it to herself. She admits to blackface in an interview: "I put bronzer all over myself and a Scary Spice ‘fro so I think they’d think I was a Black girl."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/blake-lively-accused-horrified-fans-34533597

Her racism is separate from the sexual harassment issue of course but she's such a PR nightmare on her own. No one has to destry her when she does it to herself so well.

Just LOOK at all the money his PR team is spending looking at old tapes of her from 20 years ago (this was 2006) and making them news again. This must be costing him a fortune. He had better get something out of this lawsuit because he might be spending his entire TEWU payout on the suit.

If she is a racist (and that was a stupid and suspect thing to say but note also that it was 20 years ago so wouldn’t she have been about 20 years old?), that does not mean she can’t be sexually harassed.

What you are saying is that she is such an awful person that we shouldn’t care if she was or not. Similar to the Amber Heard PR strategy. Kill the person in the media and the verdict you want will follow.

You are gross, and I don’t respect you.

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

I think it matters that Baldoni was her co-star AND director. It makes the situation much worse if they didn't like each other and she was getting the creeps from him, because not only does she have to do scenes where she's playing a relationship with him, but he's involved in every single scene she's in. She doesn't get a break when she'd doing a scene with Jenny Slate or Brandon Sklenar -- Baldoni is directing those scenes. Plus he's also directing her in scenes they are in together, which is going to make any discomfort she was feeling much worse.

I am really not a Blake Lively fan but I do actually feel for her in this situation even if it turns out that he didn't technically sexually harass her. Like even if it just turns out it was a crappy situation with not getting along with Baldoni. He seems weird and annoying, at a minimum, and she was contractually obligated to spend months dealing with him. Ugh.

I mean, same for him?

Not exactly the same, because he was the director. If you have to work with someone you really don't like, I'd much rather be the person with more power and authority than the opposite.

I have had to work with people I didn't like before and there is nothing quite like getting "feedback" from someone you can't stand.

Yes, me too. I just perceive this person with power and authority to be Lively.

Exactly! She had him sent to the basement!

There were signs in that that they missed because of their egos. The fact that he took pictures with his crew in the basementt/ side room and celebrated getting shoved aside by Lively/Reynolds should have been a sign to them that they were in for a fight with him.

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

I don’t think you are understanding the conversation. “That’s cute” in the tone he used is kind of a smarmy insult. He doesn’t say “oh that’s lovely” or “fun!” or even “that’s too much work for me!” Or whatever, but “That’s cute” in THAT tone. It’s an insult and a power move in itself. Urban dictionary agrees. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%27s%20Cute

Have you never been told “that’s cute” by someone, in a tone, who clearly means the opposite?

Look at your overreactive judginess of her follow up when you seem to think “that’s cute” in this context is a compliment and don’t even understand wtf is going on. smdh

“Fun!” would get me way more than “that’s cute.” I can’t think of any response that wouldn’t sound patronizing here—because he clearly thinks she needs to be treated with kid gloves and he probably is humoring her. He tries a curt “it’s cute” first, and then when that’s not enough, he has to fully kiss her a** by upgrading to “that’s amazing!”

It’s the same reason why “it smells nice” wasn’t creepy. He doesn’t even like her. He is trying to do his job and then get out of there.

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

I don’t think you are understanding the conversation. “That’s cute” in the tone he used is kind of a smarmy insult. He doesn’t say “oh that’s lovely” or “fun!” or even “that’s too much work for me!” Or whatever, but “That’s cute” in THAT tone. It’s an insult and a power move in itself. Urban dictionary agrees. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%27s%20Cute

Have you never been told “that’s cute” by someone, in a tone, who clearly means the opposite?

Look at your overreactive judginess of her follow up when you seem to think “that’s cute” in this context is a compliment and don’t even understand wtf is going on. smdh

“Fun!” would get me way more than “that’s cute.” I can’t think of any response that wouldn’t sound patronizing here—because he clearly thinks she needs to be treated with kid gloves and he probably is humoring her. He tries a curt “it’s cute” first, and then when that’s not enough, he has to fully kiss her a** by upgrading to “that’s amazing!”

It’s the same reason why “it smells nice” wasn’t creepy. He doesn’t even like her. He is trying to do his job and then get out of there.

+1 he’s just trying to appease her and get the scene done. She sounds difficult.

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To add, if “that’s cute” is a power move, then he lost that power struggle. Because he had to add “that’s amazing! You guys are great!” (After she made fun of how he and his wife stare at each other like serial killers—why is only she allowed to make jabs?).

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

I don’t think you are understanding the conversation. “That’s cute” in the tone he used is kind of a smarmy insult. He doesn’t say “oh that’s lovely” or “fun!” or even “that’s too much work for me!” Or whatever, but “That’s cute” in THAT tone. It’s an insult and a power move in itself. Urban dictionary agrees. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%27s%20Cute

Have you never been told “that’s cute” by someone, in a tone, who clearly means the opposite?

Look at your overreactive judginess of her follow up when you seem to think “that’s cute” in this context is a compliment and don’t even understand wtf is going on. smdh

“Fun!” would get me way more than “that’s cute.” I can’t think of any response that wouldn’t sound patronizing here—because he clearly thinks she needs to be treated with kid gloves and he probably is humoring her. He tries a curt “it’s cute” first, and then when that’s not enough, he has to fully kiss her a** by upgrading to “that’s amazing!”

It’s the same reason why “it smells nice” wasn’t creepy. He doesn’t even like her. He is trying to do his job and then get out of there.

+1. And while dancing he got a few shots of touching her as the character and yells, "Cut!" and is done with it. He did not continue touching her which is what would be expected if he was getting off on harassing her.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen this “tea” that Justin baldoni’s rights to the sequel came with a morality clause, so Colleen Hoover can get the rights back if he violates it by doing something like sexual harassment? It sounds very conspiracy theory-ish but while we’re here…

Oooh this is interesting.

Maybe BL wants the rights to the sequel of the film she took over. And this is the way to 1) destroy Baldoni and 2) buy
the rights. Also makes the legal action make more sense.

Will be interested in seeing how this plays out in court.

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Anonymous wrote:If I was her and feeling uncomfortable and harassed and in conflict with the director or I was him feeling like someone was unfairly accusing me of things and trying to take over my movie, there is no way I could act out intimate love scenes with someone.

Obviously I am not an actor but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t put all my real life feelings aside and act out a love story or be physically affectionate.

Agree with this. A major takeaway for me here is that being a Hollywood actor and working on movies like this is actually kind of a crap job. You probably have so little control over who you wind up working with and it's crazy how these two clearly just never saw eye to eye or liked each other but still had to spend months faking a love affair on camera.

Never been more grateful for my boring white collar job where I never, ever have to kiss anyone for work, much less a colleague I find incredibly annoying. #blessed

It seems like not getting along on set is not all that uncommon. I think a lot of actresses could just buckle down and do it and it’s not that big of a deal. Blake seems to not takes acting all that seriously so maybe it was harder. She’s got five other businesses or whatever. She seemed more interested in the costumes and the premier and her hair stuff.

That said, it is rumored that 2 actresses on The Good Wife - the lead actress and the woman who played the investigator - couldn’t stand to be in the same room. So it happens.

The Good Wife drama between the Wife and the Investigator - they hated each other so much that the Wife insisted they should film their last scene together — where they sit side by side in a bar together and talk — separately and CGI it together. Good times.

I will say that if I had to deal with what I considered to be intrusively overfamiliar and sexual behavior from a director/actor (he unexpectedly turned a slow dancing scene into a kissing assault, hired his bro friend to play catcher at the foot of my spread open vagina during the delivery scene, and showed up in my trailer against my wishes when I was indisposed), I would think the person who advised me that I “just needed to buckle down” didn’t really understand my situation and didn’t really care.

Well that he was shot at the beginning of the movie so I don’t think even all those things had happened yet. It was May 2023 and that’s when they had started shooting. I’m sure a few of those things that happen but not the whole list.

But you’re right, I don’t have a lot of sympathy because I think she didn’t get along with her coaster and then tried to take the movie from him. We wouldn’t even be seeing that scene if our team had known that there was audio. She thought she could lie about a few things or exaggerate. The whole it smells good was so absolutely ridiculous I can’t even believe we’re still talking about it.

One thing we haven’t talked about in the scene is when he tells her she and Ryan are cute and she says we’re more than cute. What the hell does that even mean? I think she feels condescended to by him, which is fair, but it’s just such a smug, power move. We get it, you have a lot of power, you’re eventually going take this movie from this guy. It’s clear of their intent from the start.

I don’t think you are understanding the conversation. “That’s cute” in the tone he used is kind of a smarmy insult. He doesn’t say “oh that’s lovely” or “fun!” or even “that’s too much work for me!” Or whatever, but “That’s cute” in THAT tone. It’s an insult and a power move in itself. Urban dictionary agrees. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=That%27s%20Cute

Have you never been told “that’s cute” by someone, in a tone, who clearly means the opposite?

Look at your overreactive judginess of her follow up when you seem to think “that’s cute” in this context is a compliment and don’t even understand wtf is going on. smdh

“Fun!” would get me way more than “that’s cute.” I can’t think of any response that wouldn’t sound patronizing here—because he clearly thinks she needs to be treated with kid gloves and he probably is humoring her. He tries a curt “it’s cute” first, and then when that’s not enough, he has to fully kiss her a** by upgrading to “that’s amazing!”

It’s the same reason why “it smells nice” wasn’t creepy. He doesn’t even like her. He is trying to do his job and then get out of there.

+1 he’s just trying to appease her and get the scene done. She sounds difficult.

He can’t win. If he’s more acting the tough director then it’s a hostile work environment and if he’s trying to tamp it down and placate her he is being condescending and running a bad set.

This scene was shot in May 2023. They had not been working together that long. Unless we’re going to find out in the first few days of the shoot he groped her or ogled her or screamed at her, I’m just not sure why the relationship would be that bad. There just wasn’t time for a lot of the incidents that she laid out to even happen yet. She seemed like she was laying the stakes down from the start and making it clear who was calling the shots.

And in her defense, it is likely to get her to do this movie they promised her some creative control. I’m sure he told her he was collaborative and wanted her input. I mean from the start they let her do the wardrobe. She was a producer from the start, even though she was not an executive producer. I’m sure that caused issues but but it seemed like a reasonable thing to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Poll: Do you believe Justin Baldoni sexually harassed Blake Lively? Put aside who has the better argument, who will score legal victories, etc. What is your personal verdict?

I’m just a middle aged mom but I’m not convinced of her claim.

+1

Especially since her people released edited/doctored text messages.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake does it to herself. She admits to blackface in an interview: "I put bronzer all over myself and a Scary Spice ‘fro so I think they’d think I was a Black girl."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/blake-lively-accused-horrified-fans-34533597

Her racism is separate from the sexual harassment issue of course but she's such a PR nightmare on her own. No one has to destry her when she does it to herself so well.

Just LOOK at all the money his PR team is spending looking at old tapes of her from 20 years ago (this was 2006) and making them news again. This must be costing him a fortune. He had better get something out of this lawsuit because he might be spending his entire TEWU payout on the suit.

If she is a racist (and that was a stupid and suspect thing to say but note also that it was 20 years ago so wouldn’t she have been about 20 years old?), that does not mean she can’t be sexually harassed.

What you are saying is that she is such an awful person that we shouldn’t care if she was or not. Similar to the Amber Heard PR strategy. Kill the person in the media and the verdict you want will follow.

You are gross, and I don’t respect you.

She said what she said ok?!