Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

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Anonymous wrote:What a mess, I would be livid if I were Jenny Slate

Me too.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, they got a woman who was whining about a luxury apartment, then given $15,000 by a generous rich guy, and then whines to HR they he only gave her the reimbursement to move because he… values motherhood? These people are batshit.

No good deed goes unpunished in Hollyweird. Pit of vipers.

There are millions of working mothers at dead-end jobs who wish their bosses would merely give them a day off work once in a while. These people are scammers living in lala land.

If all he'd said was "I really value motherhood," there is no way it would have been some kind of reported incident. Jenny Slate is, by all accounts, a fairly normal, pleasant person. I just don't believe she'd report the incident to anyone if he said something that innocuous. I don't know what he said (and neither do you), but it definitely wasn't "I just really value motherhood."

You say in this comment that you don’t know
what he said, but then go on to say you definitely know what he didn’t say. lol.

I feel confident he didn't say "I really value motherhood" because that's a totally innocuous statement and I simply do not believe that an actress with zero history of diva-ish behavior on set would get so upset about that she would report it to HR. It makes no sense. Slate has been low key and non-litigious, I think it's unfair to assume she'd do something flatly ridiculous.

Zero history of diva behavior? She was literally whining in vivid detail about a luxury apt to her rich boss. She knew exactly what she was doing.

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Anonymous wrote:This article (from August) is an interesting read, wherein the Wayfarer leadership discuss their business model and goals as a studio.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffconway/2024/08/08/meet-the-wayfarer-studios-team-bringing-it-ends-with-us-to-theaters/

In my opinion, the most interesting part of it is the part where Justin discusses Wayfarer's decision to partner with Sony on It Ends With Us (note: Sony was not just the distributor but also reportedly co-financed the film):

Justin is quoted as saying: "We ended up deciding to partner with Sony. We talked internally about it [at Wayfarer] - Well, should we make this on our own completely, or should we partner? We talked for a while about that, because on one hand, we were starting something that we wanted to be able to control completely, but on the other hand, we wanted to make sure that this had the best chance of being seen by as many people as possible.”

Sure seems like this suggests that as of August (after ALL of the alleged “steal the movie” stuff happened), Baldoni still recognized that Wayfarer had made the conscious strategic decision to give up some measure of control over the film in favor of making a movie with a bigger chance for significant box office success.

What an intelligent parse - that’s what I’m here for, the honesty, the legitimacy. He truly said in so many words, “Blake, please rewrite scenes, re-costume the character and up the wardrobe spend by a couple hundred thousand, please lobby everyone in writing for a PGA credit after being sick 6 times in a row - I loved your work taking 6 months off of The Rhythm Section for a knuckle injury- and then please ask Colleen Hoover to treat me like something underfoot. After all, I am trying to grow my studio by partnering with Sony!”

He did tell her to rewrite scenes. On April 7th (pre filming) Blake texted about the meet cute scene..."You ok if I play around with some or the dialogue or give her a bit more agency and....We can use some or all or none of it. I just don't want to step on any toes"

Baldoni answered "F*** yes. I couldn't agree more.....go play and then we can see how it feels together."

And I can't find the other text at the moment but also in April and it was about the rooftop scene - she asked if she could work on it or tell her to stand down if he didn't want her to and again he offered unbridled enthusiasm for her to take it on.

Reread what you quoted and wrote. No he did not request that she rewrite, descriptive term for you that I’m not allowed to add.

She did it and asked if he’d be okay with it. Not the same.

I agree. I didn't say he requested her to do them. She asked and gave him an out both times and he responded with unbridled enthusiasm that yes, he wanted her to work on these scenes. I edited out some of the quotes as they are both long winded but he talks about this is what he wanted, this kind of collaboration and them working together and that while he tried to give her character a voice, he wants her to give it a more authentic voice etc. This was all April (before filming started).

Yes, was going to say this. I get that she was pushing to have input but I kept reading his complaint waiting for where he or someone else at Wayfarer was going to say to her "look, you're overstepping, the is outside your job," but it just never happens. I do think she has a pushy personality and was seeking to make her role as big as possible, but I also think they seem to be giving her the impression that this was welcome while then shttalking her behind her back. It is a weird dynamic that I think made the situation much worse. They had real communication issues and they can't all be blamed on Lively.

I think too why they bonded initially was that both have this creative drive to be authentic to the characters. I think there wa good will on both sides initially and Justin wanted Blake's input to make this the most authentic, best ever, woman driven character and Blake wanted to also make it the character that in her mind was most authentic. I think this is the quirky artist in both of them. Things went south when filming started but on the surface they both kept up the initial connection for awhile before everything fell apart. I get the sense they both see themselves as deep connected to the art authentic artists. At some point Wayfarer should have stepped in and said enough and at some point Blake seemed to be in for the role and recognition but they both carried on a charade for a long time...in parallel to the behavioral issues on set that they were speaking about and dealing with. It is a weird dynamic.

Lively didn’t even read the book. WTAF at the idea that she wanted to be true to the character as defined by the book she refused to read.

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Anonymous wrote:This article (from August) is an interesting read, wherein the Wayfarer leadership discuss their business model and goals as a studio.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffconway/2024/08/08/meet-the-wayfarer-studios-team-bringing-it-ends-with-us-to-theaters/

In my opinion, the most interesting part of it is the part where Justin discusses Wayfarer's decision to partner with Sony on It Ends With Us (note: Sony was not just the distributor but also reportedly co-financed the film):

Justin is quoted as saying: "We ended up deciding to partner with Sony. We talked internally about it [at Wayfarer] - Well, should we make this on our own completely, or should we partner? We talked for a while about that, because on one hand, we were starting something that we wanted to be able to control completely, but on the other hand, we wanted to make sure that this had the best chance of being seen by as many people as possible.”

Sure seems like this suggests that as of August (after ALL of the alleged “steal the movie” stuff happened), Baldoni still recognized that Wayfarer had made the conscious strategic decision to give up some measure of control over the film in favor of making a movie with a bigger chance for significant box office success.

What an intelligent parse - that’s what I’m here for, the honesty, the legitimacy. He truly said in so many words, “Blake, please rewrite scenes, re-costume the character and up the wardrobe spend by a couple hundred thousand, please lobby everyone in writing for a PGA credit after being sick 6 times in a row - I loved your work taking 6 months off of The Rhythm Section for a knuckle injury- and then please ask Colleen Hoover to treat me like something underfoot. After all, I am trying to grow my studio by partnering with Sony!”

He did tell her to rewrite scenes. On April 7th (pre filming) Blake texted about the meet cute scene..."You ok if I play around with some or the dialogue or give her a bit more agency and....We can use some or all or none of it. I just don't want to step on any toes"

Baldoni answered "F*** yes. I couldn't agree more.....go play and then we can see how it feels together."

And I can't find the other text at the moment but also in April and it was about the rooftop scene - she asked if she could work on it or tell her to stand down if he didn't want her to and again he offered unbridled enthusiasm for her to take it on.

Reread what you quoted and wrote. No he did not request that she rewrite, descriptive term for you that I’m not allowed to add.

She did it and asked if he’d be okay with it. Not the same.

I agree. I didn't say he requested her to do them. She asked and gave him an out both times and he responded with unbridled enthusiasm that yes, he wanted her to work on these scenes. I edited out some of the quotes as they are both long winded but he talks about this is what he wanted, this kind of collaboration and them working together and that while he tried to give her character a voice, he wants her to give it a more authentic voice etc. This was all April (before filming started).

Yes, was going to say this. I get that she was pushing to have input but I kept reading his complaint waiting for where he or someone else at Wayfarer was going to say to her "look, you're overstepping, the is outside your job," but it just never happens. I do think she has a pushy personality and was seeking to make her role as big as possible, but I also think they seem to be giving her the impression that this was welcome while then shttalking her behind her back. It is a weird dynamic that I think made the situation much worse. They had real communication issues and they can't all be blamed on Lively.

I think too why they bonded initially was that both have this creative drive to be authentic to the characters. I think there wa good will on both sides initially and Justin wanted Blake's input to make this the most authentic, best ever, woman driven character and Blake wanted to also make it the character that in her mind was most authentic. I think this is the quirky artist in both of them. Things went south when filming started but on the surface they both kept up the initial connection for awhile before everything fell apart. I get the sense they both see themselves as deep connected to the art authentic artists. At some point Wayfarer should have stepped in and said enough and at some point Blake seemed to be in for the role and recognition but they both carried on a charade for a long time...in parallel to the behavioral issues on set that they were speaking about and dealing with. It is a weird dynamic.

Lively didn’t even read the book. WTAF at the idea that she wanted to be true to the character as defined by the book she refused to read.

Maybe Ryan read the book, and that’s why he wrote the rooftop scene.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, they got a woman who was whining about a luxury apartment, then given $15,000 by a generous rich guy, and then whines to HR they he only gave her the reimbursement to move because he… values motherhood? These people are batshit.

No good deed goes unpunished in Hollyweird. Pit of vipers.

There are millions of working mothers at dead-end jobs who wish their bosses would merely give them a day off work once in a while. These people are scammers living in lala land.

If all he'd said was "I really value motherhood," there is no way it would have been some kind of reported incident. Jenny Slate is, by all accounts, a fairly normal, pleasant person. I just don't believe she'd report the incident to anyone if he said something that innocuous. I don't know what he said (and neither do you), but it definitely wasn't "I just really value motherhood."

Someone posted a comment of hers from when she had a Reddit account. She said that during her time on SNL she asked people to stop saying “now is the time for women in comedy.” She said it was patronizing to women. She didn’t want her gender to define her.

I have no problem with that. But she might have a sensitivity here that she spoke out about and that was addressed. Something that would never even be a blip is it weren’t for this crazy case.

So she’s a batshit feminist who serial plays the gender card? Got it. But not feminist enough to not whine to a rich male boss to get him to cover relocation expenses because her luxury apt isn’t posh enough. Or whatever. And use her kid as a guilt-tripping excuse. Then run to HR that her single mom guilt-tripping worked on the rich male mark and he allegedly said something creepy or offensive. Was she trying to shake him down for more or was that just an assist to BL in this broader scheme? Who freaking knows. These wackos live in the clouds. Nobody normal reads this babble and sees victims. Bunch of coddled phonies and scammers.

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Anonymous wrote:This article (from August) is an interesting read, wherein the Wayfarer leadership discuss their business model and goals as a studio.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffconway/2024/08/08/meet-the-wayfarer-studios-team-bringing-it-ends-with-us-to-theaters/

In my opinion, the most interesting part of it is the part where Justin discusses Wayfarer's decision to partner with Sony on It Ends With Us (note: Sony was not just the distributor but also reportedly co-financed the film):

Justin is quoted as saying: "We ended up deciding to partner with Sony. We talked internally about it [at Wayfarer] - Well, should we make this on our own completely, or should we partner? We talked for a while about that, because on one hand, we were starting something that we wanted to be able to control completely, but on the other hand, we wanted to make sure that this had the best chance of being seen by as many people as possible.”

Sure seems like this suggests that as of August (after ALL of the alleged “steal the movie” stuff happened), Baldoni still recognized that Wayfarer had made the conscious strategic decision to give up some measure of control over the film in favor of making a movie with a bigger chance for significant box office success.

What an intelligent parse - that’s what I’m here for, the honesty, the legitimacy. He truly said in so many words, “Blake, please rewrite scenes, re-costume the character and up the wardrobe spend by a couple hundred thousand, please lobby everyone in writing for a PGA credit after being sick 6 times in a row - I loved your work taking 6 months off of The Rhythm Section for a knuckle injury- and then please ask Colleen Hoover to treat me like something underfoot. After all, I am trying to grow my studio by partnering with Sony!”

He did tell her to rewrite scenes. On April 7th (pre filming) Blake texted about the meet cute scene..."You ok if I play around with some or the dialogue or give her a bit more agency and....We can use some or all or none of it. I just don't want to step on any toes"

Baldoni answered "F*** yes. I couldn't agree more.....go play and then we can see how it feels together."

And I can't find the other text at the moment but also in April and it was about the rooftop scene - she asked if she could work on it or tell her to stand down if he didn't want her to and again he offered unbridled enthusiasm for her to take it on.

Reread what you quoted and wrote. No he did not request that she rewrite, descriptive term for you that I’m not allowed to add.

She did it and asked if he’d be okay with it. Not the same.

I agree. I didn't say he requested her to do them. She asked and gave him an out both times and he responded with unbridled enthusiasm that yes, he wanted her to work on these scenes. I edited out some of the quotes as they are both long winded but he talks about this is what he wanted, this kind of collaboration and them working together and that while he tried to give her character a voice, he wants her to give it a more authentic voice etc. This was all April (before filming started).

Yes, was going to say this. I get that she was pushing to have input but I kept reading his complaint waiting for where he or someone else at Wayfarer was going to say to her "look, you're overstepping, the is outside your job," but it just never happens. I do think she has a pushy personality and was seeking to make her role as big as possible, but I also think they seem to be giving her the impression that this was welcome while then shttalking her behind her back. It is a weird dynamic that I think made the situation much worse. They had real communication issues and they can't all be blamed on Lively.

I think too why they bonded initially was that both have this creative drive to be authentic to the characters. I think there wa good will on both sides initially and Justin wanted Blake's input to make this the most authentic, best ever, woman driven character and Blake wanted to also make it the character that in her mind was most authentic. I think this is the quirky artist in both of them. Things went south when filming started but on the surface they both kept up the initial connection for awhile before everything fell apart. I get the sense they both see themselves as deep connected to the art authentic artists. At some point Wayfarer should have stepped in and said enough and at some point Blake seemed to be in for the role and recognition but they both carried on a charade for a long time...in parallel to the behavioral issues on set that they were speaking about and dealing with. It is a weird dynamic.

Lively didn’t even read the book. WTAF at the idea that she wanted to be true to the character as defined by the book she refused to read.

Maybe Ryan read the book, and that’s why he wrote the rooftop scene.

[Anonymous]

My boss gave me $15,000 after I whined to him but he was allegedly slightly chauvinist when he did it.

lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, they got a woman who was whining about a luxury apartment, then given $15,000 by a generous rich guy, and then whines to HR they he only gave her the reimbursement to move because he… values motherhood? These people are batshit.

No good deed goes unpunished in Hollyweird. Pit of vipers.

There are millions of working mothers at dead-end jobs who wish their bosses would merely give them a day off work once in a while. These people are scammers living in lala land.

If all he'd said was "I really value motherhood," there is no way it would have been some kind of reported incident. Jenny Slate is, by all accounts, a fairly normal, pleasant person. I just don't believe she'd report the incident to anyone if he said something that innocuous. I don't know what he said (and neither do you), but it definitely wasn't "I just really value motherhood."

Someone posted a comment of hers from when she had a Reddit account. She said that during her time on SNL she asked people to stop saying “now is the time for women in comedy.” She said it was patronizing to women. She didn’t want her gender to define her.

I have no problem with that. But she might have a sensitivity here that she spoke out about and that was addressed. Something that would never even be a blip is it weren’t for this crazy case.

Ok but again, look at how she handled it -- people were saying this thing she took issue with, so she would come back and say "please don't say that, it's patronizing." She didn't file an HR complaint. And I guarantee that the SNL writers room involves a lot more offensive and off-color jokes and comments than most film and TV sets. So again, I really struggle with believing that Heath said something totally innocuous and then Slate blew it way out of proportion and took it to HR. It just does not track at all with what I know about her as a person and the way she's conducted her career thus far. She's low key, no one has ever reported her as hard to work with, and she has a very broad and forgiving sense of humor. It just doesn't track that she flipped out about a mildly awkward statement.

I really do not know enough about Heath to know what he might have said. But I feel like I have a sense of Slate's personality and sense of humor and that makes me think he said something really off.

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Anonymous wrote:This article (from August) is an interesting read, wherein the Wayfarer leadership discuss their business model and goals as a studio.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffconway/2024/08/08/meet-the-wayfarer-studios-team-bringing-it-ends-with-us-to-theaters/

In my opinion, the most interesting part of it is the part where Justin discusses Wayfarer's decision to partner with Sony on It Ends With Us (note: Sony was not just the distributor but also reportedly co-financed the film):

Justin is quoted as saying: "We ended up deciding to partner with Sony. We talked internally about it [at Wayfarer] - Well, should we make this on our own completely, or should we partner? We talked for a while about that, because on one hand, we were starting something that we wanted to be able to control completely, but on the other hand, we wanted to make sure that this had the best chance of being seen by as many people as possible.”

Sure seems like this suggests that as of August (after ALL of the alleged “steal the movie” stuff happened), Baldoni still recognized that Wayfarer had made the conscious strategic decision to give up some measure of control over the film in favor of making a movie with a bigger chance for significant box office success.

What an intelligent parse - that’s what I’m here for, the honesty, the legitimacy. He truly said in so many words, “Blake, please rewrite scenes, re-costume the character and up the wardrobe spend by a couple hundred thousand, please lobby everyone in writing for a PGA credit after being sick 6 times in a row - I loved your work taking 6 months off of The Rhythm Section for a knuckle injury- and then please ask Colleen Hoover to treat me like something underfoot. After all, I am trying to grow my studio by partnering with Sony!”

He did tell her to rewrite scenes. On April 7th (pre filming) Blake texted about the meet cute scene..."You ok if I play around with some or the dialogue or give her a bit more agency and....We can use some or all or none of it. I just don't want to step on any toes"

Baldoni answered "F*** yes. I couldn't agree more.....go play and then we can see how it feels together."

And I can't find the other text at the moment but also in April and it was about the rooftop scene - she asked if she could work on it or tell her to stand down if he didn't want her to and again he offered unbridled enthusiasm for her to take it on.

Reread what you quoted and wrote. No he did not request that she rewrite, descriptive term for you that I’m not allowed to add.

She did it and asked if he’d be okay with it. Not the same.

I agree. I didn't say he requested her to do them. She asked and gave him an out both times and he responded with unbridled enthusiasm that yes, he wanted her to work on these scenes. I edited out some of the quotes as they are both long winded but he talks about this is what he wanted, this kind of collaboration and them working together and that while he tried to give her character a voice, he wants her to give it a more authentic voice etc. This was all April (before filming started).

Yes, was going to say this. I get that she was pushing to have input but I kept reading his complaint waiting for where he or someone else at Wayfarer was going to say to her "look, you're overstepping, the is outside your job," but it just never happens. I do think she has a pushy personality and was seeking to make her role as big as possible, but I also think they seem to be giving her the impression that this was welcome while then shttalking her behind her back. It is a weird dynamic that I think made the situation much worse. They had real communication issues and they can't all be blamed on Lively.

I think too why they bonded initially was that both have this creative drive to be authentic to the characters. I think there wa good will on both sides initially and Justin wanted Blake's input to make this the most authentic, best ever, woman driven character and Blake wanted to also make it the character that in her mind was most authentic. I think this is the quirky artist in both of them. Things went south when filming started but on the surface they both kept up the initial connection for awhile before everything fell apart. I get the sense they both see themselves as deep connected to the art authentic artists. At some point Wayfarer should have stepped in and said enough and at some point Blake seemed to be in for the role and recognition but they both carried on a charade for a long time...in parallel to the behavioral issues on set that they were speaking about and dealing with. It is a weird dynamic.

Lively didn’t even read the book. WTAF at the idea that she wanted to be true to the character as defined by the book she refused to read.

That's not how it works though. She wasn't playing the character in the book. She was playing the character in the script, which was an adaptation of the book. And they made significant changes to the character from the book because they decided they wanted to make both leads much older and cast older actors. The character in the book was 23 years old.

Unless the allegation is that Lively refused to read the script, this criticism just doesn't fly. She wasn't narrating an audiobook. Her character was NOT defined by the book but by the film script, which she obviously read. A lot of actors choose not to read the original book when filming adaptations, at least not at the beginning when building the character, because especially if there are significant differences between the book and the movie, it might actually inhibit their ability to play the character.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, they got a woman who was whining about a luxury apartment, then given $15,000 by a generous rich guy, and then whines to HR they he only gave her the reimbursement to move because he… values motherhood? These people are batshit.

No good deed goes unpunished in Hollyweird. Pit of vipers.

There are millions of working mothers at dead-end jobs who wish their bosses would merely give them a day off work once in a while. These people are scammers living in lala land.

If all he'd said was "I really value motherhood," there is no way it would have been some kind of reported incident. Jenny Slate is, by all accounts, a fairly normal, pleasant person. I just don't believe she'd report the incident to anyone if he said something that innocuous. I don't know what he said (and neither do you), but it definitely wasn't "I just really value motherhood."

Someone posted a comment of hers from when she had a Reddit account. She said that during her time on SNL she asked people to stop saying “now is the time for women in comedy.” She said it was patronizing to women. She didn’t want her gender to define her.

I have no problem with that. But she might have a sensitivity here that she spoke out about and that was addressed. Something that would never even be a blip is it weren’t for this crazy case.

Ok but again, look at how she handled it -- people were saying this thing she took issue with, so she would come back and say "please don't say that, it's patronizing." She didn't file an HR complaint. And I guarantee that the SNL writers room involves a lot more offensive and off-color jokes and comments than most film and TV sets. So again, I really struggle with believing that Heath said something totally innocuous and then Slate blew it way out of proportion and took it to HR. It just does not track at all with what I know about her as a person and the way she's conducted her career thus far. She's low key, no one has ever reported her as hard to work with, and she has a very broad and forgiving sense of humor. It just doesn't track that she flipped out about a mildly awkward statement.

I really do not know enough about Heath to know what he might have said. But I feel like I have a sense of Slate's personality and sense of humor and that makes me think he said something really off.

Actually it perfectly tracks with a manipulative scam artist diva who was shaking down her boss for $15,000 because her luxury apt wasn’t up to her standards. $15,000 is a year of rent for an average American.

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So she’s a batshit feminist who serial plays the gender card? Got it. But not feminist enough to not whine to a rich male boss to get him to cover relocation expenses because her luxury apt isn’t posh enough. Or whatever. And use her kid as a guilt-tripping excuse. Then run to HR that her single mom guilt-tripping worked on the rich male mark and he allegedly said something creepy or offensive. Was she trying to shake him down for more or was that just an assist to BL in this broader scheme? Who freaking knows. These wackos live in the clouds. Nobody normal reads this babble and sees victims. Bunch of coddled phonies and scammers.

Careful

I thought the claim was that there is absolutely no misogynstic agenda behind the Baldoni support

...right?

Women upset by religious freaks telling them what their place in society is are just whining

...right?

[Anonymous]

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So she’s a batshit feminist who serial plays the gender card? Got it. But not feminist enough to not whine to a rich male boss to get him to cover relocation expenses because her luxury apt isn’t posh enough. Or whatever. And use her kid as a guilt-tripping excuse. Then run to HR that her single mom guilt-tripping worked on the rich male mark and he allegedly said something creepy or offensive. Was she trying to shake him down for more or was that just an assist to BL in this broader scheme? Who freaking knows. These wackos live in the clouds. Nobody normal reads this babble and sees victims. Bunch of coddled phonies and scammers.

Careful

I thought the claim was that there is absolutely no misogynstic agenda behind the Baldoni support

...right?

Women upset by religious freaks telling them what their place in society is are just whining

...right?

That’s right for me but I am not PP.

I have an interesting idea of where you could tattoo your ellipses.

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So she’s a batshit feminist who serial plays the gender card? Got it. But not feminist enough to not whine to a rich male boss to get him to cover relocation expenses because her luxury apt isn’t posh enough. Or whatever. And use her kid as a guilt-tripping excuse. Then run to HR that her single mom guilt-tripping worked on the rich male mark and he allegedly said something creepy or offensive. Was she trying to shake him down for more or was that just an assist to BL in this broader scheme? Who freaking knows. These wackos live in the clouds. Nobody normal reads this babble and sees victims. Bunch of coddled phonies and scammers.

Careful

I thought the claim was that there is absolutely no misogynstic agenda behind the Baldoni support

...right?

Women upset by religious freaks telling them what their place in society is are just whining

...right?

Do you have an alert set up for your cherry picking?

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Anonymous wrote:This article (from August) is an interesting read, wherein the Wayfarer leadership discuss their business model and goals as a studio.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffconway/2024/08/08/meet-the-wayfarer-studios-team-bringing-it-ends-with-us-to-theaters/

In my opinion, the most interesting part of it is the part where Justin discusses Wayfarer's decision to partner with Sony on It Ends With Us (note: Sony was not just the distributor but also reportedly co-financed the film):

Justin is quoted as saying: "We ended up deciding to partner with Sony. We talked internally about it [at Wayfarer] - Well, should we make this on our own completely, or should we partner? We talked for a while about that, because on one hand, we were starting something that we wanted to be able to control completely, but on the other hand, we wanted to make sure that this had the best chance of being seen by as many people as possible.”

Sure seems like this suggests that as of August (after ALL of the alleged “steal the movie” stuff happened), Baldoni still recognized that Wayfarer had made the conscious strategic decision to give up some measure of control over the film in favor of making a movie with a bigger chance for significant box office success.

What an intelligent parse - that’s what I’m here for, the honesty, the legitimacy. He truly said in so many words, “Blake, please rewrite scenes, re-costume the character and up the wardrobe spend by a couple hundred thousand, please lobby everyone in writing for a PGA credit after being sick 6 times in a row - I loved your work taking 6 months off of The Rhythm Section for a knuckle injury- and then please ask Colleen Hoover to treat me like something underfoot. After all, I am trying to grow my studio by partnering with Sony!”

He did tell her to rewrite scenes. On April 7th (pre filming) Blake texted about the meet cute scene..."You ok if I play around with some or the dialogue or give her a bit more agency and....We can use some or all or none of it. I just don't want to step on any toes"

Baldoni answered "F*** yes. I couldn't agree more.....go play and then we can see how it feels together."

And I can't find the other text at the moment but also in April and it was about the rooftop scene - she asked if she could work on it or tell her to stand down if he didn't want her to and again he offered unbridled enthusiasm for her to take it on.

Reread what you quoted and wrote. No he did not request that she rewrite, descriptive term for you that I’m not allowed to add.

She did it and asked if he’d be okay with it. Not the same.

I agree. I didn't say he requested her to do them. She asked and gave him an out both times and he responded with unbridled enthusiasm that yes, he wanted her to work on these scenes. I edited out some of the quotes as they are both long winded but he talks about this is what he wanted, this kind of collaboration and them working together and that while he tried to give her character a voice, he wants her to give it a more authentic voice etc. This was all April (before filming started).

But you did.

I just looked back at my posts and don't see that. Where did I say it was at his request?

“He did tell her to rewrite scenes.” Enough.

Yes, he did tell her to do that. Go play and F*** yes are pretty resounding ways to say go do it. He told her to do it in response to her request.

Moving the goalpost again. He did not say that.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, they got a woman who was whining about a luxury apartment, then given $15,000 by a generous rich guy, and then whines to HR they he only gave her the reimbursement to move because he… values motherhood? These people are batshit.

No good deed goes unpunished in Hollyweird. Pit of vipers.

There are millions of working mothers at dead-end jobs who wish their bosses would merely give them a day off work once in a while. These people are scammers living in lala land.

If all he'd said was "I really value motherhood," there is no way it would have been some kind of reported incident. Jenny Slate is, by all accounts, a fairly normal, pleasant person. I just don't believe she'd report the incident to anyone if he said something that innocuous. I don't know what he said (and neither do you), but it definitely wasn't "I just really value motherhood."

Someone posted a comment of hers from when she had a Reddit account. She said that during her time on SNL she asked people to stop saying “now is the time for women in comedy.” She said it was patronizing to women. She didn’t want her gender to define her.

I have no problem with that. But she might have a sensitivity here that she spoke out about and that was addressed. Something that would never even be a blip is it weren’t for this crazy case.

Ok but again, look at how she handled it -- people were saying this thing she took issue with, so she would come back and say "please don't say that, it's patronizing." She didn't file an HR complaint. And I guarantee that the SNL writers room involves a lot more offensive and off-color jokes and comments than most film and TV sets. So again, I really struggle with believing that Heath said something totally innocuous and then Slate blew it way out of proportion and took it to HR. It just does not track at all with what I know about her as a person and the way she's conducted her career thus far. She's low key, no one has ever reported her as hard to work with, and she has a very broad and forgiving sense of humor. It just doesn't track that she flipped out about a mildly awkward statement.

I really do not know enough about Heath to know what he might have said. But I feel like I have a sense of Slate's personality and sense of humor and that makes me think he said something really off.

He might have. But the Hollywood reporter edited its article to say “incident” instead of “complaint.” It now says the “incident” made its way back to Sony. Why would they do that? Maybe she didn’t even make an HR complaint.