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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are so many journalists taking Blake's side and insistent on this notion that pro-Baldoni supporters are alt-righters? It's ridiculous. There was that mommy sleuths article in Glamour. And the latest dumb take is from Slate, by Heather Schwedel:

"It’s Lively contention that the public’s sudden dislike for her didn’t spring out of nowhere and in fact had a clear cause: a smear campaign orchestrated by her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni and his associates. She filed a legal complaint against them in December, alleging that the effort to ruin her reputation was retaliation for Lively speaking out about the uncomfortable environment on the film’s set. Baldoni fought back, filing a lawsuit against the New York Times, which reported on Lively’s complaint, as well as Lively herself, alleging that their conflict was a result not of his misconduct but her efforts to wrest control of the movie from him. Initially, Lively seemed to seize back some goodwill and prompt reflection among some of the people who had joined the pile-on against her, but as the weeks wore on, public reaction congealed into something else entirely: Support for Baldoni built into a full-fledged online movement, with the flames fanned by right-wingers taking up the cause and Baldoni’s own legal team, which fed his supporters a steady stream of content on which to perform half-baked analysis. Every new bit of information only confirmed their belief in Baldoni’s innocence. When, for instance, Baldoni’s side released a rambling, apologetic, over-familiar voice note he recorded for Lively during filming, it didn’t matter that many reasonable people were creeped out by it—to Baldoni supporters, it was yet more evidence of Lively’s lies."

https://slate.com/life/2025/05/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-ryan-reynolds-lawsuit.html[/quote]

I don’t understand the take that Blake was popular before all this. She had a series of total bomb movies prior to this movie. A simple favor was moderately successful, but it was very much an ensemble with Anna Kendrick, who has made over 400 billion at the box office, and again, the movie was moderately successful.

Her lifestyle brand had failed before that, and she had a bunch of other box office failures. She threw a lot of money in a campaign to get the Barbie roll and that failed. She tried to do another lifestyle brand and that failed. I just don’t get this take the Blake was popular. She married well and was friends with Taylor, but now that’s over.
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