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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article on Medium about Blake and Ryan’s racist past and the irony that she found shooting the scene with a prosthetic belly, black briefs and a hospital gown humiliating and invasive yet is demanding full access to Natasha Heath’s birth video.

Also had a chilling photo from their wedding set up in front of the slaves quarters. I also didn’t realize how crazy out of touch her lifestyle brand was - I knew it was called Preserve but I didn’t realize it was all about the antebellum south.

https://medium.com/@eumoniadike/blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-tried-to-prevent-a-black-man-from-defending-himself-in-court-and-275155890477[/quote]

This article is weird because it lumps clueless at best and most likely racist behavior on Blake's part with tangentially tying Ryan to the death of a black woman on one of his sets. I think the article is written to somehow imply that race was an issue in that case, but doesn't even suggest that and doesn't suggest that Ryan had anything at all to do with what happened. The only tie is that he was making the movie and while his production company wasn't actually even a defendant in her family's suit, the suit settled after they threatened to add a large number of parties including that production company. I actually think it's incredibly sloppy journalism to equate that to Blake's Antebellum racist nightmare and it makes me think the author had an agenda... making me question whether the Snipes and Johnson anecdotes have anything to do with race (which it's really not clear that they do even by the article's terms).

Ultimately, I am uncomfortable by the work the article does to paint badmouth Reynolds and suspect it is likely a hit piece of the type Stephanie Jones has been behind and the article criticizes.[/quote]

Disagree that it is sloppy journalism. There is a pattern here. Blake might have acted the same way had JH been white, but the optics are that a black man pulled out his phone to show her something, and she immediately thought it was p-rn. and not only that she let people think that for two weeks in between when the New York Times article ran and when Justin Baldoni’s team got their website up and showed he wasn’t showing her p-rn at work - he was showing her his wife’s birth video in the context of a discussion of a birth scene in the movie. Combine that with the fact that this woman had a lifestyle brand celebrating the antebellum south, and pictures of her wedding meal set up, literally in front of what are very obvious slave quarters.

I actually do think it’s telling that the woman who died on Deadpool was a Black woman. The stunt was supposed to be performed a different way and at the last minute, they changed their mind and let it go without safety precautions. Now clearly no one wanted her to die and it was a tragic accident, but her family had every right to ask for a settlement given the mistakes that were made and the fact that they had to threaten to go public to get the settlement is appalling and inhumane.

Ryan is Deadpool. I don’t just mean it’s his character. It was his set. He has a huge leadership role in that franchise. He, and the people he surrounded himself with to make this franchise, completely disregarded this woman and her family and it’s gross.

I don’t think these things are just random coincidences. These are thoughtless people who sail through life with an incredible disregard for others. [/quote]

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