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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I kept seeing mentions of Alex Saks deposition on Reddit in conversations about the case so I finally went and read it. It's here for anyone else who wants to see it: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1072.15.pdf

Alex Saks was a producer on the film. She was hired directly by Baldoni but she also worked with Sony a lot (specifically Ange Gianetti at Sony who was Sony's major "creative" on the film). She was on set almost every day of filming and present for many of the critical meetings including the Jan. 4 meeting. However she was not present for many of the alleged moments of SH. She had close relationships with not only Justin and Jamey but also Blake, Jenny Slate (this turns out to be very important), and many of the production heads on the movie (like people who headed up different departments like set design or costuming).

I have to say have reading her deposition, I still don't know if Blake was SHed or retaliated against BUT it leaves me with an extremely low opinion of Justin and Jamey. What Saks describes of her own observations of their behavior is really bad. It actually kind of gave me flashbacks to the worst job I've ever had.

She describes Justin, in particular, as a narcissist. She describes multiple occasions when he yelled at her in work meetings, and one where he yelled at her on set while banging his hands on a chair next to her that she said made her feel physically unsafe (she says she told other producers that if something like that happened again, she would walk off the film).

She also describes Jenny Slate coming to her and expressing major concerns about Justin and Jamey, concerns that were so strong that she reached out to Ange Gianetti at Sony to say that she thought Justin needed to be replaced as director and that Jamey needed to be removed from the set. Saks says that Jenny Slate told her she would be happy to never see Jamey ever again. This was all *before* Saks was even made aware of any of the stuff Blake later alleged against Justin or Jamey. It sounds like Saks had major issues with Justin and Jamey before production even started, and that the reason Saks' first started raising questions with Wayfarer about potential HR violations or problems, was all based on what Jenny told her, not Blake.

Also Saks says that when she repeatedly suggested that Wayfarer conduct an HR investigation into what had happened with Jenny, Jamey ultimately shut it down because he didn't want there to be a record of any of it.

Saks also explains that she fully supported the decision to fire July Bloom as 1st AD because, according to Saks, the combination of the very "green" Wayfarer team and Bloom, who was coming from TV and didn't have a good handle on the level of communication and other requirements for a good film AD. Saks describes the set prior to the strike as being extremely disorganized and unpleasant to work on, and blames Justin and Jamey for this.

Saks also says she fully supported Blake getting the PGA mark and felt Blake's work on the film merited the credit.

I don't know, this is starting to look very bad for Wayfarer. It was kind of startling to see it laid out like that. I think if Jenny and Isabelle Ferrer's depositions are similar, this just becomes very ugly for Justin and Jamey. You can say what you want about Blake having her own issues, but when this many women on the set of a move just HATE the two men running it, you have to start asking if maybe the problem isn't the female star but actually with the two dude everyone can't stand and complains about.[/quote]

Alex also said a lot of bad things about Blake, “warning” WF multiple times in texts that Blake was trying t take over the film.  . She clearly tried to play both sides, and would be an easily impeachable witnesss by either side.

It doesn’t look bad  for Wayfarer because this is just people who didn’t like each other, not sexual harassment.[/quote]

Exactly.[/quote]

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