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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alex Sachs has absolutely has no credibility. On Reddit Someone posted her deposition about how Julie Bloom, the A.D. that Blake had fired, deserved to be fired because she was weak and didn’t have the experience for the job.

The poster came with the receipts. Julie is  a 30 year veteran of Hollywood. She’s worked on some of the most successful movies in the last 30 years, movies starring, jen Aniston, Sandra, Bullock, Will Smith, Paul Rudd, Nicole Kidman and more. Big big budget movies, much bigger than it ends with us and bigger than anything Alex has worked on.

Will be very interesting to see where Alex‘s career goes after this. Did she just not think anyone would read this?[/quote]

Saks didn't say Bloom wasn't experienced. What she said was that she had most recently been working in TV, which has different demands than a film other than pilots because working as a first AD on an existing TV show allows you to come in to an already working set.

That said, I do think Bloom was ultimately put in an impossible position and her firing was a bit of scapegoating. But not for Blake, for Baldoni. He was a weak leader and the production was sloppy and disorganized. With a stronger leader, Bloom likely would have been fine. But because Baldoni was in way of his head AND was trying to direct and act and produce, and because Heath had very limited experience producing movies (mostly smaller, lower budget movies for Wayfarer and they haven't been at it for long), that puts enormous pressure on the 1st AD to pick up the slack. Saks wanted to get rid of Baldoni and Heath, but of course they couldn't because as Ange Gianetti told her, Wayfarer isn't going to fire themselves off their own movie. So instead they replaced Bloom in the hopes of finding a 1st AD who could help overcome Baldoni's and Heath's major deficiencies. That doesn't really reflect that poorly on Bloom.

If I'm Julie Bloom right now, I'm probably grateful to have been kicked off this production given what a total mess it has become. By being fired early on, it's probably limited her legal bill in association with the lawsuit. Also, it will be abundantly clear to anyone in Hollywood that this was a dysfunctional production for reasons that had nothing to do with Bloom. It's like a badge of honor.[/quote]

It’s so funny how (1) this particular Blake bot is so easy to identify, and (2) she thinks she is convincing anyone with this blather.

Blake made Ryan “mean girled” their way through the set, and everyone understood that they had to be either with them or against them.  Against them meant getting fired, ostracized, and/or sued.   With them meant getting help securing future roles (or even instant promotions during the filming), free trips, and free pr for future projects.  I don’t think Blake will work again in Hollywood other than films financed by Lively/Reynolds[/quote]

I see. And will evidence of this theory be forthcoming? Where are the emails between Blake and cast members promising them future roles or other benefits, or threatening them with being fired or ostracized? Where are the depositions with people on set reporting that Blake was a "mean girl" or was manipulating anyone or pitting anyone against Baldoni or Heath?

If anything, evidence points to multiple other women raising issues with Baldoni and Heath prior to Blake's own experiences and way before she started complaining. Alex Saks reports being yelled at by Baldoni during Zoom calls in January and February 2023 (with witnesses, plus Baldoni sent an apology email after one of these incidents in which he states that he has been struggling with interrupting and mansplaining -- his words -- women, yes he said specifically he'd been having this problem with women). Then it was actually Jenny Slate who first reported issues with both Baldoni and Heath, to Saks, which led to Saks reporting it all to Ange Gianetti and requesting that Baldoni and Heath be pulled from the project (which Ange said would never happen since it was Wayfarer's project). And then you have Saks suggesting to Baldoni and Heath, on three separate occasions according to her deposition, that they should do a formal investigation into Slate's complaints, which they decline to do.

And only AFTER all that do Blake's complaints from the first few weeks of shooting come to light. And all of this is supported by contemporaneous emails and texts and corroborated in multiple depositions (from not just Saks, Slate, and Gianetti, but also Baldoni and Heath).

In other words, it seems like Blake merely joined a chorus of voices complaining about Baldoni and Heath. It also sounds like Jenny Slate encouraged Blake to report her concerns to Alex and to Sony, and that before that, Blake had merely been blowing off steam about her bad experiences with Jenny. So if Jenny was the instigator to getting a more formal complaint filed, how could Blake be the one tricking Jenny into joining her with promises of future roles and promotion?[/quote]

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