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Plus Blake specifically thanked her in the movie.
And there are texts with Justin and Blake and between Justin and that other producer where they talk about how Taylor was pressuring Justin to consider using Blake’s rewrites of rooftop scene (that were actually Ryan’s rewrites, if you believe Blake’s red carpet interviews where she gives Ryan props for writing 90% of the rooftop scene)

[b]I also saw interview with the Young Lilly where she gushed about how Taylor had hand-picked her.[/b]
How would Taylor have handpicked her if she had never met Justin before the night they were all at Blake and Ryan’s apartment?[/quote]

That's what the Taylor source from TMZ is denying. Blake must have told her that, but why?? Blake herself didn't have anything to do with casting.  Maybe she's a pathological liar because that's odd. [/quote]

Just posted about this.
Baldoni tells this story in an interview he did six months ago.
So I imagine it’s one of three things:
1- he was lying about this and he knows it’s lie …and Taylor and Blake did NOT view the tape and say “yes! Her!”
Or
2–he brought the tape to Blake to view, and BLAKE reported to him that she and Taylor watched it together and they both love this girl…so he genuinely thinks Blake showed Taylor….and that’s why he repeated it. (Could be that BL told JB this just to name-drop and he thought it was cool and so HE was the one who told the young Lily actress “you were handpicked by TS.”—and now it’s lore)
Or
3–he was in the room with both Taylor and Blake and showed the tape to them …and Taylor’s people are lying.  [/quote]

I think if the story is true then most likely it was an extremely casual interaction. Like perhaps he brought the tape to Lively's apartment and Taylor was around and Lively said "hey let's look at the video, tell me if you think this actress could play a younger version of me" and Taylor watched it and was like "yes she's nailing your look and mannerisms, I buy it."

That's not really Taylor being involved creatively in the movie. That's her offering an opinion on whether or not an actress could believably play a younger version of her close friend. It's like a game you might play at a dinner party -- who would we cast as a young version of everyone else? That's not the same as Taylor being relied upon for casting. But because it's TAYLOR SWIFT it becomes a story people tell. If it were some random non famous friend, no one would care and it wouldn't get repeated in interviews.

I do think that the IEWU marketing probably liked making any connections they could between the movie and Swift because her fan base is such an obvious market for the movie. I wouldn't even be surprised if Sony identified this story at some point when crafting the marketing strategy and put it in notes for Baldoni and Lively in interviews to highlight that because an interview that mentions Taylor is more likely to get social media pick up.[/quote]

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