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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should he have apologized for things he didn't do? That would have been used against him. I think denying / no response was fine. Leaving would be better but perhaps they were blocked or forced to stay[/quote]

PP here. I definitely don't think he should have apologized for anything he didn't do. That was Heath's phrasing, not mine. Heath said that he thought Baldoni should have apologized, or that that was the correct way to deal with the issue, and that Baldoni couldn't do that so Heath did. I also thought that was weird.

There's no indication that they were prevented from leaving. I think the concern was that shooting was supposed to resume the next day and that if they couldn't come to some agreement on the 4th, Lively would not return to set on the 5th. That's an expensive problem. However, knowing that this meeting was first raised in early November, it then becomes a question as to why it wasn't scheduled earlier, and why Wayfarer/Sony had not been working with Lively all along to make sure she was good to rejoin production on the 5th. That they apparently showed up to this meeting not even understanding it was going to be about Lively's concerns about behavior on set, even though the document her lawyers had sent two months prior literally says that she wants such a meeting, makes no sense.

I hope not all movies are run this way and that this is an extreme outlier due to Wayfarer being a tiny and disorganized studio, Lively being more demanding or difficult than typical, and the weird set up with Sony where they were trying to avoid getting involved even though multiple parties were begging them to. If this is normal, why does anyone want to make movies? Sounds like hell on earth. I would quit my job yesterday if this is how my workplace was run. I'd go get some $15/hr retail job before I dealt with this level of incompetence. Just a hard no.[/quote]

Pretty much most sets are. It is chaotic and stressful and full of egos. There are huge budgetary pressures to get things done and then you have celebs like Blake throwing wrenches into things by saying I don’t wanna come in for a fitting. come to my apartment. which is documented that she did and things like switching the location from Boston to New Jersey, which is another thing that she did… and Ryan sending an email asking them to change the production schedule so that he can keep his family together while shooting Deadpool.

Have you ever arranged a work event with even like 20 people? can you imagine someone emailing you a couple weeks before asking you to move the meeting? I would sob lol. And Jenny Slate wanting $15,000 to change her housing because I thought it was too small I think.

Cameron Diaz has come out and said she has never been on a set that at least didn’t have a little workplace hostility, inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment.

So not justifying but a lot of sets are highly dysfunctional and this was a bad combination because you have a lower budget film with a huge celebrity. Blake is strange because she’s not an a list actress, but she is an huge celebrity. And did you read her email to the head of WME, her and Ryan’s talent agency? Who has nothing to do with this movie? she went on and on in an unhinged email about how she was not at a good weight for the body scenes and she needed him to intervene and move the body scenes to the end of the shoot and that she was working out four hours a day, but she still couldn’t lose the weight. It was absolutely so unhinged and so inappropriate to email the head of an agency that.

So yea I think Sony and wayfarer felt a lot of pressure.

But agree it was totally mismanaged by all. I think all these people sound absolutely insufferable. [/quote]

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