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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is Justin Baldoni explaining what he was trying to do with a scene in which his character, Ryle, r*pes Lively's character, Lily, in a jealous rage:

"For me what that scene was more about was Ryle feeling like had lost all power and feeling so insecure and jealous that the only way in his mind that he could show her how much he loved her was um and I won't say the word that we used in developing it, but what was essentially to force any love she had for Atlas out of her. So Ryle's motivation, if you're talking about character motivation, or why he did what he did, from the filmmaking perspective and from the actor perspective, was um he was trying to, in his twisted mind, love... Atlas out of her. There's another word we used and I'm sure in your imagination you can go from there."

And after that SONY wanted him to stop doing press for the movie because Oh. My. God.[/quote]

To be clear, he said this to a reporter at the Dallas Morning News during the early stages of his press tour. Not privately or in text. He said it to the press while trying to promote a move about domestic violence.[/quote]

Um, he’s describing the scene in the movie. This is pretty much spot on and I don’t see the problem.[/quote]

It's fine for him to discuss that with an acting coach or a director, or talk about it in an acting class. But it was an interview to promote the movie.

Sony did research to find out what test audience wanted to see in the movie and what they didn't, and had a list of "don't's". One of them was to not try to humanize Ryle or make the movie about his journey. Audiences said they wanted to hear about Lily's empowerment, and not to over focus on the abuse or on Ryle.

So this was actually very in appropriate choice from Baldoni. It was actually Sony that flagged that flagged it because it was so problematic.[/quote]

There was no backlash against Justin for the way he marketed the film. Blake comes off as really immature. The purpose of art is to explore complexity. It’s a movie not a PSA. That’s why this ended up being basically a lifetime movie with no chance at an award.[/quote]

Maybe there was no backlash because when he did dumb stuff like this, Blake didn't hire Melissa Nathan and Jed Wallace to "boost" it online or seed negative comments about it on Reddit. [/quote]

Blake is getting pretty bad press right now. Is Baldoni boosting that too? Or could it be everyone read the filings and realized she’s a sociopath?![/quote]

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