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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I’m the PP from above and I did find Alex’s deposition. She was asked about this incident. She did not remember Jamey ever barging into Blake’s trailer. When asked if Blake ever complained about Jamey barging into the trailer she says I don’t remember.

It feels like the makeup artist or whoever testified Jamey barged in as they were screaming don’t come on n, overplayed their hand. If an incident like that had happened Alex would have known about it, and Blake would’ve made a bigger deal in her complaint and in the New York Times article. it does sound like it was an incident that made her uncomfortable and understandable that it made the list but it’s gotten exaggerated over time, which to me makes Blake lose some credibility. It makes it seem like she’s trying to build up the list.

And it’s telling in Blake’s initial complaint that she left out the fact that she was breast-feeding. I feel like she wanted to sexualize it more by leaving that out and have people picture of Jamey just gawking  at her topless. [/quote]

Alex did know about it. There are contemporaneous texts from Alex to Ange Giannetti shortly after the meeting on June 1st, 2023, where Blake outlined all of her complaints about the set up until that point, including the incident with Heath walking into her trailer. Alex's text describes the incident as Blake has always described it.

In her deposition, Alex said she couldn't remember the meeting specifically, as there were lots of meetings on set. However she confirmed that the text message was hers and that if that's what she wrote to Ange, that must have been what happened in the meeting. Alex also said that reading the text message made her "uncomfortable" because that is an uncomfortable thing to have happened on set. She said that it should not have happened.

I personally don't think it matters that she was breastfeeding. You have a right to breastfeed at work without your boss insisting on coming in to talk to you and looking at you unclothed, when you have specifically asked for a moment to finish what you are doing and get dressed. It doesn't matter to me if Heath was looking at her in a sexual way or just looking at her because he felt he was entitled to speak to her regardless of her state of undress. [/quote]

You’re missing the point though. The fact that Alex didn’t really resonate as a big deal is significant. Yes she remembered Blake complaining about it. Yes, she remembered that it was an incident, but as described by the makeup artist, it was aggressive. As reported it would’ve been the biggest incident, if he barged and refused to leave. That goes above sexual harassment to a safety issue. that’s what one of the makeup artist described that is not at all what Blake or Alex described so it makes it seem like it’s trying to be overplayed.

It does matter if it she was breast-feeding. No one’s arguing that she doesn’t have a right to breast-feed privately at work. But it’s really telling that she left it off and she said that she was topless. She was trying to change the context to make things sound a little worse. Him staring at her topless is a very sexual act, whereas her not having total privacy breast-feeding is a problem, is a violation, but it does change the context.

And I agree with the poster about infantilizing Blake. She’s not exactly a wallflower. Literally the reason Jamey was there was she wanted to organize a meeting with all of the producers to talk about how unhappy she was on set - she was certainly at that point not afraid to voice her concerns. You really think she just sat there paralyzed and couldn’t cover herself? [/quote]

I disagree the trailer incident was the biggest one. I think based on how Blake describes the experience for her, the birth scene (followed by the birthing video) was the biggest incident for her. It is when she describes feeling "humiliated". It was also something that went on for hours, between the initial conversation about them wanting her to be topless/unclothed to finishing filming, on a set that did not appear to be secure. And then the next day having Jamey show what she initially thought was pornographic material, only to find out that it was his wife's birthing video and their attempt to *continue* to win the argument over what is "normal" for a woman to wear in childbirth. I think that was more significant for her.

As for the complaint, it's written by lawyers and is composed based on legal intentions. Lively's complaint starts with the retaliation evidence, and this is often what is the focus of her pleadings, because it is legally the strongest part of their case. It is also the primary reason she brought the lawsuit -- she has said herself (in the NYT interview I believe) that the behavior on set was upsetting but also on par with other bad experiences she's had in Hollywood. It was the PR campaign, and then I would guess seeing those messages from Abel's phone, that made her decide to sue.

Which is why I don't think anyone is infantilizing Blake. She did take action. She registered complaints with Alex, with Ange, with Jamey, with Justin. She called the June 1st meeting to make sure it was acknowledged and everyone knew. And while Alex may now claim she doesn't remember the meeting, her texts to Ange after the meeting make it clear it was a serious conversation and that Blake was very forceful in explaining why she was upset. She made requests for better conditions. When she didn't feel her complaints were being properly addressed, she had her lawyer sent them the 17 point list (in November 2023) and explicitly requested a meeting before the shoot restarted to address these concerns, and then they had the January 4th meeting. And everyone agree things were better on set in the second half of filming. All of that is Blake vocalizing concerns and requesting real commitments for things to improve, until ultimately she got what she and others considered a safe and respectful set. Those are not the actions of someone playing the victim or trying to trump up fake charges. She was trying to solve the problem, and thought she had, until she saw those texts from Jen Abel's phone and learned what Wayfarer had been up to since July 2024.[/quote]

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