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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s been caught in a million lies.

He never said you smell soooo good, he didnt improvise one kissing scene yet she improvised 2 and he was clearly caught off guard. She was not shown porn on set.

She said in her deposition that things started out amicably, and that it was only overtime that she realized how small things were making her uncomfortable. Yet we saw from the texts to Taylor that even before the movie started, she was talking horribly about Justin, scheming against him and calling him a doofus and a clown. She didn’t slowly start to become uncomfortable with him. She was out to get him from the start.

She told Matt Damon and his wife that he had complained about low bone density and they mocked him for that. That’s just mocking menopausal women but actually he never claimed that. He had a long standing back injury that’s been verified.

She went all over town saying that he was in a cult. He is not in fact in a cult. [/quote]

So tiresome.

- She quoted his "you smell good line" fairly accurately from her own memory and corrected her complaint when a video was produced showing the exact phrasing. Do you remember everything someone said to you 18 months ago with perfect accuracy? Not a lie.

- He did improvise kissing, it's just she did as well. We literally see him improvising nuzzling/kissing in the dancing scene. She clearly thought her improvised kissing was more professional and didn't cross a line. Different interpretation but not a lie.

- She never alleged she was shown porn on set. She alleged she was shown a video of a naked woman with legs played with no warning and thought it was porn. Which is what happened. She also says porn, including Justin's porn addiction, were discussed on set, which he has admitted. Not a lie.

- You can be amicable while disliking a person privately. There is no allegation that Lively was unkind or rude to Justin before shooting or when it started. The fact that she mentioned not really liking him to a close friend at the time actually demonstrates that she was capable of setting those feelings aside, because she continued to work amicably with him despite her misgivings. Have you never made a negative comment about a boss it colleague to a friend and then gone to work and gotten along fine? I've done this plenty of times. Not a lie.

- He absolutely claimed that the reason he needed to know her weight is that he had low bone density leading to his back issues. Not a lie (just an incredibly stupid thing Justin once said). Also I'm menopausal and this doesn't offend me in the least, but Justin asking her trainer for her weight does offend me.

- I think he is in a cult. I'm not talking about his religion, but Wayfarer. Multiple people on that set referenced the cult-like vibes around how they conducted business, not just Blake. I happen to agree. Anyway, that's an opinion, not a lie.[/quote]

These are not good faith arguments. You are actually doing exactly what Blake does, taking things that seem like facts and twisting them way out of context.  Saying that she didn’t remember about the you smell sooo good comment 18 months later doesn’t make sense. We as women know what that would feel like - very sleazy. We also know that if he simply said in a very different way that he was talking about her body makeup, it would be different.

If Blake improvised kissing several times and he did, then she was implicitly implying that these kinds of improvised scenes were. Just like the sex jokes Jenny Slate made, it was OK for them to do it, but then they turned it on Justin when he went along with it.

You should reread the New York Times article. Because she absolutely did allege that she had been shown porn on set. It was part of the “no more” list. No more showing Miss lively porn on set. So yes, the public believed she had been shown that and then later we found out it was a birth video, which, by the way, she wants sealed at this point because she knows what it’s going to look like if people see it.

The bone density was not the main reason that he couldn’t lift her. He had had back surgery and a long-standing back injury the trainer. Don was designing the whole program around his back injury. It wasn’t a secret. Maybe an injury causes bone loss, but they were trying to insult him by making him look like an old woman. He actually just had a back injury and was concerned about lifting her. It was sexist and offensive of Reynolds to say that.

You can say his religion a cult - it is just actually not. It is rude to go around accusing people of different faiths of being in a cult and you know this. Lively does too, and that’s why she had asked the court to seal any talk about his religion.  The judge ruled against that and that’s how we know they were constantly walking around disparaging his religious beliefs.

Like I said, straight out of the lively playbook, but no one is buying it anymore. We all look at what lively said and realize this could be us or our husband or sons. Things that they’ve done twisted out of context and because of a giant Karen, they lose their job. This is why the public has turned, and this is why I’m so glad Justin decided to fight back and actually tell his side of the story instead of completely crumbling, like Reynolds and lively expected he would. [/quote]

I'm not "twisting" facts out of context. I am interpreting the facts differently than you are. This is why you keep accusing her of lying when she just had a different take on these situation than you (or Justin) did. That doesn't make her take a lie, it means different people can see situations differently.

I watched the video in which the "you smell good" comment happened. I think Blake looks visibly uncomfortable in most of that video, she is pulling away from him and trying to create physical distance between their faces, and suggesting a different way to do the scene in order to reinforce that space. I read the script pages for the scene -- it didn't indicate any nuzzling or him kissing her neck or shoulders, so this behavior was improvised. And when he says "you smell good," it did come off as sleazy to me. I read that interaction as the two of them having a bit of a power struggle and him using their characters to blur the lines and exert control over her. It made me uncomfortable and I believe that Blake felt that his behavior in that scene crossed a line because it was just b-roll to be used in montage. Had he wanted to get a few shots of them being more affectionate, as the director he could have said "okay we have enough of the two of them dancing and talking, but I'd like a few of the characters getting closer like they are about to kiss, to show their chemistry. Blake, you comfortable with that? Should we block through it a bit?" That is what I think a professional director with strong boundaries would do in that situation.

I think the improvising Justin does in that scene is functionally different from the "improvising" we've seen of Blake in other scenes where she added kissing or touching. In those scenes, she is either just adding an extra kiss to one that is already there (kissing a few times instead of once) or she is talking to him in a professional way to discuss the blocking of intimacy (as in the scene where she is describing how she'd like him to pull her into him and demonstrates -- they are having a conversation explicitly about the intimacy in the scene, it is very clear that she is not pulling him in because she personally wants to be close to him, but to demonstrate how that movement would look on camera). What Justin does in the dance scene feels different to me.

A agree that Slate's comments about sex on set were inappropriate and I think a well run set would actually have checked her on that. I also think a lot of Ryan Reynold's comments in texts/emails to Justin are gross and unprofessional. I do not think Blake crosses those lines though. But the stuff Justin and Jamey said on set or in meetings or private moments with Blake are also unprofessional and inappropriate to me. It sounds like the entire production had these issues, and I do hold Justin and Jamey more responsible for that because they were the director and co-producers.

I haven't read the New York Times article in ages, but it doesn't matter because it's not a court filing. The point is that in her court filing, Blake makes it clear that she does not think Jamey showed her porn, nor does she allege that anyone else showed her porn on set. The complaint makes it clear that she objected to being shown a video featuring a nude woman without her consent (but with the hindsight understanding that it wasn't pornography). It's also clear from her complaint that a major issue with pornography on the set was that Justin on multiple occasions discussed his porn addiction, and also made inappropriate comments about Blake not having watched porn before, including to other members of the cast and crew. If the NYT article blurs these issues or conveys otherwise, that's on the NYT. It is common for media outlets to fail to capture the nuance of court filings, this is a perpetual issue I have with how legal cases are covered in mainstream media. But I don't hold litigants responsible for the poor coverage of their cases. There have been lots of inaccurate things written about Justin's case by the media as well, I don't blame Justin for their shoddy journalism.

Regarding the bone density thing, I read the deposition of the trainer and found it persuasive. One thing the trainer said that stuck with me is that the question about Lively's weight was non-sensical because Justin was obviously doing exercises that required him to lift more than Lively weighed already. So the idea that Justin asked due to his back didn't make sense in that context. The trainer said that if Justin had framed the question that way (that he was worried about the lift) instead of asking directly about Lively's weight, it wouldn't have been an issue. Justin was asking for very sensitive info about the trainer's client. It's completely inappropriate.

I also have a lot of skepticism about Justin's back because of other behavior related to his back. He has a history of either exaggerating issues with his back or blaming back issues on things that are not the cause. For instance, he blamed Colleen Hoover for his back issues in the summer of 2024 to try and make her feel guilty. But his own team even made fun of him for this because they all knew that the real reason he was having problems is that he'd gone to Mexico and gotten stem cell treatment from some hack doctor who caused an infection. He'd done it because the doctor gave him free treatment in exchange for promoting the doc on Justin's social media, and then later Justin deleted the promotional posts. Sorry if I'm not deeply offended on behalf of this person when other people made fun of him privately for having "low bone density." Justin is one of those people who uses illness or injury for attention and you are never even sure if it's real because they exaggerate and lie about it.

No one is calling Wayfarer a cult because of their religious beliefs. They are calling it a cult because of cult-like behavior like: forcing a lot of physical contact that not everyone feels comfortable with in professional settings, making a point of discussing religious beliefs in professional settings, hiring incompetent people to do jobs simply because they belong to your church, etc. Rainn Wilson is a member of the same faith, and I've never heard of him doing any of that stuff on the set of the Office, for instance. Perhaps because that was a diverse workplace and it would not have been appropriate to impose his views or religious norms on his coworkers in that way. That Wayfarer thought this was appropriate is, IMO, cult-like.

But I know you will consider all of this just me "twisting" things. I'm not twisting anyone. This is my perspective and opinion. It's every bit as valid as yours. And I know Justin fans hate to think about this, but it's just as likely that people on the jury will wind up thinking the way I do as that they will think the way you do. I would not underestimate the ability of people to take in someone like Justin, or hear about the behavior of Justin and Jamey and the others, and recognize it for what I think it is: culty, weird, and yes, retaliatory.[/quote]

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