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Anonymous wrote:At some point, I have to get to work, but this document dump is insane. There’s a text exchange with Colleen and one of her friends named Taryn. From June 2024. Well before any retaliation or smear campaign mind you.

Colleen is trashing Justin’s engagement video. Keep in mind the engagement video is well over a decade old as he’s been with his wife for many years and they have two children who are tweens at this point.

She and her friend are just s&@t talking the video and making fun of it. Then Colleen says, “we’ll use it as inspiration for when Blake and I do it starts with us”

Proof positive that in June 2024 the plan was to take the rights from the sequel from Justin and have Blake and Colleen do it.

It seems a lot of the hating on Justin had nothing to do with the actual movie set and just his posts on Instagram and his personality. Which is fine we don’t all have to like each other. But again these are adults just bullying and picking apart dumb things that have nothing to do with their job.

I see that another way.

In June 2024, Colleen had quite a bit of experience with Justin professionally. She had been working with him in some capacity for two years. It seems to me that she withheld judgment on his personality for a loooooong time, but that after Justin and Jamey took her to that dinner where they trashed Blake to her (at this point Colleen had only met Blake one time, very briefly, and had no real opinion of her one way or the other), she'd finally just had it with his behavior.

A huge problem for Justin here is that he held himself out to all these women as an ally and male feminist -- Christy Hall, Colleen Hoover, Blake, Jenny Slate, Liz Plank, Alex Saks, Isabele Ferrer. And each of them discovered in their interactions with him that he is not that. He's a misogynist. He talks over women, he yells at women, he can't take criticism from women. He wants the benefit of the doubt at all times, that he's a "good guy" but when some of these women would tell him "look, I don't like this behavior" his response was to become vindictive, to pout, and to play the victim. He does it over and over.

A lot of this was that he was just bad at this job. He gave himself this huge role -- star/director/producer. It would be a lot for even a very experienced director (which he was not), or someone who had played a lead role in a lot of major films (which he had not), or someone with a ton of producing credits (which he did not have). And he failed at it. And when he failed, he blamed all the women around him for his OWN failure, and those women correctly viewed that as him being misogynist ahole.

I say all this still not really sure that Blake can prove SH or retaliation. I don't know. There's some evidence but a lot of it is mitigated. She truly might not have a case here, and yes a ton of embarrassing stuff has come out about her that makes me not very sympathetic to her and very likely might have ended her career.

But is Justin Baldoni a victim? OMG NO. I am not even a little surprised this man wound up getting sued, and I actually think if it had not happened don this movie, it would have happened on a subsequent project. You cannot walk around claiming to be a male feminist while talking to and treating women this way. He should be absolutely humiliated for this and I'm glad that all this information about him has come out and destroyed his stupid "Man Enough" empire, which we can now see was total BS. He absolutely was trying to use the mantle of feminism and allyship to cover up for being a shitty dude who, oh by the way, is not even particularly skilled or talented. No sympathy for this man. None. These dudes are awful and I am sincerely glad I've never had the displeasure of working for or with them. No thank you.

I can't take anyone who defends Justin and his behavior seriously, not after reading all this evidence and these depositions. He's awful.

Anonymous wrote:Blake’s case is a train wreck. Her supposed corroboration from other women is all nonsense. Isabella is mad JB told her to lick the cookie dough in the kitchen scene, which is in the book. Jenny is mad b/c they paid for her apt security deposit. The canceled line from Brandon was a lie. Where’s the hostile work environment?

Ange Giannetti said she saw Jamie’s video and it was fine, clearly just a misunderstanding on Blake’s part. Said Blake complained a lot about a lot of things, including Justin being too sensitive, but nothing that constituted harassment.

Meanwhile Blake is calling Justin a clown and a doofus before they ever step foot on set. And in her PGA letter she makes it clear she wanted to be the producer from the start but wasn’t given the opportunity. The pga letter imo lays out the motive for most of her behavior. She had to undermine Justin to get what she wanted, so she found an issue with every little thing he did. He could not win short of rolling over.

Anonymous wrote:At some point, I have to get to work, but this document dump is insane. There’s a text exchange with Colleen and one of her friends named Taryn. From June 2024. Well before any retaliation or smear campaign mind you.

Colleen is trashing Justin’s engagement video. Keep in mind the engagement video is well over a decade old as he’s been with his wife for many years and they have two children who are tweens at this point.

She and her friend are just s&@t talking the video and making fun of it. Then Colleen says, “we’ll use it as inspiration for when Blake and I do it starts with us”

Proof positive that in June 2024 the plan was to take the rights from the sequel from Justin and have Blake and Colleen do it.

It seems a lot of the hating on Justin had nothing to do with the actual movie set and just his posts on Instagram and his personality. Which is fine we don’t all have to like each other. But again these are adults just bullying and picking apart dumb things that have nothing to do with their job.

Slate, who plays Lively’s best friend in the film, testified that Baldoni called Lively “hot” and “sexy.” Slate said that she flagged the inappropriate comments, which Baldoni did not appreciate. On another occasion, Baldoni told Slate that she looked “sexy” in what she was wearing.

“I assumed there was an understanding of — ‘We’re not doing this anymore,'” Slate testified. “It’s not appropriate anymore. It never was appropriate, but it’s not appropriate in a workplace.”

Slate also sent text messages stating that Baldoni was a “narcissist” and a “fraud” for cultivating a feminist persona.

“Justin is truly a false ally and I’m unwilling to do anything that promotes the image that he’s crafting as a ‘male feminist’ … like … honestly i have no words to describe what a fraud he is,” she wrote. “I honestly have never ever encountered anything like this dude. He’s the biggest clown and the most intense narcissist.”

Ferrer, who played the 16-year-old version of Lively’s character, testified that Baldoni made an inappropriate remark while directing the scene in which her character loses her virginity.

“I’m not supposed to say this, but that was hot,” Baldoni said, according to her testimony.

Ferrer testified that the remark was out of place.

“It didn’t feel appropriate in a work environment, and given that it was not necessarily like a note of any kind to do with my acting,” she said. “It felt out of place and strange to hear about a scene, especially a scene that is meant to be a PG scene about two young teenagers having a very like innocent experience intimately.”

In her own testimony, Lively said she was concerned that Baldoni had added several “gratuitous” sexual scenes to the film.

Anonymous wrote:Also looks like Blake’s cut tested much lower on every element that they were scoring than Justin’s. Amazing that she got it released. She had ultimate power on the film.

Her email to Ben affleck is hilarious and cringe. Ryan and her love to just blatantly and shamelessly kiss a—.

Meanwhile Ryan writes that embarrassing and effusive text to justin in preproduction all while stabbing him in the back and trying to get him fired from the movie.

Anonymous wrote:Blake's driver testified that Baldoni talked about being forced and forcing himself onto women in the car. When they arrived at the production office, he let everyone out except Blake and insisted they run background check or something on this guy, and was shocked to learn this was the producer.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.1230.28.pdf
(pgs 7-9)