#blake lively

[mrgaretcarter]

Emily calling Stephanie "baby" Another Simple Favor (2025)

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[masteroftheblankstare]

Maybe I’m just stupid, but do people actually fucking believe Justin Baldoni? The level of extreme he’s going to only backs up Blake Lively’s case. He is harassing her. He is trying to ruin her life. I do not understand how this is good for him because I will never watch something he’s in again after this. And it’s not because of anything Lively said or did it’s because of him and his arrogance. She was willing to let it go, but he could not handle it. Every day this case goes on I’m more disgusted.

[nothing0fnothing]

Amber Heard. Blake Lively. Cassie Ventura.

They're all the same picture. They're all proof that you can be the picture of a perfect victim and still they'll say that your abuser is innocent. That you somehow participated in your own victimisation, absolving the person who victimised you of their crimes.

It is misogyny. It is victim blaming. It is exactly how abusers keep getting away with it.

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[theholidayslingerlikebadperfume]

how many times are yall going to fall for the "pretty actress is secretly AN EVIL BITCH who is SO DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH" routine only for it to come out the studio was pushing that narrative to get ahead of SA allegations before you realize you're the problem?

[blakelivelyys]

It Ends With Us Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater in New York City - August 6, 2024

[haleyatwell]

ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR (2025) dir. Paul Feig

[alltoowsll]

why would you even think Taylor would ask Justin Baldoni to use his vocals in the opening of Gorgeous T.V?????! Do this people even stan Taylor ?

[agent13ronnie]

”She ruined his career” is something that is often said when a victim comes out about an abuser. Have you noticed how untrue this statement usually is? Abusers like Brad Pitt, Jeremy Renner, Chris Brown, and Johnny Depp still have careers. Meanwhile female victims often have smear campaigns against them. Female victims like Megan Thee Stallion, Blake Lively, and Amber Heard get memed about and treated like jokes.

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[westandwithblakelively]

Who else remembers this? 😂 😂 😂

This was posted by the trainer who Baldoni asked how much Blake weighed.

[mrgaretcarter]

Another Simple Favor (2025) Dir. Paul Feig

[maaarine]

'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine (Megan Twohey and Mike McIntire and Julie Tate, The New York Times, Dec 21 2024)

"Last summer, as the release of “It Ends With Us” approached, Justin Baldoni, the director and a star of the film, and Jamey Heath, the lead producer, hired a crisis public relations expert.

During shooting, Blake Lively, the co-star, had complained that the men had repeatedly violated physical boundaries and made sexual and other inappropriate comments to her.

Their studio, Wayfarer, agreed to provide a full-time intimacy coordinator, bring in an outside producer and put other safeguards on set.

In a side letter to Ms. Lively’s contract, signed by Mr. Heath, the studio also agreed not to retaliate against the actress.

But by August, the two men, who had positioned themselves as feminist allies in the #MeToo era, expressed fears that her allegations would become public and taint them, according to a legal complaint that she filed Friday.

It claims that their P.R. effort had an explicit goal: to harm Ms. Lively’s reputation instead.

Her filing includes excerpts from thousands of pages of text messages and emails that she obtained through a subpoena.

These and other documents were reviewed by The New York Times. (…)

Mr. Baldoni was best known for the CW satirical romantic dramedy “Jane the Virgin.”

Wayfarer provided the resources for bigger ambitions. It was bankrolled by the billionaire Steve Sarowitz, who is co-chair of the studio with Mr. Baldoni.

They and Mr. Heath, the chief executive, are all deeply involved with the Baha’i religious organization, which promotes unity, peace and gender equality.

Mr. Baldoni has presented himself as an ally to women, writing books, co-hosting a podcast with Mr. Heath and giving talks on toxic masculinity. (…)

She claimed Mr. Baldoni had improvised unwanted kissing and discussed his sex life, including encounters in which he said he may not have received consent.

Mr. Heath had shown her a video of his wife naked, she said, and he had watched Ms. Lively in her trailer when she was topless and having body makeup removed, despite her asking him to look away.

She said that both men repeatedly entered her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding. (…)

As the film release neared, Ms. Lively and other cast members informed Sony and Wayfarer that they would not do any appearances alongside Mr. Baldoni.

So did Ms. Hoover, the author, who had her own dissatisfactions with him and had become more upset after he told her about Ms. Lively’s allegations, according to text messages from Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath.

By the first week of August, Wayfarer and Mr. Baldoni had retained Ms. Nathan, who had worked with high-profile clients including Mr. Depp, whose ex-wife, Amber Heard, accused him of physical abuse. (…)

Three days later, Mr. Baldoni texted Ms. Abel, flagging a social media thread that accused another celebrity of bullying behavior and had generated 19 million views. “This is what we would need,” he wrote.

Ms. Nathan soon floated proposals to hire contractors to dominate social media through “full social account take downs,” by starting “threads of theories” and generally working to “change narrative.”

“All of this will be most importantly untraceable,” she wrote. (…)

When Ms. Abel wrote to her Aug. 4 that “I’m having reckless thoughts of wanting to plant pieces this week of how horrible Blake is to work with. Just to get ahead of it,” Ms. Nathan replied that she had spoken off the record to an editor at The Daily Mail.

“She’s ready when we are,” Ms. Nathan wrote.

A flurry of articles followed the Hollywood Reporter piece. Many made it seem as if the only rift was over creative control.

Some journalists had gotten wind of complaints about Mr. Baldoni’s behavior, but none of the most serious ones were published.

“He doesn’t realise how lucky he is right now,” Ms. Nathan texted Ms. Abel. (…)

It is unclear exactly how Mr. Wallace operated.

There are references in emails to “social manipulation” and “proactive fan posting,” and text messages cite efforts to “boost” and “amplify” online content that was favorable to Mr. Baldoni or critical of Ms. Lively.

“We are crushing it on Reddit,” Mr. Wallace told Ms. Nathan, according to a text she sent Ms. Abel on Aug. 9.

The next day, one of Ms. Nathan’s employees texted, “We’ve started to see shift on social, due largely to Jed and his team’s efforts to shift the narrative.”

Ms. Nathan wrote to Ms. Abel: “And socials are really really ramping up. In his favour, she must be furious. It’s actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women.” (…)

On Aug. 16, Ms. Nathan shared the Daily Mail article headlined “Is Blake Lively set to be CANCELLED?” with references to ‘hard to watch’ videos and a ‘tone deaf’ promotional Q. and A.

“Wow. You really outdid yourself with this piece,” Ms. Abel responded.

“That’s why you hired me right?” Ms. Nathan replied. “I’m the best.”"