Blake lively

Only that he assaulted his (ex) wife on a plane, hit his son for trying to intervene (all this is fact, btw, FBI investigated) and yet his reputation is intact. Blake Lively gave a couple of awkward interviews and the internet hates her. Calls her a “mean girl”, doesn’t believe her when she says she was treated badly by a male costar.

My point is - they’re both celebrities. One is still working and absolutely fine. The other is not. One is a man. The other is not.

The man (Brad Pitt) has a great PR team in this case as well!

What's Brad Pitt got to do with it?

I’d be curious how many people hate Brad Pitt. More than hate Blake Lively? I doubt it.

I’m not saying a thing about her character - I don’t know her. I’m just saying that I believe the things she claims about Justin Baldoni are true. And that the hate she’s getting is outsized because she’s a beautiful and privileged woman.

we hate women so quickly and easily

Some women are awful people though, would be disingenuous to suggest otherwise. She's actually been given a fair bit of grace because she's the woman in this scenario tbh. Plenty of examples of her being a horrible person in interviews and her own words- caveat with not suggesting this means I think she deserves to be harassed if it happened.

You do realise that just another opinion, right? You’re acting like it’s fact also - it doesn’t change my mind. You’re being manipulated and what stinks is, we hate women so quickly and easily.

Let's have a "conversation " , but only if you agree with me, otherwise go away?

How very.. Justin of you.

I would believe this if it weren't for the fact she was shilling her hair care line and her husbands alcohol brand during the promo. This is usually frowned upon in film promo, are you saying they told her to do this also?

Reality is she can be insufferable and still have experienced sexual harassment, she still doesn't deserve it no matter how problematic she is (thought she's awful since she made jokes about her co-star in GG having been born in prison which is spiteful and nothing has ever seemed to contradict this rep). That said, this is messy AF and who knows what went on.

Ok Justin, we see you

Careful you don't pull a muscle with those (mental) gymnastics.

I saw the video and am not sure what to think. I am leaning more to believing she wanted an affair and he wasn't into it so she went scorched earth on his reputation.
She has a rep for that

It probably doesn't help with the blinds about her husband, H and their mates ALLEGEDLY

and during movie scenes don't actors often go off piste and add things or directors alter things when looking through a lens?

Even if that was scene was exactly as scripted surely all actors & actresses find having to pretend to be in love with a stranger pretty uncomfortable? It's weird in general

I can see how she is uncomfortable in that scene, however, by only releasing into the public domain select parts of text conversations so we don't get the context (see my previous post), asking for his legal team to be gagged to prevent them releasing further evidence thus leaving her free reign to release as and when she pleases, is manipulative behaviour and doesn't do her any favours. It is exactly what AH did which affected her credibility and her case so I can easily see why people (inc myself) are making comparisons.

I also don't feel that I have to support any female just because we share the same reproductive organs. That's a slippery slope.

FWIW I'm in the 'older' (I prefer more mature 😊) woman category and worked in offices in and around the late 80's/90s so there isn't much I haven't seen in terms of male egos and unsavoury behaviours.
I'm not for bending either.

I used to really like Paul Bettany. I won't ever forget.

This smearing of BL, posters must think we're thick as mince. PR companies need to understand that older women have seen all this before hundreds of times. We don't bend as easily.

The fact Lively has applied for Baldoni's legal team to have a gag order is suspicious. It's the only way they can fight back right now and just because people aren't fully on her side, it doesn't mean she'll lose in court.

I think she's a narcissistic piece of shit human being but I don't doubt she felt sexually harassed on the set either. Both things can be true but the way this has been handled means even if she wins in court, everyone knows how she stole his film.

I saw the video of the dance scene. What's clear is she is absolutely repulsed by him. Like deeply ick beyond compare. Which seems a bit weird for an actor who must have had to do multiple love scenes with people she may not have fancied.
It felt like she did not want him near her at all.

I did feel the comments about his nose were mean. She's well known for having several rhinoplasties so maybe she's got a problem with normal looking noses. Her husband has the nose of a nine year old girl? Haha. Ok so now I'm being too mean about noses myself!

I honestly have never liked her. But he clearly did make her feel uncomfortable judging by their interactions in the scene.

This is exactly what I thought when I watched it. Multiple times she is heard trying to politely discourage him from what he is doing. She looks extremely awkward and unhappy about his behaviour which was clearly not scripted.

I wouldn't underestimate the US court system. And her multiple lies were all open for the public to see. A disgusting human being. And Depp is an old stoner so I'm not a fan of his but he wasn't manipulative as she was.

Good point re Chris Brown etc,
Jack Nicholson doesn't seem to have been vilified after assaulting a woman to the point of permanent brain damage and a ruptured breast implant. I don't recall his reputation being in tatters and his career over.

The video neither proves or disproves anything.
I find it hard to believe she'd put herself through this case and have her name dragged further through the mud if there was no truth to her allegations. She has four children to think about and yes she's rich and famous but the stress must still be impacting her and her homelife with her family.
I maybe wrong and maybe people would put themselves through it, that's the thing, none of us know these people or the truth, just what we're being fed.

On the walking in while she was breastfeeding, the text his legal team released revealed Blake telling Justin that as she was ‘pumping’ did he want to come over to her trailer, he said OK he would come over after he had finished eating with the crew. She invited him. 🤷‍♀️

Did they also tell her to try and flog her booze and hair line at the same time as the film?? I suppose they also told her to name a cocktail after ryle as well, even though alcohol increases Domestic violence.

What career? He had a secondary part in a mildly successfully (but brilliant I have to say) telenovela. He barely had a career to ruin u like Blake

No to mention EVERY cast member is siding with her. And the author.