Blake Lively, RR & It Ends With Us drama

[notallbloom]

Have NC because I freely admit that I have (limited) skin in this game, I am not entirely neutral.

This tells the story of the rift better than I could video here more about JB here JB info

Have worked for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds in the UK, they are ...erm not my favourite slebs to work with. BL can be nasty to staff, her I'm all for women thing would be great, if she wasn't awful to them in reality. RR sometimes apologetically, always sides with BL, as his wife.
However, she does have 4 young DCs, so has spent much of the last decade pregnant, or post partum, which is enough to make anyone tired and therefore appear 'difficult'.

As I am senior in my role, stars have to treat me with some decency. Even so, the mask slips, I do everything I can to make their time in the UK as comfortable as possible, whilst placating the staff they upset, I will not work with them if I can avoid it.

Justin Baldoni directed It Ends With Us, I do not know JB.

Anti JB side (note there isn't much information about what JB has done wrong):
• He was difficult on set.
• He was acting and directing, diluting his ability to do both.
• He has hired a the firm of PR crisis manager who helped to improve Johnny Depp's image during the Amber Heard trial.
• JB has a pro 'good' men podcast called Man Enough, largely it is positive. Unfortunately he had Drake Bell on the podcast and did not question his accountability for previous SA.

Anti BL side:
• BL is trying to give the film a Barbie moment, encouraging audiences, for a film about DV, to wear florals.
• BL has objected to two things; she says JB fat-shamed her on set and, in one scene kissed her for too long (no suggestion that the kiss itself was inappropriate e.g. tongue).
• BL & RR made a cut of the film, which emphasises the rom-com of the story, rather than the DV.
• BL has corralled the author, Colleen Hoover and the cast to 'unfollow' JB on social media.
• RR rewrote a scene for the film without being asked by the director in doing so, RR broke the writer's strike.
• The cast have not been doing any press or standing on the red carpet at the premieres with JB.
• BL is using the film promo to also promote her new hair brand.

It may be that JB was a massive a-hole, or it may be that BL was a 'mean girl' and used her considerable power to influence the rest of the cast to be unpleasant to JB.
The truth could lie somewhere in the middle.

This is everything I know, I did not work on the film, or the promotion of it, so far.
I am able to agree that I have direct experience of seeing what BL and RR are like IRL, whereas I do not have the same experience of JB.
I'm prepared to accept that JB is the villain here.
I do not have any further information about this situation, if any comes my way I will, without breaking my contractual obligations, write about it here.

@Megifer I am not a surgeon, a politician, or an inventor of clean energy supplies.
Nowhere have I claimed that my job is significant, that you do says far more about you than it does about me.

IRL, when meeting new parents, I am deliberately vague about my career, precisely because it is not nearly as significant as people believe.

But did BL know that? It just goes to show you shouldn't be commenting on other people's pregnancies because you never know what's going on, even if the person is pregnant

Probably more interesting than a lot of people's jobs though!

But did BL know that? It just goes to show you shouldn't be commenting on other people's pregnancies because you never know what's going on, even if the person is pregnant

What on earth is wrong with congratulating someone on their pregnancy after it’s been announced? There’s no need to fat shame!

Exactly. I love a bit if showbiz gossip. So what?
@notallbloom on the TS nite, what's the real deal with her boyfriends? Are they all real? I can't believe her and Tom Hidfledton was anything ither than her obliging Tom's agent to try and get him more known in the US ( obviously it backfired. I understand him doing it but not TS if it was fake. And how many relationships are fake)

This is quite common knowledge it’s been going around reddit for a few days

But Blake had already confirmed her pregnancy, hadn't she?

So congratulating her on it was just a nice gesture on the interviewer's part. It's not like she was speculating out loud.

Oh you're after useful perspectives? Sometimes it's helpful to say that in your OP rather than just a post a mind dump of stuff you've found out through work. HTH.

I agree. She was ~7 months pregnant in that interview, and the pregnancy was public. Saying "congrats on the pregnancy" is a very normal thing to do. And even if BL considered it a bit too familiar or whatever, it didn't warrant a rude response.
It's not like she was in the early stages, and the press was speculating, and the journalist was being presumptuous and trying to check her reaction by mentioning a pregnancy.

@putyourhandsintheairok why are you so angry?

Do you know what? I don't give a shiny shit.

Actors get paid to make movies. It's their job. The only thing I require of them is to do decent job of it, so I don't waste my money. They don't all have to be Oscar material, just competent and watchable. If the movie looks good (and the lead actors involved don't irritate me for some reason) then I'll watch it. If the movie doesn't interest me, then I won't watch it.

I literally could not give a stuff how actors come across in interviews and whether or not they are 'mean' or 'fake' or 'dull' or anything else. I couldn't give a stuff about whether or not they are nice to work with, we all have annoying colleagues occasionally. I couldn't care less about anything they have to say, about anything, ever. Not their politics, not what they think about Gaza or Trump, or Trans, most definitely not whatever spats they are currently having with other actors. I don't care. I'm only amazed that so many people do seem to care so much. It's bizarre.

She had already confirmed her pregnancy

@VictorianScreenTime your final paragraph is, IMO close to the truth.
In a way though I think that, when you have achieved such a huge level of fame, you have to be the person people expect.

My apologies that I am not being more specific about TS, as I say, ignore the big PR pieces, look at what you really see and scratch the surface.
It is my belief that the real, kind TS is still with us. She is so famous, there are so very many people who want a piece of her, she has to have boundaries.

I meant posting the entirety of the post immediately made me think this was part of the crisis management. Daily Mail often picks up threads from Mumsnet.

I am not in the slightest bit angry. Not remotely. Baffled by the OP's OP, because it's odd. Not sure how you've equated that with anger.

It is my belief that the real, kind TS is still with us. She is so famous, there are so very many people who want a piece of her, she has to have boundaries

I agree with that

This is an interesting take, a lot of neurodivergent people can spot it in others clear as day. I can't say I've seen much of TS but will look out for it ic I fo ever watch her. Similarly, I recently found out that Brad Pitt has face blindness and that's probably why a lot of people find him rude, he just doesnt always recognise people.

@Birdsrule I agree that she will definitely work again, of course she will.

You are correct, we all have our off days.

I'm unsure how much of JB's new PR, my understanding is that he only employed them recently, is putting out negative stuff about BL. It may be that his PR team are focused on portraying him positively and the media are doing the rest wrt BL.

@putyourhandsintheairok perhaps anger was the wrong word then. But it’s pretty odd to engage in a thread that continues to baffle you. None of these threads are obligatory 😆

@LuluBlakey1 I am uninterested in the film or in Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. I don't care at all about any of it.

So why did you post the entire OP to tell us all you don't care?

(Which I would think most of us don't care about)

Why are you wasting time on me, then? I was talking to the op, not you.

@notallbloom totally unrelated to this thread (I'm still on the fence, although the older interviews aren't great at all) but would you consider doing an AMA?

If you aren't bound by confidentiality then I'm sure lots of posters would be interested in the "best" and "worst" people you've worked with

#nosey

OP, I agree.

I've also heard RR can be a bit of a prick to her.

Have you ever worked with Brad Pitt or Angelina?

I'm curious because I have and I know at one point he was drunk and angry all the time, and she was just over it. She was very warm though. Genuinely warm.

They have been reported upon since the days of silent movies.

It won't change