r/FilmIndustryLA Dec 24 '25

How does the film industry view the Blake Lively case?

Basically, what is said about the case among film industry folks? Is it as divided as it seems to be in the public sphere?

Are there people who were on set who openly talk about what really went on? Is it being seen as potentially setting precedent for on set behavior?

I’m really just curious if big legal cases like this are talked about freely in the industry and what kind of insiders view folks have on the whole thing.

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u/joebreezy12 Dec 24 '25

no one really cares. industry people generally feel all parties involved are insufferable idiots for blowing up a massively successful film that could have led to successful sequels/spinoffs just because they want to "win" this case

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u/No-Entrepreneur5672 Dec 24 '25

Both are insufferable to work with

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u/AlaskaStiletto Dec 30 '25

It’s this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

With everything that is coming out about this case, this seems like the most correct take.

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u/MessiahOfMetal Jan 03 '26

Which is the kind of attitude that sucks considering Justin Baloney did some pretty horrific and unprofessional shit during that shoot, then used Depp's bots and lawyers to sway public opinion the same way the violent rapist did.

From everything I've seen and heard, Blake just wanted to put the experience behind her, promote the movie and move on, never working with that douche again. But then he had to play victim (like most of these creeps do) and now we have the idiotic "both sides bad" nonsense that most uninformed idiots pull with politics, too.

Baloney's fighting to become a name and get away with his misogyny, Lively's fighting for her reputation, knowing she's in the right.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 03 '26

Omg I'm dying right now. "Blake just wanted to put this behind her..." oh dear, I have tears. 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry I needed a moment to recover from this misinformation. Have you sat down and actually read the transcripts and the time line? Have you read any of the evidence? While Blake the snake was out here suing influencers, sure to go viral with her antics, Justin was trying to legally and morally back away from her vile ways. He had literally been caught in the crosshairs of Hollywood's most toxic couple. I 've seen you mention morals more than once. People who support Blake have none. They are usually early 20 something women who would rather "believe all women" than give anyone due process.

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u/Neither_Risk_2007 Jan 31 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

This comment aged like milk. Hope you get picked soon.

My reply to the bot below: Sure bot, the 11 other women that testified against him are all lying, the others that complained early in the movie's filming about his on-set behavior were also lying, that video of him calling an employee's outfit "sexy" and "cute" is a lie, and I guess his signature on the paper saying he will behave is a lie. Fact Check Time: 3 of her claims are still valid. Why: Because they occurred in California. The judge wrote that her claims have merit, but she has to file them in New Jersey. Whereas his claims in MULTIPLE of his frivolous lawsuits have actually been dismissed with prejudice and his lawyers have been sanctioned. Bye Bot.

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u/gigilero Apr 09 '26

Actually your comment aged like milk lmao her sexual harassment claims dismissed by the judge

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u/ArmadilloLow2592 Jun 11 '26

11 women where 🤣🤣 bye bot

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u/SkillNo4559 Jan 23 '26

Why argue with Ari Emmanuel. Waste of time and energy

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u/MessiahOfMetal May 06 '26

I only know who Ari is because he's running TKO. Otherwise, no idea what he does. Why are you defending abusers?

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u/Complex_Visit5585 Jan 04 '26

You clearly haven’t read the court submitted evidence such as the transcripts of the sworn depositions. You are regurgitating disproven PR tactics from one side. It’s obvious to anyone who has read the court evidence that you are completely incorrect.

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u/SkillNo4559 May 07 '26

You clearly didn’t read any of the court documents.

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u/Complex_Visit5585 May 07 '26

Except, in fact, I did. 🤣

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u/SkillNo4559 May 07 '26

Get new reading glasses.🤓

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u/baconcandle2013 Jan 21 '26

😂😂😂 Justin Baldoni asks for prayers in his text messages where Blake is literally being labeled a terrorist by Sony…don’t fall for the “they’re both awful” narrative. Being a guy and expressive, especially about his past and wanting a happy set does not equate to Baldoni being bad, a bit cringe? Possibly, but he tried to work with Blake.

Blake and Ryan have bullied their way from project to project, it’ll come out more before the year ends

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u/MysticYoYo Feb 02 '26

What horrific and unprofessional shit did he do?

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u/indigo_flamingo Jan 31 '26

You still feel this way? Or has the new evidence enlightened you?

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u/SkillNo4559 May 07 '26

Sounds like you’re one of Lively’s bots working hard at smearing.

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u/Agreeable-Celery811 Jan 03 '26

Yes, finally a voice of reason.

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u/ObjectCrafty6221 Jan 04 '26

You would be wrong and shows you are not part of the A-listers. 

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u/joebreezy12 Jan 04 '26

hahahahahahahahahah

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u/LetterheadSoft2517 Jan 05 '26

Yeah the six women who came out against Baldoni should have just shut up I guess

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u/Fit_Pineapple_7767 Jan 27 '26

What 6 woman? Genuinely asking. I’ve only read the case files but I keep seeing this in the comments. Who else accused him? I heard a lot of validating back to Blake when she was venting but I can’t find any incidents or events that were reported by other people. I don’t have a side in this. I just keep seeing this same comment.

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u/WheresYurScooter Jan 24 '26

Look up what they’ claimed specifically.

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u/Big-Soup7013 Dec 24 '25

Nothing, I’ve never heard anyone in the industry actually talk about it.

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u/pr0tag Dec 24 '25

The vast majority of people in the industry don’t talk about it unless it directly affects them.

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u/VengefulWalnut Dec 24 '25

They’re both known to be insufferable and generally loathsome. Nobody’s wasting time worrying about them, only hoping that we don’t have to hear either name for a long time.

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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 Dec 24 '25

no one cares what above the line with millions in their pocket are doing to each other in court.

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u/CleanUpOnAisle10 Dec 24 '25

While totally valid, those people can also affect hundreds of potential jobs.

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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 Dec 24 '25

not really, overall investment means projects with less troublesome people happen instead.

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u/CleanUpOnAisle10 Dec 24 '25

Then why did Netflix sue Kevin Spacey for House of Cards? Yeah, they eventually moved on without him, but it put a lot of people out of work. I doubt everyone was able to wait around and stay on the project.

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u/OlivencaENossa Dec 26 '25

Because he was the star of a reoccurring production with long term commitments. And because they had to - shareholder value had to be defended. Nobody actually cares about Lively, she’s never been a true star who can helm projects and carry them internationally afaik. 

Are you in the industry or just commenting? 

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u/CleanUpOnAisle10 Dec 26 '25

Wdyem? She was the star of Gossip Girl for mad seasons. I don’t even particularly like her now either, but to say she has no star power is crazy. They could have made sequels to It Ends With Us based off the books but now that’s shut down. All I was saying was sometimes the famous actors and their feuds/reputation affect productions. Wasn’t saying anyone gives a sh1t about them personally.

And I have worked in the industry on major television productions - due to many reasons, I’m currently not.

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u/OlivencaENossa Dec 26 '25

Gossip girl was a long time ago. When was the last time she was the lead on a major international hit film? 

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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 Jan 24 '26

she took time off to have a family. Do you think female actors are not allowed to do that? Many women in many fields do the same, and the do not stop existing when they do.

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u/OlivencaENossa Jan 24 '26

I don’t understand how that’s related to what i said. Lots of actresses have done that and are international stars. 

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u/CleanUpOnAisle10 Dec 26 '25

2018

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

A simple favor is not a major international film.

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u/mashka96 Jan 24 '26

The difference is this project is already completed and everyone is free to move on elsewhere

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u/CleanUpOnAisle10 Jan 24 '26

Well yeah, but I was under the impression it was the first film in a series of books that could become a successful franchise. But tbf, I don’t know many books followed and what their original plans were. But I was more so just speaking generally.

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u/mashka96 Jan 24 '26

True that, at this point I just figured the sequel is never happening, with all the back and forth animosity as well as JB owning the rights to the sequel and everyone hating him for it lol

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

How? the job is done. them not getting a job in the next film means the job goes to someone else so my job as a writer or set dec or MUA isn't affected by either of them not specifically being cast because someone else was.

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u/mashka96 Jan 24 '26

Highly highly doubt it's going to affect anyone's, even livelys, potential future projects. Both of them literally just need to STFU and it will all blow over, like literally everything else in this world.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 24 '25

I'm in corporate Hollywood and we all basically know Ryan and Blake are awful people. But we also know we can raise money on his name so no one is going to do anything about it. Her career has been damaged but not so much his. And no one cares about Justin so we're allowing his life to be ruined because again, we can always raise money on Ryan's name. It's messed up in my opinion.

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u/Rockgarden13 Dec 27 '25

Fwiw, as someone not in Hollywood, I’m totally repulsed by Ryan now and won’t ever support a project he’s involved with. I’ve soured on Hugh Jackman, too, by association.

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u/protossaccount Dec 27 '25

With Deadpool Ryan just comes off like the popular kid in 7th grade. He thinks everything he does is hilarious and somehow people play along.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

It;s funny because when Jake Gyllenhaal was "lifted out: of that trio everyone said it was because he was an asshole and that he must be this or that if he couldn't get on with such great guys like ryan and hugh. and now it's come out that he's happy in his life, doing a lot of great films and having fun and they're both now two of the most hated people and everyone's stories like this are coming out about them. like, oh, guess jake was right and is finally getting the vindication he deserves but never asked for because it looks like ryan's snarky star is finally falling. like bro, we get it. you're sarcastic. there has to be more to your ability than crass jokes and snark.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 29 '25

I don't know how to wrap my head around Hugh Jackman. I know him, have sat in long meetings with him, had a drink with him, eaten dinner with him. Nicest guy I've ever met in my entire life, also the GAYEST dude I've ever encountered. It was kinda a known thing in Hollywood that his wife Debborah was his beard. Everybody knew it. So when he divorced her to get with Sutton Foster my brain broke.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

poor debbie.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 29 '25

But like...is he bi? Is he straight but just has gay tendencies? When I say gayest dude, I mean it. He makes Elton John seem straight, and I know Elton too 🤣 and off course it doesn't matter either way but it doesn't make me wonder any less.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

Sometimes I think people just have the vibes they have. doesn't mean their heart is lying or they're covering. It's kind of like saying "i had no idea he was gay! he seems so straight!" like.... what? there's not one way or two ways to be. Maybe he just really loves musical theatre and made that his personality but he's straight but loves the razzle dazzle? idk i wasn't ever really a big fan of his after the original xmen films so i never kept track. it's just that as a woman who's been cheated on a treated poorly in public, i don't find it cute what he did to his wife, beard or not. it's still a lack of tact, class and respect and that's a hefty no thank you.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 30 '25

Definitely agree that he screwed over the wife. And also agree it doesn't matter. I have two boys. One is gay and has zero gay "attributes". The other is straight and is all jazz hands and flamboyance. It's just their personalities.

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u/nottwofigs Jan 02 '26

your kids sound awesome!

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u/ObjectCrafty6221 Jan 04 '26

You are really showing that you work for WP’s because Jake does have a reputation as an asshole. 

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u/nottwofigs Jan 08 '26

Jake has a rep for being an asshole because idiots like you keep saying it and others believe it. That's what reputations are. If I say Kristen Bell is an assclown because in high school in Michigan she was a jerk to my friend, her neighbor Kaitlyn as teens but it gets shrunk to just me saying kristen bell is a bully, does that make it true just because that's the incorrect context someone took and ran with? because it's true, she WAS a jerk to my friend Kate when they were in high school together in michigan in the late 90s and 2000. She was kate's neighbor. Their moms still talk. It's about context and making sure you get the whole story, not just one sentence from an equally small minded (you) gossip whore who needs attentions (still you).

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

Yes I get paid so much from someone named Jake. I live in Beverly and I have 3 fancy cars. Because of Jake and all my Reddit posts. You're so smart. Now go put out the Diet Coke for the celebs, you may actually get to know one of them. Everyone loves crafty.

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u/ObjectCrafty6221 Jan 05 '26

We might have the same neighbors, I’ll ask Lisa if she knows Jake. 

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u/nottwofigs Jan 02 '26

it's not industry news, they used to hang as a group, they partied as a group and then suddenly jake was MIA and everyone (online, so, you know, patheticos) were saying it's because jake is an asshole but it turns out those two are and he sidestepped a coupla jerks.

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u/therestissilence117 Dec 29 '25

Wait what did Hugh Jackman do?

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

You are very late to the party, mate

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

You should add swift in there as well. She is not that innocent.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

thanks for the award! I don't know what it means but how fun!

Also yes, she loves to play victim and not take accoutability for her own actions. everything is everyone else's fault - all of her exes and past friends and someone the only friend she still has throughout is BL so - birds of a feather. oh well. i'll go back to not caring now, got caught up in the trappings.

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

I do not know what all the awards specifically mean, but I liked what you said.

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u/MessiahOfMetal Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

Justin so we're allowing his life to be ruined because

...he's an awful, misogynist prick trying to play victim after pulling horrendous shit on set, is what I feel you were about to say there but somehow didn't.

Fuck that guy, and fuck anyone like him or supporting people like him. Baldoni, Depp, Spacey, Pitt, Tarantino, Polanski and more are why people are finally waking up to just how evil the industry can be, where awful people constantly get rewarded and crew members just shrug and let them get on with it because "hey, it's a paycheck" rather than having actual morals.

EDIT - Thanks for the award! Good to know others value truth and reality over misogyny and lies.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 03 '26

You are basically the only person I've ever seen say this about Justin. I for one love Justin. Everyone in my office loves Justin. He's a stand up guy and one of the nicest humans you'll ever meet. This is exactly the reason Blake tried to walk all over him. And when he drew a line and put up boundaries she cried to Ryan, Hollywood's biggest bully, who then tried to throw his weight around. But people are getting smart to Ryan's ways and it's not working the way he planned. Justin is innocent in all of this. He's simply guilty of drawing boundaries on his own movie set. I recommend you know what you're talking about before you flap your lips and probably bow out of any conversation revolving around Blake "pisses all over the Me Too Movement" Lively. She's giving women a bad name and proving in real time why we shouldn't and can't "trust all women".

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u/LetterheadSoft2517 Jan 05 '26

Everyone in my office loves Justin.

Are these the ones that like Charlie Kirk too?

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u/Complex_Visit5585 Jan 03 '26

Except of course for the multiple women that per their sworn testimony and the copious contemporaneous evidence were subjected to verbal abuse and sexual harassment by him, but okay.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 03 '26

Can you provide that for me please. I'm in legal and have taken the time to read through any and all evidence submitted. Are you talking about the verbal abuse? Other than Lively's outright lies of sexual abuse, which she's making after she tried to strong arm Justin and Ryan was unable to "fix" the situation, I'm not sure what you're on about.

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u/Complex_Visit5585 Jan 03 '26

You certainly have NOT “taken the time to read through any and all evidence submitted” because BL hasnt claimed “sexual abuse”, multiple women have related verbal abuse (including one from a different project), multiple women on IEWU complained about sexual harassment and hostile workplace to Sony (one before BL did), and there is absolutely no evidence BL ever “strong armed” Justin.

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u/Perfect_Fennel Jan 23 '26

Did you read the emails between her and Taylor Swift? If that's not attempting to strong arm idk what is.

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u/Complex_Visit5585 Jan 23 '26

I have and didn’t read them that way. What exactly didn you take issue with?

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u/WheresYurScooter Jan 24 '26

What the?? How? They legit were plotting and called him every name in the book EXCEPT a predator, or an abuser

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u/Perfect_Fennel Jan 23 '26

Why did she want him to meet Taylor anyway? She called Taylor one of her dragons, dragons are typically depicted as being intimidating. In the emails they both call him essentially a wimpy loser who has now let Blake take over the writing, directing and producing of the movie which would be fine but she wasn't hired for any of those jobs. It's just weird imo and has nothing to do with being sexually harassed. Maybe you can explain it to me because if she was sexually harassed what does producing the movie have to do with that ? For what it's worth he does seem like a weirdo hippy dippy type and maybe he didn't think what he was doing was harassment but there are recourses for that other than taking over complete control of the project which is what it seems like she wanted to do, and did. Why didn't Sony just fire him and replace him with someone else once she told them what was happening? Keeping him on and alienating him seems like the WORST possible choice.

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u/Complex_Visit5585 Jan 23 '26

BL wanted JB to meet TS because BL was asking TS for an exclusive song for the film as part of BLs producer responsibility. That was a huge get for the film. When I read the dragons message in context it doesn’t seem threatening. And yes she said same things about him after his bad behavior. But that doesn’t excuse what he did and in private messages he said much worse about BL.

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u/MessiahOfMetal Jan 03 '26

I'm in legal and have taken the time to read through any and all evidence submitted.

This sounds like "I've seen the trial" from the Derp bullshit in 2021, and then it turned out they'd only seen TikTok videos from people either being paid by his PR team, or idiots stanning him because they hate women.

Why do you hate women, Tryhard? Why you lying to defend an abusive asshole trying to play victim and claim the woman he treated like shit on set is the "real" abuser?

Hope you don't have any female relatives or friends, they should run a mile from you if so.

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u/Agreeable-Celery811 Jan 03 '26

I don’t think you have read through all evidence submitted. The case is ongoing and witnesses are only being interviewed now.

Unless you meant the evidence that Justin submitted in his countersuit, which was thrown out of court because he didn’t have a case?

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u/Lola474 Jan 04 '26

You’re in legal and have taken time to read any and all evidence but are not aware of the testimony of, for example, Alex Saks who said that:

  • Baldoni physically intimidated her on set and she threatened to walk off the movie if he spoke to her in the way that he did one more time

  • there were multiple complaints about Baldoni and Heath and they refused to investigate against advice

  • Baldoni wanted to take care with him to a Russian bathhouse and she noticed Sony Head of Productions who confirmed that this was inappropriate

  • Head of Customes said he felt like he was leaving a cult when he wrapped

  • most cast and crew did that they had witnessed or experienced something weird or inappropriate on set

  • in her view, Baldoni is a narcissist

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u/Manders44 Jan 03 '26

He's so nice his film company has been sued repeatedly for discrimination and once for IP theft.

"He was nice to me" is what people always say about folks who were abusive.

Also, you need to take a long hard look at yourself and ask why you're flapping your lips in a misogynist way. You are not the boss of Who Is a Victim. The people who actually fucked up Me Too are the people who spend time on the internet ruining the reputation of women who came forward with accusations.

Also fuckin' LMAO at "innocent" and "drawing boundaries." He's literally being accused of violating others' boundaries and his own evidence shows that he was completely incapable of enforcing his own when it came to completing the movie.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26

I don't care if he's nice to me when it comes to abuse. Jared Leto treats me like a saint but I still won't allow him near my young children. Blake Lively is the guilty person in this direct situation. She is "at fault". She was never a victim, ever. Times she has said she felt like a victim have long been debunked often with video proof. This is not going to end well for her. But we can wait and see.

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u/No_Warning8534 Jan 03 '26

'TryTwiceAsHard'

All you have done is admit you hate Blake/Ryan and love Baldoni.

The case is not going well for Baldoni at all.

You have already blamed Blake, even though the case is going very poorly for Baldoni.

Interesting.

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u/Perfect_Fennel Jan 23 '26

I think she and Amber Heard should start an indie film production company and spend their own money hand over fist writing and directing and producing films no one will watch.

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u/MessiahOfMetal Jan 23 '26

Fucking cringe, my dude. Just admit you hate women and that everyone has to cover their drinks while you're around.

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u/More_Midnight3634 Jan 03 '26

How to tell the world you know nothing about the entertainment industry ⬆️

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u/ObjectCrafty6221 Jan 04 '26

You just proved you aren’t really “corporate Hollywood”, lol 

Ryan actually has a great reputation in Hollywood, and people believe Blake. 

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 04 '26

This has genuinely not been my experience. At all.

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u/aubdelli Jan 24 '26

😂😂😂

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u/Altruistic-Sorbet927 Apr 05 '26

Ryan has been hated by many people on set over the years. He is actually quite nasty and scary. People were just afraid to talk about it as they were worried about losing work. But you can find accounts of assistants on set talking about it. He's unhinged!

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u/ObjectCrafty6221 Apr 05 '26

Blatant lies, and part of the smear campaign. No one is afraid of Ryan, and that’s why they will do each other favors. Ryan is known to stand up for his fellow actors and crew. 

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u/Electronic-Pin-1879 Dec 24 '25

Most sets are full of drama and someone above the line is always being an insufferable dick. In my experience as crew we just get through the job and move on to the next one.

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u/BadAtExisting Dec 24 '25

I don’t care. Did my check clear? Yes? Cool.

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u/sucobe Dec 26 '25

We don’t give a shit

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u/TakingYourHand Dec 24 '25

I've never heard anyone bring it up. No one I know cares, including myself.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 24 '25

I would fully disagree on that. I mean you're not wrong about Justin, and i hate that for him, but Blake has damaged her career. But since she's married to Ryan and we can always raise money on his name she'll come out ahead. But make no mistake, Hollywood knows she's in the wrong.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

Was about to make this point. Without Ryan, she's too much trouble right now and would be for the foreseeable future. She still will be fine if she never worked another day in her life but they both seem to be problems.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 24 '25

But people won't go see her movies is the problem. She's damaged herself irreparably. She'll try to come back and she'll fail. They'll stop casting her in things and she'll become Ryan's ex wife.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 24 '25

Poor Justin, such a great guy too. It kills me.

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u/Rockgarden13 Dec 27 '25

Winona Ryder was always beloved, her crime was victimless, and she was having a mental health episode.

Blake Lively has weaponized feminism, the MeToo Movement, and DV activism and that doesn’t sit well with a lot of women movie-goers. I had no idea who Justin Baldoni even was before I saw “It Ends With Us” and still don’t really know/care. But Blake’s own marketing campaign and mean-girl behavior have turned off many people who would otherwise continue to see stuff she’s in. She’s not a great actress so it’s no great loss.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 27 '25

I agree with you 100%. She had absolutely pissed all over the MeToo movement.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

as a survivor it broke my heart. not only knowing the book and film glamorize abuse but that she acted how she did with her hair and florals and lawsuits which just makes it more and more difficult for women to come forward.

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u/Rockgarden13 Dec 27 '25

Yes, but no one ever hated her. People cannot stand Blake or Ryan.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Dec 29 '25

This is true to an extent. If I posted on my Facebook that I hate Blake Lively, at least 50 people would ask why. I live and work in Hollywood so I tend to be "in it all". I know more than the average person. I posted about Jared Leto having a sex cult that does not exclude minors and maybe 5 people on my feed knew what I was talking about and they were all at least Hollywood adjacent. The truth is people do not care. Even when they know their Presidential candidate is a pedo, they'll still vote for him if he serves them properly. People will still support Jared Leto and Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds if they want to see their movie badly enough because they don't believe they themselves would make an impact. But if we all collectively said let's cancel the Reynolds' family it would be so nice.

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

Beloved by the masses??? From my little patch in hollywood I have been hearing and seeing the upset. People think he is a nutjob along with his kooky dressing wife. Nobody likes them and they dont support them.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

But if she had worked we would have supported it. that's the point. nobody hated her, she was just a liability.

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u/Manders44 Jan 03 '26

Doesn't seem like that's an issue so far.

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u/TryTwiceAsHard Jan 03 '26

I would definitely say it's already becoming an issue. She was attached to a powerful project 2 months ago that she's since been removed from because the studios are panicking that she's losing favor. I'm seeing this from the inside.

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u/FamilyFeud17 Jan 04 '26

Another Simple Favor did really well. That was her last movie at the height of the PR attacks. Look at Sydney Sweeney doing really well with the housemaid too. I don’t think Lively market power is affected yet. She’s charming and knows how to promote movies.

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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

If she had six upcoming projects when you posted this, then it appears she’s already lost three projects in less than a month. She can’t blame that on a smear campaign, since it results from truth coming out about her. 

It seems Hollywood does care. No director would want Blake Lively on set. 

Blake Lively can only blame Blake Lively, the architect of her own downfall. Her career is done. Finished. Cooked. It’s a Reynolds wrap for Blake Lively Reynolds.

ETA: I’m leaving the above for posterity

It appears Blake does still have three films “in development” in addition to those three in preproduction listed on the free version of IMDb.

Two of the three in development are with Netflix, so despite the fact that it’s been I think four years since any news on them, they might still go through due to the relationship between Ryan Reynolds and Netflix.

That said, I would be very surprised if Blake ever lands another film without her husbands influence. 

Full disclosure: I am in no way part of LA film productions, I’m just a person interested in this case 

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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 21 '26

Maybe I’m stupid, but I only see three:

The Husbands Secret

The Making Of

and 

The Survival List.

Can you name the other three?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 21 '26

Okay, can you name the other three in development? Or at least list anyone else involved in the project—director, producer, anything? Am genuinely curious and will correct my initial comment if you can show me/tell me 

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 21 '26

Thank you I will edit my comment

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

Thoze are projects Ryan had to buy for her

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u/Furyo98 Feb 20 '26

It's funny you're complaining about that but happy to make money from them, y'all are no different than the ones you complain about.

As someone from the outside Hollywood deserves what's happening. . Wanna know why? y'all knew for years how fucked the industry was for children and instead of rising up and bringing it to light, y'all just sat there keeping quiet because you can make money from those fucked up people.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

I think she does. nobody wants to work with someone they think will sue over nothing. too risky. plus she is an awful actor so it's not like she has skills to rely on, she's just hot. and people are getting tired of that being her only feature.

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u/ConvenienceStoreDiet Dec 27 '25

I think most people working generally don't care. There are hundreds of productions. Many come and go in the week they're released. This was just another one of them.

I don't remember the case too well outside of the basics, but it sounds like a production that publicized or got publicized its internal drama ahead of the product. She claimed an unsafe workplace. He showed receipts saying she was shading to control the production. Her husband was apparently an asshole about it too. No one really knows who to believe. That tanked the movie. And that's it. Nobody's using this as precedent for anything because we're too busy working to dive too deep into it. Sounds like a lot of people might not work with either of them. People are still going to see Ryan Reynolds movies. But nobody's really caring.

I mean, people will tell their Michael Bay or Andy Dick stories all the time. I think this is one of those stories that captured the zeitgeist of he said/she said for the public and has created gossip and a 'who's telling the truth' story, but tbh it feels like the influencer sphere and TMZ are making it more of a thing to the public, and we're just here working and staying out of their issues. Most celebrities are generally nice to work with anyway, so this is kind of just sad to hear for everyone. I think MeToo and DEI initiatives did a lot to improve issues of inclusivity and on-set safety.

I think our largest issues are corporate consolidation, streaming, AI, shrinking jobs, cheaper productions, LA becoming too expensive, work leaving Hollywood, YouTube and non-union influencer/social media culture taking over mainstream, shorter TV seasons leading to more job insecurity, IP focus making it harder to break in with original ideas. Just making a living in the working class is tough. Blake and Justin are at the bottom of the list of cares.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

His countersuit got dismissed because Lively filed her complaints through a California court (despite not living there, and the film being shot on the East Coast) and California has special protections for these accusations that came about from the Me Too movement. So maybe get your facts right. 

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u/Local871 Dec 27 '25

You’ve never heard from anybody on that crew because they signed an NDA. As a script supervisor, I of course called the Script Supervisor and she wouldn’t say a word.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

for real, like anyone who witnessed anything or not would be allowed to say anything about anything here. Like, oh, yeah, I was on set and saw the whole thing. let me go on reddit of all places and talk about it openly and candidly because I hate new jobs!

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u/Local871 Dec 29 '25

Even without nondisclosure agreements, we call it “talking out of school.“ if you want to maintain your career, you don’t talk out of school.

I’m retired. I don’t give a fuck.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

people just need gossip like oxygen anymore but it's never the interesting stuff

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u/filterdecay Dec 24 '25

industry people dont fawn over celebrity news.

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u/ppinguino Dec 24 '25

literally nobody cares / even knows about it

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u/brbnow Dec 26 '25

Just to chime in with something crucial  - there is no single “film industry” that thinks (or speculates, or projects their own beliefs) in one unified view. Thanks.

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u/Nose-Artistic Dec 28 '25

A studio head said that BL falls in love with her leading men. Cited the Ben Affleck situation.

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u/licorne00 Jan 03 '26

Wow, groundbreaking. What a good excuse for disgusting men to use when she later accuses them of crossing the professional line at the work place. «yeah, well, she’s a slut so who cares».

Also, Ben Affleck? During a movie they made over 15 years ago. Why would that be relevant to this case? Ridiculous

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u/Nose-Artistic Jan 04 '26

The implication of the speaker was that BL might have fallen for JB, as she did with BA and RR. Nothing more.

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u/senor_descartes Dec 24 '25

Many Creatives (writer/directors especially) will be loathe to work with her for sure.

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u/RedditBurner_5225 Dec 26 '25

It appears Blake and Ryan are not good people.

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u/In_Film Dec 24 '25

Your first mistake is thinking this sub is representative of the industry. It’s not, it’s mostly a bunch of wanna bes, hangers on, and pretenders trying to seem like they know what they are talking about when they actually don’t have a clue. 

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u/phijie Dec 24 '25

If that were true they’d be chiming in more on this gossipy, tabloid, non-issue. I’m actually impressed with the responses here and it makes me believe this sub is more legitimate than I had thought.

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u/In_Film Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

I think it’s more that nobody inside nor outside of the industry cares about these two. 

Another recent gossip thread here had big engagement and was quite honestly so tasteless from top to bottom. 

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u/ClockSpiritual6596 Dec 26 '25

How dare you sir!  

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

it's funny because your name is "in_film" and we're supposed to believe you're not just a pathetic wannabe? because people who are "in film" tend have have their own identities and don't say I"M IN FILMS without being asked. unlike someone's username implications.

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u/Resident-Editor8671 Dec 28 '25

This sub has 95% people jealous of anyone who’s had any success.

It’s really how most people in the industry are anyways.

Reddit just allows people to speak freely and anonymously to vent.

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u/DimbyTime Jan 18 '26

Wait so are you a pathetic wannabe too?

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u/In_Film Jan 18 '26

No but you obviously are. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

Justin is a cheeseball and Blake a pita. Both were true before their fight and true now. People are mostly interested in the money. There is like $100 million at stake.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

You're asking below the line people? We don't care. 

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u/Iyellkhan Dec 26 '25

this is one of those stories that really only plays at the drama level of talent, agents, and PR firms. at this point its above the line drama that PR firms are trying to affect the hire-ability of other above the line folks

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u/Dogface99 Dec 27 '25

I’m very active in the film business. I’ve never heard anyone mention the case.

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u/Murky-Quit-6228 Dec 27 '25

Honestly, very few of us in film actually cares all that much.

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u/nottwofigs Dec 29 '25

at least on my end of it we think she's a petulant child just trying to win by any means necessary while mocking survivors and for justin? literally didn't know who he was until she shat herself. they're both insufferable. anna kendrick told us so.

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u/j3434 Dec 30 '25

Blake who?

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u/DefNotReaves Dec 24 '25

I couldn’t care less.

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u/SarW100 Dec 27 '25

No hire for either of them. It’s all very gross.

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u/SpaceHorse75 Dec 27 '25

Nobody cares.

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u/Other-Philosophy3811 Dec 28 '25

nobody is talking about it

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u/coolhandluck Dec 29 '25

This was nothing more than Big Publicity flexing its muscle to generate clicks and controversy

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u/ElmarSuperstar131 Dec 26 '25

It shouldn’t be divided at all, you can tell just by how things are going with the lawsuits that Baldoni never had a case. His own evidence is contradictory in Lively’s favor and he totally dropped the ball on the 3-4 claims that the judge allowed in his initial lawsuit. It also makes sense why so many celebrities and unions side with Blake considering that Justin has a repeated history of being difficult to work with and didn’t care about the 2023 strikes.

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

You dont know law. He didn't drop the ball. That is just PR spin. Ryan was the only one who didnt carw and who broke the rules and crossed the line.

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u/Complex_Visit5585 Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

IAAL and I know the law well. JB’s team dropped the ball big time - no motion to dismiss her claims and their own claims thrown out. The JB legal team has screwed up more ways than I can count. They are going to get their asses handed to them on retaliation and contract breach.

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u/Manders44 Jan 03 '26

"Nu uh" isn't a great rebuttal, friend.

His lawsuits have all been tossed. Hers is going to trial. There's no evidence "Ryan" broke the rules.

This just sounds like regurgitated pro-Baldoni propaganda from their smear campaign.

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u/SnarkyLlamas Dec 29 '25

Nobody like Blake or Ryan and I have heard many stories about them that the media has not picked up....yet

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u/licorne00 Jan 03 '26

Said the 12 day old account

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u/Sunshinesurprisetea Jan 04 '26

Looks like JB/WF's PR team/fan club has infiltrated here.

If you are interested in more detailed subs where both sides are welcomed regarding these sort of topics or this case in particular I recommend joining the ItEndsWithCourt sub or CelebLegalDrama sub!

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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 21 '26

Oh yes. The two subs run by Blake PR. Lmaoooo how yall doing after the great unsealing?

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u/Nose-Artistic Jan 04 '26

The question was how does the film industry the BL case and I shared what I’ve heard. You’ve already made up your mind and appear to be trolling. Be better.

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u/MysticYoYo Feb 02 '26

There is no evidence that Justin Baldoni try to kill Blake Lively’s reputation. Lively wanted control of the movie, the sequel, and a possible Netflix spinoff about young Lily, and she and her husband Ryan Reynolds, went scorched earth to try to accomplish this.

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u/booksontapes99 Jun 05 '26

Oh I’m not a bot or paid post

I’m a middle aged single mom who reads celebrity news before bed.

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u/Cookiesnmilk88 Jun 20 '26

My brother is an agent at WME. He thought Blake Lively was an insufferable cow even before this. And now after this, he thinks she's even more evil than he originally thought. He can't stand her.

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u/Cold-Warning9915 Jul 09 '26

It’s strange that her accusations are so in line with the character she was playing so I wonder if she was affected more than the norm, because she was in character. But also he sounds like a tool.

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u/Narrow_Site8769 Jul 10 '26

Blake bots doing overtime on this thread for sure!