Did Lively sexually harass Baldoni? Or vice versa?
Baldoni is weird. Lively is is thoroughly loathsome. She is a conniving b___ch to everyone she works with. She screwed Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchette. So I can easily imagine that she screwed Baldoni.
People should steer clear of Lively.
I wouldn’t recognize either of these dopes if they passed out on my front doorstep.
She’s worse than him personal behavior which is saying something as u point out
And I think judge just dismissed her sexual harassment claims
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It started him resisting her trying to take control of his project
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ex59yy4j2o
I at one time tried to figure out what all this was about, but I got bored real fast.
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Lol. On a scale of 1 to Anne Hathaway, Blake Lively is a 4 at best. I’ve never understood the attraction and why she got so much work. Maybe she has blackmail on some Directors. A run of the mill actress on a good day. Like that effing Pedro Pascal who is in everything and it’s a head scratching moment to figure out why these clowns are so ubiquitous.
I saw ‘It Ends With Us’ in the theater and plan to support Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios should they do anything - even small - in the future. I believe they collaborated with Scarlett Johansson on something before all this. Want to see that.
That doesn't sound right. I'd expect that in a mediation, but not from a judge.
Taking this case to trial would be an horrendous waste of taxpayer dollars. Blake should quit before she loses and has to pay even more legal fees.
Baldoni is the product of a Catholic-Jewish mixed marriage. I don’t know anything about his personal faith journey, but he converted to Bahai. By all accounts, he is very serious about it and tries to live his faith in the very self-conscious, wear-it-on-your-sleeve way that converts often have.
He co-founded Wayfarer Studios, a production company, which was also accused in Lively’s lawsuit. The big money guy behind Wayfarer is also Bahai, and I gather that many Bahais are involved with the company. It is not a big player, but it takes on projects that are very much morally centered around themes stressed by the Bahai faith. When Lively filed her lawsuit, I got interested in the behind the curtain look at how the industry works, and specifically how it works when things go off the rails. I watched a number of interviews. Baldoni strikes me as consistent. He wants to take his work seriously as a testament to living his faith. As a company, Wayfarer seems to be the same. If Baldoni and his partners were Christian, we would be cheering for a faith based studio refusing to be rolled by Big Hollywood Powers.
I also watched portions of his podcast, which has received a lot of criticism from people who apparently have never watched it. Rather than deciding which internet graffiti you want to credit (because it feeds your pre-existing prejudices, look it up and watch a couple of samples. It doesn’t strike me as woke; it strikes me as too touchy-feely for my taste, but it’s all about men taking responsibility for their own actions, striving to be morally centered, and dealing with their own issues without blaming or lashing out at others.
Baldoni has been married since 2013 to Emily Foxler, now Emily Baldoni, a Swedish actor. He casts her in supporting roles in his movies, so fwiw, she was onset during the filming of It Ends With Us. (She was in Coherence, which a lot of freepers have watched; it’s on my list of noteworthy ultra-low budget movies.) They are married and have two kids.
As far as I know, Baldoni has always had a reputation as one of the good guys in Hollywood. I’m not trying to set him up as a plaster saint, but until Lively’s quite lurid accusations, I have never heard a hint of scandal about him.
It is clear at this point that Baldoni and Wayfarer were completely sandbagged by BL, Ryan Reynolds, and the NYT, which published a lurid hit piece in conjunction with Lively’s sexual harassment complaint and subsequent lawsuit. The NYT ran entirely with Lively’s story, worked on the piece for some time, and never at any point contacted Baldoni and his partner at Wayfarer, also named in Lively’s complaints, for their side of the story. It was a hit piece in the worst tradition of ambush journalism.
Baldoni and Wayfarer went silent while the press turned Lively into the Injured Woman Triumphant. But Baldoni and Wayfarer considered their options — this at a point at which the press thought they had been nuked — and decided to fight back. Baldoni hired a junkyard dog lawyer, and when he broke cover and opened counterfire, what ensued was one of the epic reversals in memory. Lively had made very specific and quite lurid accusations. Baldoni’s lawyer released complete email and text message chains. He released unedited footage of the scenes in question. It went on and on. However this case turns out, Lively has been destroyed in the court of public opinion.
I know most freepers neither know nor care anything about the people involved, but this is a landmark case that may go down in the history books as an expose of big Hollywwod players trying to roll a little guy, and having it blow up in their faces. It’s also worth noting that this occurred at or near Peak Woke, and #MeToo hustlers have just taken some serious hits beneath the waterline.
P.S. The BL-JB controversy has come up several times on FR. You have always been in full scorched earth mode against JB, but I don’t recall that you have ever raised a specific issue about Baldoni, apart from the generalized accuaation that he is uber woke.
Can you be specific? Have you ever watched one of his films or documentaries? Have you watched any of his interviews? Have you watched any excerpts of his Am I Man Enough podcast?
Why the animus? Did Baldoni do something to you personally, or are you just a huge Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively fan with a parasocial obsession?
Update. Disney just tossed her under the bus...
Hope she takes hubby with her after this...
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65198172/
Update...
Those two truly deserve each other.