Actress Blake Lively has filed a lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, director of the movie “It Ends with Us,” alleging that Baldoni sexually harassed Lively and had his public relations team orchestrate a smear campaign against her. Ta.
Baldoni has denied any wrongdoing and has filed his own $250 million lawsuit, not against Blake Lively, but against the New York Times, which reported on the allegations. His attorney, Brian Friedman, threatened to file a lawsuit against Lively.
Both parties accuse the other of orchestrating a smear campaign to destroy the other's career and reputation.
A few months ago, videos of Blake Lively's past interviews started circulating. allie beth stuckey Number of comments that I can relate to. “Although she didn't post it herself, other people started posting old Blake Lively interviews, including anonymous I was there.”
“Is this a set-up?” Stuckey asks. “I'm not saying it was, but I've heard more negative things about Blake Lively in recent months than I've ever heard.”
Internet sleuths have pointed out that not only do Lively and Baldoni not follow each other on social media, but many of the cast members of “Harlem Ends” follow Lively, not Baldoni. . Colleen Huber, who wrote the book on which the film is based, no longer follows Baldoni, and Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds blocked Baldoni on social media months before the film was released.
Despite the obvious issues between Baldoni and Lively, some fans have accused Lively of promoting her project as “tone-deaf” during the film's promotion.
In “It Ends with Us,” Lively's character Lily Bloom owns a flower shop. At one event, Lively promoted her cocktail company, Betty Bloom's. Fans found this offensive, as the film was a commentary on domestic violence.
“Given the importance of the movie's subject matter, people just thought it was a weird marketing gimmick. I don't know. I don't really know about that. I don't know if it's tone-deaf, but… Maybe that's the case,” Stuckey said.
“Of course domestic violence is serious, but that's what Colleen Hoover is like. She writes about some serious topics, but in a very romantic way, in a kind of light-hearted, very easy way. “I write in a bibliometric way. So I don't know if Blake Lively is to blame for something like this,” she added.
However, some fans pointed out that promoting cocktails in her new movie was worse than being tone-deaf, as domestic abusers are often emboldened by alcohol.
“That's true, that's fair,” Stuckey says.
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