Blake’s Team BACKPEDALING ？!!
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Summary
We know why Blake Lively settled this late in the case. Now we know why Ryan Reynolds is calling up all the people that he rubbed wrong way. Also, why the movie stars are disappearing from Cannes Film Festival and one of the judge who was supposed to be a judge, apparently broke his foot and couldn t make it.
Transcript
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Now we know why Blake Lively settled this late in the case.
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Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk. I'm Jashti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice
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of reason in a town built on delusion. If you missed my episode yesterday you may not know that
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I am not in LA right now. I'm in Spain and this is my studio here in Spain. I also have a bad
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allergy going on so my eyes are a little weird and swollen so I'm sorry about my appearance right
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now. Anyways one more thing I want to mention before I start this episode is that there is a
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Facebook page out there and it's not me. It looks like this and they have a phone number and email
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and everything there so I'm assuming they're trying to scam people. I've reported this a few
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times already myself but it's still there so if you want to and if you have time it would be amazing
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if you also report this page because it would be so horrible if they actually use this to scam
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people. Anyways, now we know why Blake Lively settled this late in the case. There are some
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new information out there now and this is really hilarious. And if you watched my episode last week
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where I talked about Manette, Phelps and Phillips, one of the major legal teams that Blake Lively
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hired for this case, they bragged on LinkedIn on how this was a big victory for Blake Lively
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And now it seems like they have deleted the post.
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Also, we have some new text messages between Blake Lively and Colleen Hoover.
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These texts clearly show the plotting that was going on behind the scenes
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and also the love bombing and manipulation from Blake Lively's side.
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And someone sent me an email reminding me on how Ryan Reynolds
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sent a long apology letter to Colleen Hoover the day after the premiere of It Ends With Us
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saying that he was so sorry that he didn't have the time to talk to her on the premiere.
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And let's also talk about why the movie stars are disappearing from Cannes Film Festival.
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And one of the movie stars, who was supposed to be a judge right now,
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Jacob O'Lordi, apparently broke his foot and couldn't make it.
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But now there's pictures everywhere of him and Kendall Jenner in Hawaii on vacation.
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Brian Reynolds just reposted something from Marina Baccarin on his Instagram.
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The actress who played his girlfriend in the Deadpool movies
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saying it was eight years ago today that they did this shoot.
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As you know, there are so many rumors that Ryan was avoiding Marina
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at the red carpet of the Deadpool movie and so many people were speculating if something had
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happened there and why he was shading her like that. And as you know, there were a lot of bad
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blood between him and TJ Miller as well, also from the Deadpool movies. And for some reason,
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TJ Miller all of a sudden came out and was like, oh no, Ryan and I, we are friends again. He just
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called me the other day. So this is what I think is happening right now. Ryan Reynolds came out
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why don't you publish something about Deadpool right now
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and I'll repost it and we're good friends again.
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And you know, I'll do you a favor back if you do that.
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that she's coming out now praising Ryan Reynolds.
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Do you think Ryan is calling up all these people
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about this pizza place in New York that she really loves.
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As I said yesterday, all these small businesses are now terrified that Blake Lively is going to
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tag their business in any of her Instagram posts or stories. Because as you know, Blake Lively is
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bad for business. I also found it very interesting that she keeps posting about pizza, and yesterday
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it was about donuts, all these really unhealthy foods. When we know that she made such a big deal
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about being fat shamed by Justin Baldoni, and now she's sharing with everyone all the unhealthy
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food she's eating. Anyways, I guess she can eat as many pizzas and donuts as she wants in the
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forthcoming future because she's not going to prepare for any movie parts anytime soon. Okay,
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so let's look at this post on LinkedIn that Blake Lively's attorneys apparently just deleted. This
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was really funny. Thank you, Desi, again for being such an investigative journalist here. So she sent
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me the post that Manat Phelps and Phillips published on their LinkedIn a few days ago. I
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think I spoke about this just late last week. And it said, a Manat team led by Ezra Hudson
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secured a favorable settlement for Blake Lively in her case against Justin Baldoni and Wayfair
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Studios. This marks another critically important step in Ms. Lively's pursuit of justice after
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raising concerns about inappropriate behavior during production of It Ends With Us and the
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subsequent retaliation campaign levied against her. Then they have a picture of Ezra Hudson here
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and a little quote from her saying, from day one, Blake Lively's mission was clear,
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expose and hold accountable those who weaponize smear campaigns and retaliatory lawsuits to
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intimidate and silence survivors. That mission continues. Anyways, this was their post and it's
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gone. Isn't that funny? After I reported on this post, I don't know if people went over there and
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started commenting on it and they were like, maybe we should just review this. Anyways, it's gone now.
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I forwarded it to Brian Friedman as well, who thought obviously that this was really insane.
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So yes, I guess Manat is not so proud of this victory anymore. Or maybe they just embarrassed
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that they were caught in lying. Talking about deleted posts, as I spoke about the other day as
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well. All the other co-stars of Blake Lively have deleted every single post with her and about It
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Ends With Us. Brandon Sklenar deleted his entire Instagram, something Colleen Hoover also did.
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She just went off Instagram, but that was in the middle of the drama. Now she's back, as you know,
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but no posts of Blake Lively. And the same goes for Brandon Sklenar. But just a reminder to
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everyone what brandon actually said in his initial post when he's he was supporting blake lively he
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went on and on about how you should support women and blah blah blah and then at the end of this
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post he said all i ask is that before you spread hate on the internet ask yourself who it's helping
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ask yourself if your opinions are based in any facts i love how this all look so terrible right
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now. Or if you simply want to be part of something, let's be part of something better together, he
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suggests. A part of a new story being written for women and all people everywhere. Lead with love
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and please be kind. Yeah, I mean, talk about aging badly. And then he also attached the complaint
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and the New York Times article and they said, for the love of God, read this. And then he tagged
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Blake Lively with a heart. I haven't seen many hearts from Brandon Sclinart to Blake Lively
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lately. I really wonder if any of these people are in contact. And we all remember how America
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Ferrara also came out to support Blake Lively. She actually still has that post up on her Instagram
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and it says, as Blake's friend and sisters for over 20 years, we stand with her in solidarity
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as she fights back against the reported campaign
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Throughout the filming of It Ends With Us,
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we saw her summon the courage to ask for a safe workplace
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of DV survivor stories to silence a woman who asked for safety. The hypocrisy is astounding,
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she said. Talk about hypocrisy. I think America Ferrara should come out and apologize publicly
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for standing by Blake Lively. I was looking at her Instagram and it's flooded with justice for
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Justin and people saying, you know, come out and apologize. It is okay to make a mistake,
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But if you do, you have to own up to your mistake.
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I know so many people out there who read that New York Times article who believed her.
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Because as you know, she manipulated the truth so much.
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And because a very respected newspaper at the time wrote the piece, people ate it up.
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And I hope America Ferrara is going to do that.
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Anyways, let's look into this People Magazine article.
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Of course, it mentions that Blake Lively got zero money from this settlement.
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But the excuse for her settling later in the case made me just laugh so hard.
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So it says here that the Wafers lawyers say Blake Lively didn't get a cent of a 300 million
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A filing confirmed Lively received no settlement payout, but a judge must decide
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whether she can recover fees or damages under California anti-retaliation law. So the fact that
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this has become public knowledge must really infuriate Blake Lively's attorneys. I'm sure
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they fought really hard to keep this part of the settlement secret. As you know, Blake was really
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fighting for an NDA for Justin and everyone involved, but they did not agree to that. They
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said, no way, we're going to come out with our truth here. But the fact that it's also been
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leak that they got zero cents or zero dollars must be really devastating for them because that proves
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everything. That just proves everything about Blake Lively's case that it was all based on
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Blake and Ryan's egos, greed and feelings. So here's a source who told People Magazine something
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really interesting. They say that for Blake Lively this was never about money. Okay we already heard
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she said that. It was about exposing bad actors who are also harming others. So now it's not about
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Blake anymore, it's about others. She didn't settle her claims until the documents exposing the bad
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actors behind smear campaigns were made public. Documents that have led to other lawsuits and
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investigations, the source added. With this motion, she is breathing life into a groundbreaking
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statute designed to protect survivors from retaliatory lawsuits. Isn't that noble? She
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spends millions and millions and millions of dollars for other people to not experience
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smear campaigns or underground untraceable smear machines, as her lawyer put it. So that is why
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this is a victory for Blake. It's not because she got anything out of it, except maybe some
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attorney's fees if she will ever get that, but it is because she is helping other people. This is
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all they got. They found out, as you know, that some of the same actors that Justin Baldoni hired
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were also hired by other celebrities who also are involved in lawsuits but the fact is that
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Blake Lively could never point to one single article or anything any lies that were spread
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about her online and there wasn't any smear website about her and the other cases that are
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insinuating that these people are involved in smearing someone there was a smear website and
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that's what it's all about, smear websites. There was no smear website against Blake but apparently
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that doesn't matter for Blake because she feels that what she did was for the greater good
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and that's why she was happy to spend about 50 million dollars on this lawsuit. Imagine how much
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good she could have done with that money to actually help real victims instead of spending
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them and giving them to attorneys. Also, they added here that by agreeing to the settlement
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and waiving their right to appeal, Baldoni and every individual defendant now face personal
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liability for abusing the legal system to silence and intimidate Ms. Lively, her attorney said in
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a statement. Yeah, but as you know, Blake Lively also waived her rights to appeals. That's what
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you do in a settlement. You waive the rights to appeal to finish something off. And by finding a
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sneaky backdoor to keep fighting instead? What does that really say about Blake? And what does
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it say about these attorneys? I mean, it's insane. Anyways, as I said, there are some new text
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messages that have been unsealed between Blake Lively and Colleen Hoover. These were in the
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same lump of unsealed documents as the one I mentioned the other day with Jenny Slate,
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between Jenny Slate and Blake Lively. And these ones tells us a lot about what was going on
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behind the scenes. It made me think about these text messages when I received this email from
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Mary Kate. Thank you so much for sending me this. She said, I was thinking about the Colleen Hoover
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of it all and the text between Jenny and Blake kind of undermining her. Well, that made me think
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of and go back to Ryan's email to Colleen after the premiere where he says, holy F, you did it,
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etc. I read up that text message a long time ago. Ryan's text messages are so long, so I'm not
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gonna repeat that but anyways he was just like oh you're the best blah blah blah and then she
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continues here to say and apologizes for not talking to her at the premiere due to chatting
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with the other executives i think he totally snubbed her on that night i wouldn't be surprised
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if she didn't get much attention from blake either i think they had already conquered her
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didn't need her anymore and were on the next people they needed to schmooze and love bump
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I don't think he even called her, he just emailed her.
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Does that add a bit more to the puzzle about how they really feel about Colleen?
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So here is a text exchange between Blake and Colleen.
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This is from May 21st, or May 20th to May 21st, between the two of them,
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when Blake Lively is in this bake-off with Justin Baldoni about the edit of the movie.
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So the two of them are going back and forth about changing up some scenes.
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and it makes that scene with Ryle hurt even more
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smart I'll try it my only concern is I haven't married Ryle yet interesting she says I haven't
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married Ryle yet talking about herself as Lily which makes me believe that she actually think
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Justin is Ryle herself as I said a lot of pro Blake Lively supporters believe I think that
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Justin is actually Ryle and maybe Blake also believes that it seems like it here she says
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I haven't married Ryle yet that's two scenes away Blake is saying so I'm nervous to take
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away any reasons why she may not dump Ryle for him and Ryle has already abused her oh you're
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right says Colleen I was thinking this was right after the wedding but Elisa was a red dress
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pregnant yeah it's so interesting because as you know Colleen had never made a movie before this
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one and she said so many times that it was such an interesting experience for her because she
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didn't know really how to make a movie and that makes it even more interesting that she was trying
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to change things in the script and as you know she sold the rights to this movie to the wayfair
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parties so when an author sells the rights to a book they sell the right to have an opinion about
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it most of the time people don't want them to get involved more because it just makes more mess like
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you can see here and then of course Blake is acting like the screenwriter and director here
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to her saying yeah that would work no that wouldn't work so then she shuts down this idea
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and then she says but I do like when she when he was unpacking the food that's smart Blake says
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she wants to keep some of Colleen's ideas in here to make her happy and then she says and we'll also
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try the truck again but take my own pass at it I just tweak theirs so she keeps changing things
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and as you know Sony asked her to change things back most of the things that Blake added to this
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movie was changed back by Sony and it ended up being more or less just Justin's version that
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was shown. And then Colleen Lovebombs Blake saying last week when you said you love and are obsessed
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with work I got really jealous because I used to feel that passion for writing. I get up early and
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stay up late and never sleep and my kids were your kids ages yet I'd still somehow power through and
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get shit done. But this past week has been so much fun working on notes and thinking about the movie
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and being excited for it all over again and not sleeping. I miss this and now I'm wondering if
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If it's a result of me like I lost input in the one book I wrote, that means something to me.
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I know nothing about film, but it's been exciting learning.
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Even when I give you notes that can't work, you've been so good in explaining why I'm not soaking it all in.
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Yes, Colleen is really grateful for Blake Lively's input here and for her to allow her to have opinions as well.
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As you know, she complained to Justin and the Wayfair parties for not listening to her enough
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as well. And then Blake responds with this. She says, this text honestly made my week. This job
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has been the hardest of my life for more reasons than I can articulate. All I had was the work.
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That was it. So I became possessed. Yes, you could say that. I couldn't want any validation
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of my feelings or experience. That wasn't realistic because it would involve me having
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to share and in that maybe mess up someone else's experience but slowly I watched the people around
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me unfortunately have similar experiences but it still felt like everyone at the top level
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had their heads down so after she allowed Colleen Hoover to have input in the script she's sharing
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how hard this experience has been for her being on this toxic set and she felt so alone but then
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she wasn't alone because so many other people felt exactly the same way. And then she added,
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but it still feels like everyone on the top level had their heads down. They didn't want to get
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involved. She's talking about Sony here. It was too big to touch until Josh came along. Josh
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Greenstein was helping out Blake Wiley, as you know, but it was still just him trusting me to
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be on the right side of this thing. And then you showed up. Here we go. And I use the word showed
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up because you didn't just email me you showed up capital letters literally physically emotionally
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creatively and like a big gold plot twist at the happy ending of this hellscape so thank you
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yours is the only opinion I care about in this film because you're the author but also because
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you know your audience better than anyone I know your value and I feel you know mine
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ultimately we all do our best when we feel seen so thank you for this note for showing up for the
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gift of this story it's been life-changing for worse and now finally it's starting to feel like
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for better well say that again Blake and then of course Colleen Hoover's love all of these things
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that Blake Lively said I remember listening to another creator I don't remember who it was who
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talked about the relationship between Blake and Colleen, saying that Blake was always the cool
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girl at school. Someone that Colleen probably looked up to and could never hang around because
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she wasn't one of the cool girls at school. And I feel that's quite spot on here. How Colleen is
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letting herself be manipulated by Blake. And now finally, she can hang out with a cool girl that
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she couldn't hang out with in high school. So yeah, back to what Mary-Kate said. I agree with
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you i think as soon as blake and ryan were done with colleen they were like okay now we can just
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leave her out there until we need her next time now let's move on to the next people that we can
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love bomb and manipulate anyways as i mentioned in the beginning of this episode there's also
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other stuff going on in the world right now there is the can film festival it's just around the
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corner from me or kind of because i'm in spain and it is in france but this year has been a lot
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talk about all the Hollywood celebrities that are not showing up and this is quite interesting so
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it appears that a lot of the big American studios are afraid or worried to premiere the movies at
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Cannes Film Festival because if they flop if they don't get that 15 minute standing ovation
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and if people online starts talking it could really ruin the chances of the movie given a
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chance even at the award season as you know award season is supposed to start in like september
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it starts off with venice film festival and toronto film festival and then the whole fall
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it's all this campaigning going on for all these people and movies who wants to receive an oscar
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and can film festival is mainly seen more as a prestige film festival but now the big film
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studios are checking it out and basically that is because they know the power of social media
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Before, they used to invite only journalists to these events,
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and they had these press conferences, and everything was kind of controlled.
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But now, when you have influencers everywhere, people reporting online about things,
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they are worried that it's going to kill the movie before it even gets a chance.
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So this year, there are not a lot of movie stars present at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Interestingly enough, Jacob Elordi was invited to be a jury member.
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I've seen a lot of Demi Moore from the red carpet in Cannes.
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It seems like she's the only celebrity there somehow.
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with Kendall Jenner in Hawaii on the beach drinking rosé.
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Earlier this year, he was nominated for an Oscar
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for his performance in Frankenstein and he was all over the internet when he was promoting
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Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie but now he's followed his fellow Oscar nominee Timothy
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Chalamet's footsteps by starting to date a Jenner or Kardashian. So many people think this is not a
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good look for him to even be dating a Kardashian but I guess you can't really choose who you fall
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in love with and a lot of people have problems or issues with these girls but the fact that he
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didn't show up at Cannes as a jury member, which should be such an honor for you if you are in the
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industry, and instead went to Hawaii with Kendall Jenner. And as this article in the Daily Mail
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pointed out, his leg was not in a cast and he was even driving a car. So I don't know if he made up
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that thing about his foot, but it says here that karma will come fast. So I guess we have to see
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what excuse he can come up with for all of a sudden not having a broken foot anymore. Anyway,
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that's it for me you guys thank you so much for watching i really appreciate all your support and
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