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00:00:00.000 where they're saying that the actress fall from grace

00:00:02.760 is one of the biggest in Hollywood history.

00:00:11.220 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.

00:00:13.140 I'm Tashty Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller

00:00:15.700 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:20.500 Yeah, it seems that Ryan Reynolds has more enemies in Hollywood

00:00:24.280 than I initially thought.

00:00:26.280 What really happened with Gerard Butler

00:00:29.160 And how did Ryan Reynolds react to the shade that he received from the Scottish actor?

00:00:35.140 And how does this all relate to Ryan's latest project, Mayday?

00:00:39.460 Also, it all makes sense when you look at this old interview with Ryan,

00:00:43.460 where he explains what really drives him.

00:00:47.600 This is disturbing.

00:00:48.920 Also, the British newspaper The Sun made a short documentary about Lake Lively,

00:00:54.040 where they're saying that the actress fall from grace

00:00:56.840 is one of the biggest in Hollywood history.

00:01:01.100 And we have to talk about Ariana Grande.

00:01:03.360 I'm sure you've seen that video as well 0.99

00:01:05.380 or screenshots from it showing an extremely unhealthy person.

00:01:10.480 And when people are reacting to it saying that she needs help,

00:01:13.620 it's viewed as body shaming and criticism.

00:01:17.140 Let's talk about that and who has the responsibility here?

00:01:20.560 And should we as a public value the health of a celebrity or the health of her million fans?

00:01:28.160 Anyways, let's get into it.

00:01:29.680 So, as I just mentioned, there was some kind of feud going on between Ryan Reynolds and Gerard Butler.

00:01:38.260 The two of them has never worked together.

00:01:41.200 I've interviewed Gerard Butler a few times.

00:01:43.580 I really like him.

00:01:44.660 He also used to be my neighbor in West Hollywood.

00:01:47.460 and I got the impression from him that he's a really laid-back guy who doesn't take any BS.

00:01:54.180 Anyways, so this goes back to 2021. Thank you, Marlo, for sending me this, by the way. So it's

00:02:00.420 interesting to see the parallels here because I mentioned yesterday in my episode that Blake

00:02:06.460 Lively is supposed to do this movie called The Survivalist and there was a very similar movie

00:02:11.240 with a similar plot, a different genre though, but a similar plot that was just released in

00:02:16.880 January of this year. And as I said yesterday, the producer of Blake's movie has just kind of

00:02:21.900 vanished. So I doubt that that movie is ever going to happen. But anyways, this is quite interesting

00:02:27.460 because back in 2021, Ryan Reynolds released a movie called Free Guy. And the movie had a lot

00:02:34.640 of similarities to a movie that Gerard Butler did back in 2009. In Gamer, which was the name of

00:02:43.180 Gerard Butler's movie, he plays a death row inmate who participates in an online game in which

00:02:48.880 outsiders can control the players. And it's the same concept as in Free Guy, where Ryan Reynolds

00:02:56.480 plays a bank teller who soon discovers that he's actually a non-player character in an open world

00:03:03.380 video game. And when Butler was asked back then, this was in 2021, what he thought about the

00:03:11.120 similarities with free guy butler reacted like this he said i actually don't know what free guy

00:03:18.440 is and then the actress who was sitting next to gerard butler in this interview it was printed

00:03:24.400 in unilad alexis louder informed butler that it was the ryan reynolds latest movie and then gerard

00:03:31.820 said oh shit is it i don't watch ryan reynolds movies then that made headlines people magazine 0.71

00:03:38.580 did a story about how Gerard Butler doesn't watch Ryan Reynolds movies. There were no explanations 0.99

00:03:45.320 from Gerard Butler why he doesn't watch his movies but it was just like oh shit is it I don't watch 0.98

00:03:51.600 Ryan Reynolds movies. Very clear to me that he doesn't care about Ryan Reynolds. I looked into 0.97

00:03:56.840 the two of them they'd never been in a movie together so I don't know exactly what the fallout

00:04:00.960 is or if he's heard from other people who have been treated badly by Ryan and that is why he

00:04:07.520 refuse to watch any Ryan Reynolds movies. Anyways, when this got to Ryan, he reacted to it the way

00:04:15.560 that only Ryan Reynolds could do. So he was pretending in a tweet that he didn't care at all

00:04:25.060 and he took the opportunity to make people aware that Blake and him are supporting charities. He

00:04:31.760 said, can you believe Gerard Butler doesn't know what free guy is? Also, can you believe that the

00:04:37.800 challenge to democracy have never been greater and that Blake and I will match your contributions

00:04:42.860 to the ACLU nationwide and NWACP, LDF, order of these questions optimized for the internet,

00:04:53.600 not importance. Obviously trying to make it look like Blake and I, we care about real issues instead

00:05:00.800 of shading other people, while Gerard Butler had to come out and shade me for really no reason.

00:05:07.500 Very passive-aggressive and very Ryan Reynolds. Of course, People Magazine picked this up,

00:05:14.260 saying that Ryan Reynolds' response to Gerard Butler's saying he doesn't watch Ryan Reynolds'

00:05:19.820 movies. Can you believe it? So, of course, by shading Gerard Butler back, he also took the

00:05:27.160 opportunity to promote him and Blake Lively as good human beings. I mean, you can't make this

00:05:34.420 stuff up. Okay, so now let's go back to Mayday. Ryan Reynolds' next movie coming out now in

00:05:40.560 September. He made that movie for Apple TV. I've spoken about this movie a couple of times already

00:05:45.440 and it's really interesting how Ryan hasn't really mentioned this movie other than a clip

00:05:51.180 from the trailer on his Instagram story no big like trailer release on his Instagram grid nothing

00:06:00.100 and when Apple pushed this on their own Instagram they didn't even tag Ryan Reynolds in it anyways

00:06:06.000 how funny is it that Gerard Butler also did a movie called Mayday in 2023 just three years ago

00:06:14.620 So according to IMD, Gerard Butler's movie Mayday is where a pilot finds himself trapped

00:06:21.100 in a war zone after being forced to land his commercial plane during a terrible storm.

00:06:27.060 In Ryan Reynolds' Mayday, Lieutenant Troy Brennan's mission over Soviet territory goes

00:06:32.340 wrong, facing him to land and survive in the Russian wilderness while avoiding both capture

00:06:38.020 and rescue.

00:06:39.720 Basically the same plot line there.

00:06:42.340 It's the second time Ryan Reynolds makes a movie with the same plots as a movie that

00:06:49.200 Gerard Butler already did.

00:06:50.980 I bet you Gerard Butler is not going to watch that movie.

00:06:54.460 So the question is, would Ryan Reynolds go to this length to shade Gerard Butler, that

00:07:00.640 he would develop a movie called exactly the same thing?

00:07:04.120 It's also called Mayday, and it has exactly the same plot as Butler's movie from 2023.

00:07:10.600 What do you think?

00:07:12.340 I mean, nothing surprises me anymore.

00:07:14.700 And if you watch this older interview with Ryan, it makes completely sense.

00:07:20.920 Let's talk about that and what's really going on with Ariana Grande and who has the responsibility to help her.

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00:09:34.600 Okay, so let's get back into it.

00:09:36.580 Thank you, Colleen, for sending me this old clip of Ryan Reynolds.

00:09:40.720 This is a very young Ryan Reynolds.

00:09:42.980 In an interview, I don't know which movie it was for,

00:09:46.400 but he was obviously asked about what drives him.

00:09:50.080 And now Oscar is leaving.

00:09:51.340 He's like, I can't deal with more Ryan Reynolds today.

00:09:54.720 So I'm guessing the question for Ryan here was, what drives you or whatever?

00:09:59.580 And he came with this answer.

00:10:02.080 The very first audition I ever had was this show came to town.

00:10:06.380 They're doing like a cattle call, which means anyone can go.

00:10:08.800 And they'd also called every school and said, give us your four best drama students.

00:10:13.280 And I didn't get picked.

00:10:14.800 And it just kind of bugged me.

00:10:16.460 I think it just kind of irked me that I wasn't chosen.

00:10:18.620 I didn't particularly have any aspirations to be an actor at that point.

00:10:21.220 And I just, I didn't like the fact that I wasn't selected as this part of this elite group that got to go audition for this TV show.

00:10:28.140 And it was an open casting call, so I just said, screw it.

00:10:30.040 And I went down and I ended up getting the role, you know.

00:10:33.460 So my career is built upon the sturdy foundation of spite.

00:10:38.000 Yes, he said that his career is built on a sturdy foundation of spite.

00:10:45.500 Do we need to know more?

00:10:47.560 Doesn't this make a lot of sense?

00:10:49.460 And he's not saying it in a funny, jokingly way.

00:10:53.380 He is being dead serious here, saying that, you know,

00:10:56.680 my career and my actions are built on sturdy spite.

00:11:00.300 So now we know.

00:11:02.400 It's funny how all the signs were there all the time.

00:11:05.300 And then we were all fooled to believe that Ryan Reynolds was this nice, funny guy.

00:11:09.960 The same with Blake Lively.

00:11:11.380 It's interesting.

00:11:12.640 The Sun Showbiz did this short documentary.

00:11:16.300 It's just like a 15-minute long video on YouTube.

00:11:19.460 But the angle of this story is how Blake Lively had one of the biggest fall from grace in

00:11:24.940 Hollywood history.

00:11:26.680 And they're talking about how she sold us this image that she was this nice and funny

00:11:31.260 girl and how all the things that have come out now contradicted that and how the public

00:11:37.140 turns on you if you build a brand that contradicts your real personality and your real values.

00:11:43.380 As this one person whose interview said that Blake was this fun, family-oriented person, 0.83

00:11:49.460 in front of the public and now we've seen that she's a very mean-spirited cruel person someone 1.00

00:11:58.200 that no one wants to work with and they're branding her the hollywood mean girl and explaining how she

00:12:04.040 went from being an a-lister to being a cautionary tale it's interesting how a lot of these celebrities

00:12:10.340 are selling the public an image that does not match who they really are at one point that image

00:12:17.800 is going to crack. And the further that image is from the real person, the bigger the fall. And

00:12:24.160 that's exactly what we've seen here. And I think that is why this is such a cautionary tale as well

00:12:29.460 for all other Hollywood stars in not trying to build an image that's not you, because you're

00:12:36.260 going to be exposed at one point. Anyways, let's talk about Ariana Grande. I've been following this 0.69

00:12:41.580 story on and off for the last week. I'm sure you've seen a lot of these images as well. So

00:12:47.420 she just released a new music video and she's in the middle of a big tour and people were shocked

00:12:53.840 when they saw how thin and frail she looks. She received a lot of reactions and some people call

00:13:00.780 it criticism, some people call it backlash and yesterday she reacted to this saying that she

00:13:07.800 is going to take some time off when she's done with this concert or when she's done with this

00:13:13.300 tour the eternal sunshine tour and also that she's dropping out of this theater play that she

00:13:19.600 was doing so yesterday ariana was back on stage in chicago and she denied that she was taking this

00:13:28.080 time off due to all the backlash in the media and on social media she said it's something that i

00:13:34.600 have decided a plan that i'd quietly made a long time ago and it is a decision that was made from

00:13:39.900 a thoughtful and empowered place. And I want you to know that many things can be true at the same

00:13:45.300 time. I want to share this because I heard that my fans were worried that negativity was ruining

00:13:51.000 things for me. But I just have to say that could not be more the effing opposite. I promise you

00:13:58.040 this is not what that is. I just want to be very, very clear. Multiple things can be true at the

00:14:03.560 same time yes boundaries can need to be set human beings can need a break sometimes a spokesperson 1.00

00:14:10.280 here told people magazine that grande would be taking a step back from visibility after she

00:14:17.060 completes the eternal sunshine store adding she looks forward to taking a much disturbed break 0.76

00:14:22.140 from public facing work and appearances which has led to endless ongoing public scrutiny

00:14:29.820 So here's my question. Are we not allowed to comment on a woman's body when it looks unhealthy? 0.89

00:14:38.600 Is that automatically body shaming? Lately, we've seen so many women look frail and too thin in 1.00

00:14:45.100 Hollywood. Everyone from Kelly Osbourne, Olivia Wilde, Demi Moore, Charlize Theron. And should we 1.00

00:14:52.160 not comment on this if it makes us worried? If we say nothing and millions of young girls are

00:14:59.320 watching Ariana Grande, thinking that this is normal, thinking that this is a person that I

00:15:06.880 look up to, and she says she's okay, so that means that she's okay. Who is more important here? Ariana

00:15:14.120 Grande and her health, or all the millions of young girls that she's influencing? To me, it's a really

00:15:20.700 interesting question. So where does compassion end, and where does responsibility start, and who's

00:15:26.860 responsible here. In my personal opinion, I believe that we have to talk about things that

00:15:32.360 are uncomfortable to talk about because otherwise nothing changes and things need to change. We've

00:15:38.880 seen the Osempic epidemic in Hollywood. We witnessed how so many celebrities are getting 1.00

00:15:45.940 thinner and thinner and thinner and these people are not good role models. And you have people like

00:15:52.820 Amy Schumer, she built an entire career on rejecting the beauty standards of Hollywood. 1.00

00:15:58.740 She was mocking herself. She was mocking her own body. She talked openly about not fitting into 1.00

00:16:05.420 that mold. And then all of a sudden she loses all this weight and she doesn't want anyone to even

00:16:10.340 remember what she used to look like. So she deletes her entire Instagram and starts over again

00:16:17.820 being the new thin Amy Schumer and I was just looking at her Instagram and she still has

00:16:24.880 limited comments on her Instagram because people criticized her for it saying hey why are you 0.69

00:16:30.920 deleting all the photos of yourself before you lost the weight she doesn't want anything to do

00:16:36.820 with the old Amy Schumer anymore and what kind of message does that send to young girls the more we

00:16:42.480 see of these images the more they show up in our instagram feed the more we click on them the more

00:16:48.700 they'll show up in the algorithm and the more of these images will be shown to young women who's

00:16:53.380 much more vulnerable and who's much more likely to compare themselves to this unattainable and

00:16:59.700 very very unhealthy role models the question is who's got the responsibility here is this the

00:17:05.080 responsibility of the celebrity some of these celebrities obviously have mental issues ariana

00:17:10.860 Grande came out earlier and commented on this and said that the picture that people are comparing me

00:17:17.100 to saying that I looked healthy in that is from a time in my life when I was very unhealthy and

00:17:23.980 she says that two things can be true at the same time that I can look very thin but I can also be

00:17:30.020 very healthy if you ask any nutritionist or any doctor and they look at her body they will all

00:17:36.960 agree i think a hundred percent sure that she does not have a healthy body so my theory to what 1.00

00:17:43.760 happened here is not that ariana grande got called out for being unhealthy it is that her enablers 0.99

00:17:52.460 got called out because people were like where are managers where are agents where's her family 0.96

00:17:58.300 where's her friends why is no one stopping this from happening she could collapse any minute on

00:18:05.860 that stage and who's responsible then why is no one stepping in here the hypocrisy of hollywood

00:18:12.520 and showbiz again is just remarkable how they love to lecture us about body positivity and then no one 1.00

00:18:20.300 steps in when something like this happened because obviously ariana granda is a money machine for so 0.98

00:18:26.140 many people i really hope that she gets all the help that she needs she doesn't understand that 1.00

00:18:32.820 people are actually trying to help her all that she can see here is scrutiny and criticism of her

00:18:39.740 own body because she obviously has a lot of issues with her own body let me know what you think who's

00:18:46.080 responsible here who should say something who should do something are we all responsible

00:18:51.840 are parents responsible for telling their young daughters that never look up to these people

00:18:58.480 they are not who they pretend to be and you should never compare yourself or put value into what

00:19:05.500 these people are trying to sell you anyways that's it for me today you guys i hope you enjoyed this

00:19:11.120 video thank you so much for watching i really appreciate all your support and again thanks to

00:19:16.280 oscar yeah i could never wish for a better executive producer anyways if you haven't subscribed yet

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00:19:31.640 the world to me and i'll see you all soon bye i used to read a lot of the viking sagas and it

00:19:38.500 was amazing these men would go and fight but when they came back they were terrified of their women

00:19:44.720 the women were the bosses that feeling i've heard that too yeah lately that the women were actually 0.99

00:19:49.560 really hardcore yeah and in iceland in iceland the women are bigger personalities than the guys

00:19:55.160 i've never been actually by the way i'm your neighbor what do you mean i think i looked

00:20:01.160 up to your garden which one because i wait oh oh and um where am i okay yes i know what you're up

00:20:11.600 to all the time

00:20:12.300 you have some good parties though i have to say yeah one day uh well you're invited come to the

00:20:23.600 next one.

00:20:23.900 I would love to.

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