00:00:00.000Because what Blake has achieved once more is to remind everyone why she's not popular anymore.
00:00:12.360Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk. I'm Jashti Flor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice
00:00:17.200of reason in a town built of delusion. Okay, as you know yesterday there was a pre-trial conference
00:00:22.820in New York where both sides met to discuss what experts to allow to trial and also Blake
00:00:29.980Lively's damages. Now the press has picked up on this and the headlines are so funny because what
00:00:37.000Blake has achieved once more is to remind everyone why she's not popular anymore. Because at this
00:00:45.080pre-try conference Baldoni's team brought up that Blake Lively had bullied Princess Catherine as
00:00:52.560well as how she's never been successful in any of her businesses. So now while she's fighting to get
00:00:58.840her reputation back, people are just reminded of why she lost it. It actually gets worse. By the
00:01:06.260way, one of our experts has calculated that she would have a 600% increase in earnings the next
00:01:14.160few years. Yes, that's true. Another of our experts, as I mentioned the other day, calculated that it
00:01:19.960would cost Blake between 14 to 20 million dollars to get her reputation back. While at this time,
00:01:27.300so far in this trial she spent 50 million dollars on getting her reputation back. I mean they need
00:01:34.240to get their maths in order here because this does not add up. Also Ryan Reynolds was in LA this week
00:01:40.980he was actually a few blocks from where I live I didn't know about that. Of course he could not
00:01:45.780resist an opportunity to get some attention and some validation he was here to promote the
00:01:51.200documentary series Rexham with his other girlfriend Rob Mack. It's funny when you look at Ryan Reynolds
00:01:57.620Instagram now it's only pictures of him and Rob and him and Hugh Jackman and nothing about Blake
00:02:03.440but anyways there was a reporter from Entertainment Tonight who actually went there. I know from my
00:02:09.820sources in the industry that they were not allowed to ask him about this legal feud but one reporter
00:02:15.220pushed the button and what he got was priceless. Yeah and Daily Mail picked up on this saying that
00:02:21.140Ryan Reynolds leaves wife Blake Lively at home as he makes rare red carpet appearance ahead of
00:02:26.120Justin Baldoni trial. Yeah he can't escape this now although he's trying really really hard. Let's
00:02:31.940also look at something really interesting from Colleen Hoover's deposition because as you know
00:02:36.820yesterday at this pre-trial conference they talked about how Blake Lively is losing money from the
00:02:43.460opportunity of starring in It Starts With Us without ever having been offered that role and
00:02:48.660now it's clear to me that Justin also made sure that there will never be a sequel to this movie.
00:02:54.680So let's see how mad Colleen Hoover actually got when she realized that Justin had written0.99
00:03:00.180Ryle out of Lily's life. He didn't want people to walk away from theaters thinking that you could
00:03:06.720still be in a co-parenting relationship with an abusive ex. Yeah, so let's get into it. It's so
00:03:12.880much juice here, you guys. As I said, there were a bunch of interesting headlines today picking up
00:03:17.620what happened in court yesterday. One of them from New York Post saying Justin Baldoni's lawyer
00:03:22.100deny actor cost bully Blake Lively's downfall in pretrial hearing. And they also mentioned the
00:03:28.920incident where Blake bullied Princess Catherine. All of these stories that Blake claim that Justin
00:03:35.660Baldoni brought back to life to smear her in 2024, she is bringing back to life like never before
00:03:43.620through this lawsuit. Anyways, let's look at this article in Daily Mail. Ryan Reynolds leaves wife
00:03:50.060Blake Lively at home as he makes rare red carpet appearance with just ahead of Justin Bologna's
00:03:56.420trial. I mean, everything that he does right now, of course, people are going to tie it to this
00:04:01.440trial. Otherwise, you're not really doing your job as a journalist, if you ask me. It says here that
00:04:06.220Ryan made a solo appearance at a special FYC event for his sports documentary series, Welcome to
00:04:11.920wrecks him. In Los Angeles on Tuesday, the Deadpool actor attended the event without his
00:04:17.500wife, Blake Lively, who's going up for a courtroom battle, blah, blah, blah. Reynolds and Lively are
00:04:22.580reportedly considering fleeing America in a bid to escape the ongoing backlash against them amid
00:04:28.800the fallout from the legal drama. This is not a great piece for either of them. Here, it's not
00:04:35.160like they're deciding to start another life. It's like they're fleeing America, but then they continue
00:04:40.640like this. But at Tuesday's event, the actor looked in good spirits and went for a casual look
00:04:46.560wearing an orange and white striped sweater paired with a white tee and beige jeans.
00:04:53.760I love reading up these descriptions of what people are wearing because everyone who can
00:04:59.060actually read can also see on a picture what someone's wearing. Anyways, I just think that's
00:05:03.340so funny. And they continue the actor whose fiery text messages. Yes, we all get reminded of those
00:05:09.340text messages that ryan sent to wme his agency his agents at wme and also what he sent to sony
00:05:17.780and other people in the industry by the way we're unsealed amid lively's legal war kept
00:05:23.500comfortable in a pair of white sneakers there we go he had white sneakers on you guys
00:05:27.820i'm so grateful for losing not just in rexman other areas of my life too because you you
00:05:34.420how does it feel good when you have a win or a moment something where you you worked hard
00:05:38.960And then they also mention how Blake has a track record of flopping projects such as her drink brand Betty Buzz due to her unpopularity rather than an smear campaign.
00:05:51.260Here comes the interesting part that her expert claimed yesterday in this conference.0.77
00:05:57.820He actually said that Blake would have a 600% increase in her earnings.
00:06:03.560So for the last four projects, she made $21 million, and he calculated that she would make $142 million within the next few years.
00:06:14.940I mean, seriously, who has a 600% increase?
00:06:18.860Especially as he's mentioning, or Baldoni's team is mentioning, especially with her track record.
00:11:26.720So yesterday, as you know, in court, her team argued that Blake lost approximately $35 million on this Never Made sequel that she thought that she would be a part of.
00:11:44.520So for Blake to say that she lost income, and then she added to that, by the way, as I also showed yesterday, that Justin Baldoni wanted her to direct.
00:11:52.420And as I showed yesterday, in an interview, Justin said, someone else should make the second movie.
00:11:59.220I think Blake Lively is ready to direct. That's what I think.
00:12:01.980That doesn't mean he said, I think Blake should direct that movie.
00:12:06.140He said, I think Blake is ready to direct, which I think was a sarcastic comment
00:12:11.620that, of course, the reporter didn't understand because she wasn't there
00:12:14.940when Blake took over the entire movie and basically directed it.
00:12:18.080But anyways, let's get into what Colin Hoover says about the ending of It Ends With Us.
00:12:23.880Because in her book, the ending was different than what Justin actually did.
00:12:29.500So Justin did an interview with The Wrap, the magazine,
00:12:33.020where he talked about why he chose a different ending for Ryle and Lily,
00:12:48.080It was written in a way that showed that they're overcome a lot over the last two years,
00:12:52.940and I wasn't fully comfortable with it.
00:12:55.440And no more, the organization that they collaborated with,
00:12:59.380anti-DV organization, wasn't fully comfortable with it.
00:13:03.240And we were trying to find a way to make it work, to honor the book,
00:13:07.200but too much had to be done in such a short window to explain
00:13:10.500how they could possibly be co-parenting.
00:13:12.880And then he said, I don't want to open up a can of worms and have a conversation about,
00:13:16.640you know, should a man like Ryle be allowed to co-parent, you know, what's an acceptable amount
00:13:22.860of work that someone has to do in that situation? It was just too much. And he added, the truth is
00:13:29.500from our research and from our partners, we know that the majority of men go back to being abusers
00:13:35.560and that's the fact. And then I didn't, and then it didn't feel right to tell a story about a man
00:13:41.980who was a minority in that because that wouldn't be honoring the original intention of why we were
00:13:47.600trying to tell her story and then he explains why he ended the movie like he did which is basically
00:13:53.380that he wrote Ryle out of Lily's life for good which obviously is the best scenario for Lily
00:14:00.420but Colleen Hoover was not happy about that so she thinks from her deposition here which I'm
00:14:08.280going to read from. She believes that Justin did this ending and bragged about this ending to harm
00:14:15.760her and the rest of the cast as a smear campaign against them. By the way, there's a lot of talk
00:14:21.860in this deposition about why she liked Blake Lively's cut more than Justin's and she mentioned
00:14:28.340because of the humor in it. That was important to Mr. Cess. I mean, humor in a movie like that,
00:14:34.660that was important to Colleen Hoover. As you know Ryan Reynolds humor is all over the script. I went
00:14:39.760through the script notes a couple of times here on my channel and I pointed out those Ryan Reynolds
00:14:45.180jokes that didn't make it into the movie. Some of them did but Sony flagged a lot of them saying
00:14:51.480that this is not okay. This is not the movie we're making but obviously Colleen Hoover loved that. A
00:14:57.640little Deadpool humor in a movie about DV. So here the attorney is asking Colleen Hoover about an
00:15:03.660Instagram post that the Wayfair studio posted referring to the interview I just read from from
00:15:08.980the rap where Justin is talking about why he changed the ending and Colleen Hoover is referring
00:15:13.660to this saying that Justin did an article about how in the in the script and in the movie he had
00:15:19.320Lily leave Ryle and Ryle did not get custody and did not was no longer in their lives and it upset
00:15:26.360me because the online narrative at the time was very much against the females in the movie or not
00:15:32.880that, that were involved in the movie. Blake and I, Isabella, were getting a lot of online hate0.53
00:15:38.860and I felt like Justin was posting this and all the comments on it were about how great he is
00:15:44.380for talking about DV and all this stuff while we were silent about it. And then this article in
00:15:51.720particular was very damaging for me because it made it look like I should have, you know,
00:15:57.240not that I should have written the ending differently, but that he chose to change the
00:16:01.360ending but I knew that wasn't true because after I'd written book two we had many conversations
00:16:06.540about a potential second movie and in order for there to be a second movie he would still be part
00:16:11.880of Lily and child's and the child's life and so I felt like this article in this interview he did
00:16:17.340was he did it to try to make himself look like he was aligned with what people were saying negatively
00:16:23.120about us and not actually speaking the truth in it like as Justin was pointing out men like this
00:16:30.400rarely change. So to have him in her life would be a huge mistake. But Colleen still wanted that
00:16:37.700because she didn't really care about how real victims felt about this. She only cared about
00:16:42.460how popular she was herself on Instagram. So she says here that she asked Justin or Jamie if they
00:16:48.520could take down that post on Instagram. And then the attorney is asking, and what was it that made
00:16:53.440you feel that Mr. Baldoni was sharing an article for the purpose of affecting the conversation?
00:16:57.880And she says, I felt like at this point in time, the movie had released, it was doing really well, but stuff just suddenly started popping up online negatively about Blake and me and the way we marketed the movie.
00:17:12.500And I think the most shocking thing was how silent Justin was about the online abuse the women in the movie were getting.
00:17:20.440So she thought after Blake took over the entire movie and she helped her with that and they both unfollowed him on social media.
00:17:27.440So she was expecting him to come out publicly and say that, you know, these women are just amazing and you should support them, although they seem really tone deaf in this promotion.
00:17:40.460And she says, and this was to me, went against everything we would preach about supporting women.
00:17:45.860And I felt very much disappointed that the people who made this film were staying silent when especially Blake was getting so much online hate.
00:17:53.160And a lot of it was about the flowers and her wearing flower jeans.
00:17:57.440I mean, the same thing that Isabella also said, that it was Justin's, that Justin should support
00:18:03.320all women, no matter what they do, what they say, how they behave. It is his job as a man to support
00:18:09.780them no matter what. And she's saying here, Justin and I met bouquets. And you know, like this was
00:18:15.380his movie. And I'm sure he approved the marketing plan and what we went along with. And so I was
00:18:21.620confused why the things we were being willified for were not being defended. As you know it wasn't
00:18:28.060Justin's idea to promote the movie like that it was Blake Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds because
00:18:33.240his company Maximum Effort was responsible for the marketing of the movie and they made a marketing
00:18:38.640plan with Sony and Justin did his own marketing plan because he didn't agree with the way that
00:18:44.500they were promoting this movie as grab your friends wear your florals and go and watch this
00:18:48.860movie here colleen says it would have been nice if if justin or sony or jamie you know like shared0.95
00:18:54.940the marketing plan and like literally like i showed up and did all of my pr and worked my ass
00:19:00.800off excuse me and i i felt like oh and why when i say that i mean about the pr and i i read a
00:19:07.640teleprompter a lot of times i did exactly what i was told to do but then afterwards you know a lot
00:19:13.460of the stuff we talked about in interviews we did at the press junket a lot of things about dv
00:19:18.100like they were just not shared anywhere so here she's saying that they actually did talk about
00:19:23.520this subject but it wasn't shared anywhere I mean I think it was up to her to share things on her
00:19:29.540own Instagram because basically social media is where they shared all their PR most of it
00:19:35.760about this movie and her and Blake has a huge following can you imagine what they could do
00:19:41.040Blake with her 41 million followers which I think is more like 4 million followers and Ryan with his
00:19:47.50050 million and colleen i don't know if she has two million followers or whatever the power they
00:19:53.700have with that amount of followers what they could actually do themselves if they saw that oh this is
00:19:59.700not working we're getting backlash well then you just have to change your approach yeah it's
00:20:05.020interesting how they all planned to blame justin for everything that went wrong for them and i think
00:20:10.920also justin wrote ryle out of this movie because he was like this is the end of ryle this is the
00:20:16.220end of me being a part of this maybe it was like some kind of therapy for him as well to get this
00:20:21.880character out of his life and never revisit him because imagine the trauma this whole experience
00:20:28.740has been for him and his family and for Jamie Heath and his family I mean yeah anyways I had
00:20:35.940a few people asking me to watch Zach Galifianakis a Netflix series about gardening I love Zach by
00:20:42.760the way I've interviewed him a few times he's the only actually I have to say he's the most
00:20:46.940honest Hollywood star out there if you haven't watched my interview with him you should he is
00:20:52.220trashing Hollywood saying everyone is just bragging about themselves it's so fake and and you know
00:20:58.320saying all those things that most decent people in this town think but they don't dare to say it
00:21:03.500but anyways I don't know if he is doing this to shade Ryan Reynolds in his gardening show and I've
00:21:09.420only watched a couple of episodes but as some of the people who sent me this mentioned that he's
00:21:13.280actually mentioning Ryan Reynolds in several episodes so here's a little snippet of what
00:21:18.100he said in the episode I watched. Do you know who Ryan Reynolds is? Nobody does. Yeah nobody knows.
00:21:27.200Who knows? Maybe nobody will know who he is in a few years after they flee to the UK to start their
00:21:33.680new lives over there. Anyways that's it from you guys. Thank you so much for watching and thanks
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