LOSING IN HOLLYWOOD !! NYT Trashing Blake？ Taylor being Attacked !？
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively kiss in public in a soccer match, but is it enough evidence that their marriage is still going strong? Plus, a list of the 14 worst casting choices in movies, Taylor Swift, and more!
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The reason why she piled on Blake's hate towards Justin was just because she cares.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Jashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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Okay, so the New York Times did a list over the worst casting of movies.
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Also, fans are calling out Taylor Swift for her relentless scheming and plotting.
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And let's look at this old Ryan Reynolds movie where he plays a perv
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that gets turned on by minors and let's talk about Nice Pool the character that Ryan created
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to bully Justin Baldoni and how Disney is off the hook for now but could definitely be dragged back
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into this. Also everyone is talking about Timothee Chalamet and his tone-deaf comments about ballet
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and about the Oprah as a dying art form while he is out there promoting a movie about ping pong.
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This whole thing is so blown out of proportions right now.
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I'm not going to spend too much time on explaining what it is.
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But it's basically the Wayfair party is asking for a little more time to prepare for trial.
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While Blake Lively's party, don't think they need that.
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Anyways, there's another article I want to mention here first,
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So they did a story on Blake and Ryan kissing at the soccer match.
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And they're claiming here that this is proof that their marriage is still going strong.
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So it says Blake and Ryan's super rare outing shows where their marriage stands today.
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Once upon a time, Reynolds and Lively were everywhere, beloved from head to toe.
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However, amid their controversies in recent years, they've been keeping it extra low-key.
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and this low-key new vibe had people wondering if divorce was on the horizon.
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But these new photos show what's really going on with the pair.
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Obviously, the person who wrote this article has never heard about PR before.
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In photos obtained by Page Six, we see the couple passionately kissing
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while watching the Football Association Challenge Cup match between Wrexham and Chelsea.
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Before the major kiss moment, they were still packing on the PDA while Lively hugging him from behind throughout and Reynolds caressing her.
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And then she ends it with, so that effectively ended those divorce rumors amid Lively's ongoing legal battle with former it ends with a star Justin Baldoni, which Reynolds was also dragged into for allegedly verbally abusing Baldoni.
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Their marriage is going strong, according to this article, because they've kissed in public.
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I mean, how many times have we seen similar things?
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I think the latest couple who did something similar was Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
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Everyone was like, oh, look, they're out, they're holding hands and everything's fine.
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And then the next day it's like we're getting a divorce.
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It's called crisis PR and I don't think their marriage is going strong by any means.
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But anyways, let's talk about this funny story that the New York Times did today or yesterday about the 14 worst movie castings.
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They did a list of everyone that they thought were wrong for the different roles in movies.
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And number one on the list is Blake Lively for The Town.
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I think she played in like two movies that were decent and one of them was The Town and the other one was Savages.
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and here they're saying that she was completely wrong for this part
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Unfortunately, it's never the same thing twice.
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She's stiff as a bored one minute, clingy the next
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It's funny how this is actually from the New York Times, who, as you know, wrote that his hit piece on Justin Baldoni on behalf of Blake Lively.
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Anyway, so not everyone at New York Times is a big fan of Blake.
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Also, I just wanted to quickly mention this filing that was I think it was yesterday.
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It's a new filing where their lawyers are basically asking the judge to push back some upcoming deadlines before the trial.
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Both sides agree to a small delay, about a week,
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but Wayfair parties now want something a bit different.
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They're asking the judge to wait until he rules on the big motions in the case first.
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As you know, Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair parties have filed motions
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And of course, if he throws out 10 of those claims,
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and it's only three left, it does affect the way that they prepare for trial.
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So the Wayfair parties want to push for these pre-trial filings,
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which is basically what they're going to use in court against Blake
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so that the judge knows what evidence and exhibits they're going to bring into the trial.
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I mean, that makes so much sense to me that they want to wait to see what claims are actually left.
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So they're going to have to do all this extra work in case the judge tosses out a lot from Blake Lively's lawsuit.
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But of course, Blake Lively's lawyers don't want this because they just want to punish the wayfair parties as much as possible.
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And we still don't know when he's planning to rule on all these motions from Justin Baldoni's team.
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It could happen tomorrow. It could happen in a week, two weeks, a month's time.
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So we'll see if he's going to rule on this before he actually rules on that.
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But I guess this is just like lawyers arguing and it doesn't really affect anything except that, of course, that they have to do a lot of extra work.
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No matter what, it's going to be really interesting to see what survives from Blake Lively's claims.
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Is he going to toss out most of her SH claims or is he going to toss out most of her retaliation claims?
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Anyways, let's talk about Timothee Chalamet that everyone else is talking about right now.
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to timothy chalamet if you missed this i will share this little clip with you from his conversation
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with matthew mcconaughey they were sitting in front of a live audience interviewing each other
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having conversations about movies it's it's obviously a part of timothy chalamet's oscar
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campaign he's been extremely aggressive in his campaigning to win an oscar this year for marty
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supreme anyways this is what he said to matthew admire people and i've done it myself to go on
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of talk show go hey we got to keep movie theaters alive you know we got to keep this genre alive
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and I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or you know things where it's like hey keep this
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thing alive even though it's like no one cares about this anymore all respect to the ballet and
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opera people out there I just lost 14 cents in viewership okay so he was basically dissing
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opera and ballet what's really interesting about that is that he comes from a family of ballet
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dancers and as many people pointed out he is out there promoting a movie about ping pong while
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trashing ballet and opera so many people piled onto this calling him out for being so tone deaf
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and for trashing an art form just because he is not a part of that art form he's trashing another
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art form some people are laughing about it some opera houses or directors have invited him to the
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opera or to the ballet to tell him you need to be educated a little bit more talk shows have
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trashed him his instagram is just full of comments they're saying like this is oprah and ballet being
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struggling arts meanwhile makes a movie about ping pong another one says hope hope timmy loses
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the oscar to michael b jordan button and then 53 248 people like that and another one says
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another one who thinks fame and art are the same thing so now there's a lot of push for michael b
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Jordan to win the Oscar and not Timothee Chalamet. Michael B. Jordan won the actor award the SAG-AFTRA
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actor award and then Timothee Chalamet won the Critics Choice Award and the BAFTA award for
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best actor went to Robert Aramayo. So it's really hard to predict this year who the Oscar will go
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to for male actor. I think Timothee Chalamet should win the award for campaigning most aggressively
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but this whole thing to me looks a little bit like one of these Oscar smear campaigns and we've seen
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them before it happened to Carla Sofia Gascon a few years ago she was in the running for best
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actress for the movie Emilia Perez and then someone digged up some old tweets and her Oscar
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chances just died instantly she didn't show up at award shows they didn't want her there the cast
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didn't talk about her they didn't thank her and she was basically the main character of this movie
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and there was so much rave about this movie beforehand but because of those hostile tweets
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she had no chance she actually reached out to timothy with this instagram post i kind of find
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this whole thing a little amusing because i mean he didn't say anything seriously to hurt someone
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The only person he hurt here was himself because it makes him look stupid, but he didn't hurt anyone on purpose.
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So Carla posted this photo of it looks like she's talking to Timothy on the phone and he's saying,
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Hola Carla, do you think they're going to make me pass the red carpet at the Oscars?
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then don't worry about it tim she's still bitter obviously and she's blaming it on being a trans
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woman which i think had nothing to do which i don't think had anything to do with the reaction
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around those tweets that she was a trans but she's using that now she still wants to be a victim
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and she adds besides i love ballet slippers and i've seen the phantom of the oprah 10 times not
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sure if that counts for anything best of luck with the awards she says well thankfully for timothy
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Chalamet, the Oscar Academy had to vote before this interview was actually published. So they
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were unaware of these tone deaf comments. But on top of that, it doesn't really help him that he's
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dating a Kardashian if he wants to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, a lot of people look
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at it like that and say, hey, you're dating one of them. That means you're one of them and we don't
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respect you. She's a reality star. She'll do anything for fame. And it seems like Timothee
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Chalamet's ego has gotten a little too big for him. One thing is to be confident which I think
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is attractive in a person but when you show ignorance that just makes you arrogant and that
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is not a good thing and people don't like arrogant people especially the academy don't like it if
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you're too full of yourself and I definitely think that is going to hurt his chances this Sunday of
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winning that award. I remember the first time I met Timothy at a party. It was like a pre-Golden
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Globes party and he was there with a friend of mine because he used to date his daughter. And
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he introduced me and he said, hey, this is Timmy. He's going to be huge. He's going to star in this
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movie called Call Me By Your Name and remember his face. He's going to be famous, blah, blah,
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blah. And I remember speaking to him for like two minutes and he was just this young boy,
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very humbled and very like big eyes of being at this party. It's so funny to think about that now
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and look at who he has become and see how fame can change you. I hope that Timothee Chalamet
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will be a little humbled by this experience. I've never interviewed him myself, but I've seen
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interviews with him and he's not very cooperative. Let's put it that way. I remember Magnus interviewed
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him and he said, oh my God, it was horrible. He was just sitting there being so pretentious
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because there's always someone else in line to take his spot.
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Also, there's been controversies around the director of Marty Supreme,
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Josh Safdie, who used a 17-year-old girl in his movie Good Time.
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And that girl, I don't think she was even an actress.
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and there were claims about a toxic work environment there
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and that ended up with a professional split between him and his brother
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I feel that there might be some people pushing for this movie to fail.
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I watched it myself and I was like, okay, it's entertaining.
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But it didn't give me like, oh, wow, this is an Oscar movie for sure.
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But anyways, good luck to Timothy on Sunday at the Oscars.
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Okay, so first of all, thank you, Lainey, for sending me this clip from Ryan Reynolds' movie
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from 2005. It's called Waiting. And when you look at this now, I mean, things were different back
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then, but they weren't that different. And the lines that Ryan are saying in this movie are just
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like outrageous. How's my favorite minor doing today? Hungover. I'm only a minor for another
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week i turn 18 on wednesday well then i guess i better hurry up i am indeed a pervert yeah he's
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just saying hi emily how's my favorite minor of this week and she's saying i'm only a minor for
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another week and then he says i better hurry up them i am a pervert yeah that's pretty disgusting
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yeah i just think about how blake lively complained about justin baldoni directing
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two minors in it ends with us making love while she's been doing it so many times on gossip girl
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obviously she was playing a 16 year old there and the fact that the actors at it ends with us
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especially i think isabella ferrer was like 25 26 when they did that shoot so it's like come on
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and her husband did this in another movie or he said that in another movie yeah anyways ryan knows
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and he's talking about his marketing company, Maximum Effort.
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where everyone feels like you're being provocative,
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but nobody feels vilified, attacked, or nullified.
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Let's filter everything we do through a prism of joy,
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I mean, division is very viral, but it's not our bag, and it's boring.
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Just think about what he did with Justin Baldoni in Deadpool,
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mocking him in a Disney movie, and that is not cynicism to him.
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also remember that commercial he did with astronomer where this woman who was caught
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on the kiss cam at the Coldplay concert where she was called out by the world for doing that
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because she turned out she was married and her boss was married whatever a long story I'm sure
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you remember that and then Ryan Reynolds did an ad to mock it which she was so hurt by she said in
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an interview afterwards that she was especially hurt by Gwyneth Paltrow doing that ad so for Ryan
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to say that we like to be provocative but nobody feels vilified attacked or nullified no anyways
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talking about Deadpool a nice pull there is a scene that was actually deleted that I hadn't seen
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before I'd be fighting alongside them but my calling is to one day host a podcast that monetizes
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the women's movement hey cowboy I mean come on guys that's not even subtle yeah Ryan is saying
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I've been fighting alongside you, but my calling is to one day start a podcast that monetizes the
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women's movements. That was removed from the movie. I wonder if Disney put their foot down
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and said, you know, enough is enough. Stop mocking Justin Baldoni in this movie. This movie should be
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about Deadpool and not just bullying another man you don't like. Anyways, I'm so upset that we
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didn't get to see all the notes surrounding the Deadpool movie because last year Justin Baldoni
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filed a subpoena against Disney and said that we want to have access to all the communications
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surrounding this movie and the nice poor character and Disney fought that subpoena and by the time
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the judge responded to that he had already dismissed the lawsuit against Ryan and then he
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said okay this doesn't matter anymore so that was kind of dropped by default but when Justin
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Baldoni is filing his appeal they're definitely going to bring Disney back into this because this
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is a big part of his lawsuit against Ryan that he bullied him throughout this movie. As you might
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remember, Brian Friedman, Justin Baldoni's attorney, came out last year and talked about this
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and said, you know, how could Ryan Reynolds mock Justin Baldoni in the Deadpool movie while he's
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supposed to be traumatized of what happened to his wife? That's not the way a normal person react.
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You want to protect your wife. You're not just mocking and making fun of the situation. So Ryan
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reacted to this saying that claimed that Baldoni's thin-skinned outrage over a movie character
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that satirically woke nice pool does not even pretend to be tied to any actual legal claims.
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Instead, it falls into the general allegation of hurt feelings, which in reality is nothing more
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than a desperate effort to advance the same curated bully image that Baldoni created and
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disseminated in the retaliation campaign they launched against Miss Lively in August of 2024.
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So if you react to being bullied in a movie that's released worldwide, you are just like
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thin-skinned according to Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, that whole thing was so outrageous. I remember
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when we first talked about it, I was like, really? Is he really that petty that he would
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mock someone spent time creating a character just to be mean to another person but obviously that's
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what he did he never denied it and then it says here that being ryan admitted that the nice book
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character in deadpool was based on justin he not only dragged hugh jackman into the forefront and
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the directors and producers of the film but also disney the insider continued so yes if they win
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the appeal on this lawsuit we are definitely going to see more from Hugh Jackman as well
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and the conversations that Ryan Reynolds had with Hugh Jackman and the conversations he had with
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Disney and Disney is not going to be happy about that. So as you know Taylor Swift has also been
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dragged into this by Blake Lively and she's not happy about it and the fact that we've seen these
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text messages now that puts Taylor in a bad light. That makes people dig up some of her old stuff as
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well and some of her old actions. And Daily Mail just did this story saying Taylor Swift's sleuths
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exposed her relentless scheming and plotting. Fans revolt as Singer and Travis Kelsey desperately
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try to contain the fallout. And it says here that a recent poll conducted by YouGov showed that
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Swift's popularity has decreased over the past year.
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In 2024, her approval rating was 54%, but it has dropped to 46.7%.
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It says the turning point for many people was in 2021,
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when she had the feud with Olivia Rodrigo over songwriting credits
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when her ex-boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, was trolled following the release of her album,
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And she dropped two special editions of The Tortured Poet
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the same day Billie Eilish released her album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, in May of 2024.
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Some took it as a calculated move to retain her place at the top of the charts.
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And it says here, there was a similar story across the pond,
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the following month when charlie xcx looked set to claim a uk number one for her seminal album
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brats but when swift announced the release of six deluxe reissues of tortures departments
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available only in the uk charlie xcx was forced to accept the number two spots now fans are convinced
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It says here that she dropped that music video,
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Apple Light, on Apple Music and Spotify on February 6th
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the same day Bad Bunny performed at the Super Bowl.
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claim that she had abundance of dates to release it
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instead having shot the video in London back in November.
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I think that's a little far-fetched, but anyways.
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and knows that chart battles are great for the industry
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but far from hostile she loves bad bunny well if all of this is true she is actually working
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really hard to take the spotlight away from others which i think is kind of hostile the
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insider also added here that competition with others should see be seen as taylor's way of
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showing that she respects them she wouldn't bother if she didn't think they were doing something
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substantial they added okay so she's not gonna come after you if she doesn't care about you so
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that just means she cares about you someone should tell justin baloney that that the reason why she
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piled on blake's hate towards justin was just because she cares they also complaining here
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that she hasn't refrained from reacting to the use of music from her the the life of a showgirl
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in several social media posts from the Trump administration,
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a somewhat odd move for a star who has previously sued
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who advised her against getting involved in political matters
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because she felt compelled to be on the right side of history.
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And they're mentioning a lawsuit that she was just involved in
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when she sued someone for using the trademark SWIFT home.
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Her management company issued a notice on February 11 claiming the logo design is similar to Swift's trademark cursive signature and that it creates a false association to the singer that could lead customers to believe Swift had endorsed the product.
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And this company withdrew the application five days later.
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At the end of this article, they do mention the feud, of course, that she has with Blake
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and the text messages, of course, between her and Blake that has become public.
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And they're ending it here with a quote about Taylor and Travis and what they're focusing
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on right now, which is they're trying to stay away from major decisions and aren't looking
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The insider added, sure, they are aware of it and its nuance, but the move now is not
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to add any fuel to the fire yeah i think that's the move from every person who's dragged into any
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controversy don't add fuel to the fire anyways that's it for me today you guys i really hope
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