Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Revealed Everything !!

00:00:00.000 Everyone takes his call.

00:00:08.480 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.

00:00:10.420 I'm Sashdee Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:13.380 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:17.500 Did Ryan Reynolds unintentionally just admit that he wrote those text messages

00:00:23.920 from his wife Blake Lively to Justin Baldoni?

00:00:27.220 And also let's look into his latest stunt, making sure that people know how powerful he really is or thinks he is.

00:00:36.380 And we have a response from the Wayfair parties to Stephanie Jones, the publicist who is suing everyone.

00:00:43.940 She is still convinced that she's a victim of the powerful Hollywood smear machine, but the Wayfair parties are shutting her down.

00:00:52.860 Let's get into all the details here.

00:00:55.340 I forgot to mention yesterday when I said that I watched Mayday, so you don't have to.

00:01:00.980 I forgot to mention that it's interesting that there are actually no female characters really in this movie.

00:01:07.980 There is a probably four minute scene with Maria Bakalova, but that is one single scene.

00:01:17.280 And there's a very short village scene where a woman is inviting Ryan and Kenneth Branagh into their house.

00:01:25.340 for dinner a completely pointless scene but anyways it's so interesting how ryan is portraying

00:01:31.680 himself as this poster boy for feminism now and his latest movie has close to zero women in it

00:01:38.520 it's funny how they put maria bakalova on the red carpet pretending that she's really a part of this

00:01:44.560 movie she's not she is in one scene as i said just a little fun fact there anyways thanks to mateo

00:01:52.500 for sending me this article in The Hollywood Reporter.

00:01:55.260 At first glance, I was like,

00:01:56.900 okay, another suck-up article about Ryan Reynolds. 0.78

00:02:01.380 And it is.

00:02:02.460 But there is something really interesting about this article.

00:02:06.700 I think, obviously, what they meant to do here

00:02:08.820 or what Ryan meant to do here,

00:02:11.040 we know how he calls people with no pressure,

00:02:14.060 telling them to say nice things about his wife.

00:02:16.420 And, of course, he did the same thing here about himself.

00:02:19.360 It's so obvious to me when you read this article.

00:02:21.480 But apart from bragging about his power in Hollywood or his power in general here,

00:02:27.840 he also admits to something that made me go back and look at those text messages

00:02:33.940 that Blake Lively allegedly sent to Justin Baldoni.

00:02:39.100 Anyways, let's get quickly into this article first.

00:02:41.660 It says, Mayday directors reveal how a call from Ryan Reynolds to the mayor of Budapest

00:02:48.080 rescued a key scene.

00:02:50.720 so if it wasn't for ryan reynolds power that scene would never have happened and the movie would

00:02:57.800 probably be very very different according to this article it says here that john francis

00:03:03.560 delay and jonathan goldstein's cold war action comedy was nearly stopped cold when a key location

00:03:10.140 fell through and here's that key scene that they said that ryan rescued they had allegedly

00:03:16.100 enlisted a thousand extras and a thousand crew members wow costume designers had created one

00:03:23.380 thousand period accurate military uniforms while the production had a dozen soviet tanks at the

00:03:29.840 ready and a custom built nuclear launch vehicle for the shoot it was a massive says goldstein

00:03:36.880 here why would you do all of this by the way when you have iai why would you spend the money

00:03:43.060 on a thousand period accurate military uniforms and then you make a really crappy movie why not

00:03:49.240 spend more money on actually writing a good script but anyways it says here then that then

00:03:54.760 the team hit a major problem budapest would no longer let them shoot in harrow square which was

00:04:00.780 supposed to double for moscow's red square normally that would send a production into a tailspin but

00:04:07.000 fortunately for Daly and Goldstein, they had an ace in the hole, Ryan Reynolds. That's the

00:04:15.240 journalist's words, by the way, here. The Mayday star simply picked up the phone and called the

00:04:21.000 mayor of Budapest. It's like the 500-pound elephant when we need him, says Goldstein.

00:04:27.040 Everyone takes his call. I mean, can you believe it? This story is so planted by Ryan Reynolds.

00:04:35.460 Anyways, it says here that Ryan also commented on this, obviously, because he put the story there.

00:04:42.440 So he said here, one of the obscene, luxurious and disgusting side effects of fame is that you can get people on the phone that you otherwise couldn't.

00:04:53.600 I can take advantage of that as long as I'm fighting for the side of good.

00:04:57.900 he said that he said that he only take advantage of this when he is fighting for the side of good

00:05:07.400 yeah how ironic is that so as i said of course this article is planted like this

00:05:12.940 so that hollywood would know that people pick up the phone for ryan reynolds don't forget how

00:05:18.660 powerful he is no pressure there by the way as he always starts every single text and every single

00:05:25.040 email with here comes the interesting part it says in the article reynolds a screenwriter in

00:05:30.300 his own rights with credits include the 1.3 billion grosser deadpool and wolverine is known

00:05:37.840 for shaping many of his movies as an uncredited writer such as free guy and the atom project

00:05:46.360 they forgot to mention it ends with us here by the way that's what he's most famous for

00:05:51.880 and we know that he wrote so many jokes that he tried to put into the script of It Ends With Us

00:05:59.680 but then Sony was looking at it like hey this makes no sense whatsoever please keep this

00:06:05.180 ridiculous Deadpool jokes out of here so we know that he tried his best to take over the script

00:06:11.560 of It Ends With Us and we also know that Blake lively pretended it was all her and then he added

00:06:19.200 in this article but he enjoyed talking about ryan enjoyed taking a step back on the writing in mayday

00:06:26.480 they really crafted a complete tale a truly complete story says ryan so who was posting

00:06:32.860 deadpool and wolverine while shooting the movie so he was in post-production of deadpool and wolverine

00:06:37.680 while he did this movie and he said that you know they did such a great job that i didn't have to

00:06:42.460 go in and change everything in another article he talked about the best jokes that were his in the

00:06:47.980 movie by the way so who knows where the truth lays here only Ryan Reynolds I guess but anyways

00:06:53.300 here is what I find really interesting because as you know Blake kept complaining to Justin

00:06:59.800 that she was never credited for any of her writing she did so much writing on so many movies

00:07:07.480 but she never received any credit for it she wrote this really long-winded text message

00:07:15.120 to Justin Baldoni when she tried to get him to accept her husband's version of the rooftop scene

00:07:23.560 disguised as her version of the rooftop scene. So let's quickly look at this text message together.

00:07:32.780 So this is from April of 2023 and this was in Justin Baldoni's summary judgments. Blake said

00:07:41.460 to Justin, if you send me the FDX, I'll work when I can steal moments. And yes, of course,

00:07:46.540 please send to Christy. Christy was the screenwriter here. And Justin was just trying to

00:07:50.980 make everyone happy here while Blake was giving him new scripts every single day. He said that

00:07:56.000 in other texts that Blake came to the set every day with changes. And then Blake said, we're all

00:08:02.020 on the same team with the same goal. And Justin said, great. Also was working on rooftop scene

00:08:08.220 today. I really love what you did. It really does help a lot, makes it so much more fun and

00:08:15.200 interesting. And I would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor, Winky. You really are

00:08:20.720 a talent across the board, really excited and grateful to do this together. Justin is just

00:08:27.240 the nicest person. Anyways, then Blake's rant start. And after knowing the things that we know

00:08:34.100 now, I am 100% sure that Ryan Reynolds wrote this. Just listen to this entire message.

00:08:42.320 That's very appreciated and means a lot. I'm deeply inspired by the film we're going to make

00:08:47.560 outside of the success of this book. We have such an opportunity to not only surprise people who

00:08:52.500 love the book, but reach an even bigger audience by making an undeniably dynamic and also commercial

00:08:57.900 film that was most important for her as you know to make the movie commercials so she of course

00:09:05.340 could sell some Blake Brown and some Betty Buzz while they were at it and she continued the moment

00:09:11.240 that excited me most the other day was when you said you're not funny you are going to kill that

00:09:18.240 rooftop scene you know it I'm sure even though it was said in playful self-deprecation that we all

00:09:25.880 appreciate in, it made me think of the process as a whole. I trust that on the day you've got me

00:09:33.340 and I hope that you trust that I've got you if you want it. We're in this together and we're two of

00:09:40.460 the most determined people I know. We also have very high bar set for ourselves. To collaborate

00:09:46.520 with that type of partner is a gift that neither of us will squander because we both care too much

00:09:53.520 about the result and also the experience. I have no motives except for you to win, okay? As a

00:10:02.820 director, as an actor, as a studio, as a writer, if you win, I win. If you win, our movie wins.

00:10:12.900 We are aligned and I will bring everything I have to this. It is really funny to read this now

00:10:20.840 after we know that Blake didn't care about anyone but herself

00:10:24.840 and, of course, Ryan.

00:10:27.020 Anyways, this message continues.

00:10:30.520 As for, and then it said Taylor there, we know that now,

00:10:35.540 as for Taylor and Ryan, and I'm imagining it was Hugh here,

00:10:40.060 for that matter,

00:10:41.600 I'm the luckiest mother F on the planet 0.98

00:10:43.580 to have them as my dance moms level stage moms.

00:10:46.800 they are embarrassing they are embarrassingly effusive yeah i forgot that she actually called

00:10:54.380 ryan and taylor dance moms and stage moms anyway she continued that said they're also my most

00:11:01.660 trusted partners and the people i go to first with anything creative i touch and i am the person they

00:11:07.340 each go to first that reciprocal creativity and support has been one of my life's greatest and

00:11:14.420 most fulfilling gifts. When they loved and signed off on the pages, I felt good to send them to you.

00:11:21.540 She's talking about the rooftop scene that she manipulated and basically blackmailed

00:11:28.340 Justin into accepting because Ryan Reynolds wanted his writing in this movie. And she continued,

00:11:36.020 they asked what you thought specifically after. They checked in so many times. I told them that

00:11:43.140 you laughed a bunch and said it's probably a blend but you appreciate my passion so much

00:11:49.640 and then comes the hurt feelings which of course didn't feel great for me or them they didn't feel

00:11:58.020 great about this either it really hurt Taylor Swift that Justin Baldoni said that he appreciates

00:12:04.440 her passion he was just trying his best not to hurt her feelings to tell her that I don't like

00:12:11.220 all these Deadpool jokes in the rooftop scene and she continues it didn't feel great for me or them

00:12:16.400 to have my passion be praised instead of any specific contribution or even just that you

00:12:22.980 didn't like the pages which was fine also it wasn't fine because she just said that it didn't

00:12:29.120 feel great so Justin Baldoni really hurt Ryan Reynolds feelings here obviously because he wrote

00:12:36.360 it. And we know that. Blake said that he wrote it. So that's out of the question. And then she

00:12:41.400 continues. So I think they wanted you and me to see how they felt about the work because they've

00:12:47.700 been by my side for far too many experiences where I've been overlooked. I spoke to you about this

00:12:54.700 when we first met. They watched me handwrite scripts because the director is too afraid to

00:13:00.200 send the fdx file yet he scans and has someone hand type all 120 pages of my pencil rewrites

00:13:08.280 why would anyone do that you have a computer you can write notes on a computer anyways they watched

00:13:16.100 me be hired as a writer and paid a significant fee for it but on the condition that I never

00:13:23.100 ask for credit. Do you believe that? Which I could give a shit about. She doesn't care about it at all

00:13:31.500 that she's not credited. It's more the principle of the dynamics at play so she actually do care

00:13:38.640 about it. They've watched so Taylor and Ryan has witnessed this too. The other side of it too

00:13:44.560 where I'm told at signing on that I'm wanted as a true collaborator but once we get to work I'm

00:13:51.440 really just wanted as a yes man audience an actor a yes man i've never heard a woman being referred

00:13:58.920 to as a yes man before but maybe that's normal i don't know then she continues here we'll go

00:14:05.100 through what all of this means soon i promise you both ryan and t taylor i'm sure they blackened

00:14:11.600 her name out here have established themselves as absolute titans as writers and storytellers

00:14:17.980 outside of their primary outside of their primary gig just singing or just acting or and then there's

00:14:25.720 a longer black line here so maybe sean levy is also here mentioned by her because his name would

00:14:32.220 fit in there just directing since he was directing the deadpool movie i'm so lucky to have them as

00:14:39.680 creative barometers but also to have them as the people who prop me up and make sure i'm seen for

00:14:46.180 all I can and do offer she just said she didn't care about the credits but now she says she does

00:14:54.300 this whole mess it's such a word salad here but anyways because they know firsthand all I

00:15:00.940 contribute they also know I'm not always as good at making sure I'm seen and utilized for fear of

00:15:08.300 threatening egos or fear of affecting the ease of the process and because of that everyone listens

00:15:16.140 to them with immense respect and enthusiasm. So I guess I have to stop worrying about people liking

00:15:23.300 me. Then of course the ending here we all remember the most infamous part of this message where she

00:15:31.620 says if you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones you'll appreciate that I'm Khaleesi

00:15:36.940 and like her I happen to have a few dragons for better or worse but usually for better

00:15:42.120 because my dragons also protect those I fight for.

00:15:45.600 So really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine.

00:15:49.200 You will too, I can promise you.

00:15:52.160 Okay, so let's look closer into what this really means

00:15:55.680 and why I'm convinced now that Ryan Reynolds wrote this for Blake.

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00:17:46.540 saying that i sent you okay so let's get back into it first of all i've compared this message

00:17:54.600 to a lot of the messages that ryan reynolds wrote he loves really really long-winded messages we've

00:18:01.800 seen them especially the one he sent to Colleen Hoover and his agents as well they never end and

00:18:08.880 this text message doesn't really just say that Blake Lively was hurt that Justin didn't want

00:18:15.280 her version of the rooftop scene it constructs an entire case for why Blake deserves creative

00:18:22.080 authority she's been overlooked so many times before and she's even been paid to write scripts

00:18:29.060 but she never got credited for them and then she's saying that she doesn't really advocate

00:18:33.960 for herself but Taylor and Ryan does it for her what's interesting here is that she doesn't

00:18:40.500 mention the movies that she was overlooked for that she wrote scenes in and she contributed a

00:18:48.780 lot to without getting credited what movies are they why didn't she give any examples of movies

00:18:55.720 that she wrote that brings me to this article that ryan reynolds was quoted in in 2021 where

00:19:04.640 it says ryan reynolds reveals blake lively helped write lines in the deadpool script he said this

00:19:11.940 i write on a lot of my movies i've been a survival it's been a survival mechanism for me for a long

00:19:18.900 time sometimes i'm credited sometimes i'm not there's a lot of a plus plus writing that i've

00:19:25.000 done that was actually Blake that Blake would jump in grab the keyboard and what about this

00:19:31.620 and I'll be like that's incredible and you know it's funny I don't know maybe it's because

00:19:38.180 there's inherent sexism in the business I will say that a lot of times she wrote that Blake like

00:19:46.220 wrote that not me that was her and it's like they still later on repeat the story as I wrote it

00:19:54.540 I mean, of course, that's a flattering story for Blake that she wrote all of these scripts or contributed to them without getting any credit whatsoever.

00:20:05.820 But it makes Ryan look even better.

00:20:09.900 He doesn't just have the successful wife.

00:20:12.360 He is the enlightened husband championing for his brilliant wife against the sexist system in Hollywood.

00:20:21.920 And the reason why Ryan wants success for Blake is because it makes him look better.

00:20:30.100 And especially the fact that he is out there saying that she doesn't get all the credit

00:20:36.240 she deserves.

00:20:37.980 And I'm saying that as her husband because I am so supportive of her and I am a feminist.

00:20:44.620 And looking at that, thinking, by the way, that he's the one who wrote that scene,

00:20:51.380 that she was like oh i don't need credit for it but i did write it she told justin boldoni

00:20:57.920 while ryan reynolds was actually the person who wrote it who wanted to give his wife the credit

00:21:04.940 for that because he wanted her to look good so he could look even better remember this article i

00:21:12.280 spoke about it a while back it's from 2022 and it says the problem with famous men becoming wife

00:21:19.700 guys. Its argument was essentially that the wife guy persona can become a professional brand and

00:21:28.120 they used Ryan Reynolds as an example of that. It's a husband that constantly publicly adores

00:21:35.360 champions and celebrates his wife and audiences reward him for being such an enlightened devoted

00:21:42.980 husband. Remember Ryan's message for Blake on her birthday on Instagram? He called her a genius

00:21:50.900 because he believes that he is a genius. And I've mentioned this before, Blake Lively has never said

00:21:58.540 publicly that she watches Game of Thrones. She said back when she was shooting a film with Michelle

00:22:05.960 hoistman who actually is in game of thrones this was the movie was called age of adeline and there

00:22:14.140 was an interview with the two of them when she where she admitted that she had never watched

00:22:18.880 game of thrones oh okay blake are you a game of thrones fan not yet it's a life choice so i

00:22:25.900 haven't i haven't made that life choice yet but i'm really excited to and everyone i know is like

00:22:30.400 oh i'll watch every episode with you again for you and i'm like no no it's just for you right

00:22:34.660 because you guys are so obsessed um so yeah but i can totally picture blake in the game of thrones

00:22:39.940 world right can't you it's a dragon yeah maybe like you kind of have mother of dragon hair going

00:22:45.460 in a good way and that makes it interesting that she's using this reference now in this text message

00:22:53.040 and as we've learned through interviews with ryan he's a huge fan of game of thrones so the fact

00:23:00.280 that they added these are my dragons I'm Kaleishi and all of that stuff I believe as I said before

00:23:07.640 that is Ryan Reynolds language that is definitely something that he wrote and not Blake so yeah the

00:23:15.100 fact that Ryan just came out in the Hollywood Reporter and said that he wrote many other

00:23:21.000 movies that he wasn't credited for makes me believe that he is the voice in this text message

00:23:27.860 that Blake Lively sent to Justin Baldoni.

00:23:31.000 I so rarely get credited for the things that I really do.

00:23:35.180 And the fact that we know that he was the one who wrote this scene.

00:23:38.640 It just makes so much sense to me now.

00:23:41.760 Yeah, let me know what you think about this.

00:23:43.980 Anyways, let's get into this new filing from the Wayfair parties.

00:23:48.800 So just a quick recap of this case now. 0.76

00:23:52.480 Stephanie Jones and Jones' work.

00:23:54.540 who was the publicist that Justin Baldoni hired to begin with or he hired her company

00:24:00.300 and Jennifer Abel was the publicist that was appointed to work with Justin Baldoni and she

00:24:05.620 also used to work for Jones Works. So after Blake Lively filed her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni

00:24:10.620 Stephanie Jones filed a lawsuit against her ex-employee Jennifer Abel, Melissa Nathan,

00:24:17.280 Justin Baldoni, Wayfair parties, and DOS, meaning anonymous people, alleging that they conspired

00:24:27.420 against her and Joan's works, including stealing clients and business from her and breaching

00:24:33.840 contracts, disparaging her and participating in a smear campaign, including the mysterious

00:24:41.660 websites then jennifer abel her ex-employee countersued her and jones works alleging that 0.99

00:24:50.440 stephanie jones improperly accessed and took her private phone and cloud data and provided it to

00:24:57.720 blake lively causing serious professional and reputational damage to her and some claims were

00:25:03.700 dismissed but others have survived the most important claims have survived in jennifer

00:25:09.800 Abel's case against Stephanie Jones and then the Wayfair parties also countersued Stephanie Jones

00:25:16.940 some of their claims were also dismissed but the survival claims include defamation alleging that

00:25:24.900 Jones falsely portrayed Wayfair as being involved in the campaign against Blake Lively and damaging

00:25:31.100 the company. So that's this case, basically, in a nutshell. And Stephanie Jones recently

00:25:38.500 agreed to drop some of her claims against the Wayfair Party. But then she changed her mind

00:25:47.060 about it. She told them in writing, I will drop this defamation claim against Melissa Nathan,

00:25:53.700 because she couldn't find any proof that they had created these smear websites about her.

00:25:58.440 she initially said that they were behind stephanie jones lies and stephanie jones whatever i don't

00:26:04.900 remember the name of the other website and she claimed that they were behind these websites but 0.98

00:26:09.860 she couldn't find any proof of that and now that there are other lawsuits in hollywood where also

00:26:16.960 melissa nathan is involved and jed wallace stephanie jones says hey i don't want to drop those

00:26:22.300 claims anyways because i think i can get some evidence from over here and use in this case

00:26:26.960 So now these mysterious John Doe's that she was suing all these anonymous people, she's like, hey, I know it's Melissa Nathan, because you could see from the Rebel Wilson case and the Alexa Nicholas case that they were planning to create smear websites or she was a part of creating smear websites for them.

00:26:49.440 So the Wayfair parties responded to this just a couple of days ago saying, hey, judge, they told us in writing, we are dropping these claims against these anonymous people for creating this website.

00:27:03.920 So they can't just say now that, hey, we want to bring it back in again.

00:27:08.160 i've spoken about this before that even though melissa nathan was hired maybe allegedly was

00:27:15.480 hired to create a website for rebel wilson it doesn't mean that she did it towards stephanie

00:27:21.360 jones she definitely didn't do it towards blake lively there were no websites about blake lively

00:27:27.000 anywhere so the fact that she's being accused here of doing that towards stephanie jones and

00:27:32.780 then stephanie jones was like oh i don't have any evidence of that i'm going to withdraw that claim

00:27:37.340 and then she's like oh i see some evidence over there i'm gonna put this in here and now the

00:27:41.000 wafer party is saying hey judge no way so we'll see what the judge says about this and if stephanie

00:27:49.120 jones has any new evidence or if she's just trying to introduce evidence from another case which

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