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Ryan Reynolds is now reading bedtime stories for kids on Nickelodeon. Also, we have to talk about this photo from the promotion of It Ends With Us that started recirculating again with the cast, and especially look at what Isabella Ferrer is doing here. Let s also talk about that text exchange that the Sony executive had with Ryan Reynolds and when he is confronted about it by Justin Baldoni's attorney.
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Yeah, who doesn't want Ryan Reynolds to read bedtime stories for their kids?
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Jashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice
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of reason in a town built on delusion. Okay, so there's only one thing that's better than reading
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stories to your family and that is Ryan Reynolds reading stories to your family. Yes, he is now
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reading bedtime stories on Nickelodeon. You won't believe this. Also, we have to talk about this
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photo from the promotion of It Ends With Us that started recirculating again with the cast baking
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and especially look at what Isabella Ferrer is doing here. Let's also talk about that text exchange that
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the Sony executive had with Ryan Reynolds and when he's confronted about that by Justin Baldoni's
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attorney. Yeah, this is quite funny. Okay, so let's jump into this bedtime stories thing with
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Ryan Reynolds. When this came up in my feed on Instagram yesterday from Entertainment Tonight,
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I was like, is this a joke? Is this a spoof? But apparently it's not. So Ryan Reynolds did a deal
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with Nickelodeon apparently where he's going to read bedtime stories for kids every night. I think
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it's 7pm or something. It starts on March 2nd and it's 10 episodes of Ryan reading from this book.
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It's going to be on the Nick Jr. channel. So it is for children and it says here in the press release
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that in the series Reynolds reads new and classic bedtime stories as the tales magically comes to life
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around him creating a warm, playful and imaginative wind-down experience for kids and parents to enjoy
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Ryan Reynolds is taking over your bedtime routine.
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So the trailer was attached and I clicked on the trailer and that link got me to YouTube and I just
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realized that the YouTube video from Nickelodeon, and Nickelodeon has like millions and millions and
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millions of subscribers, it's not public. It is unlisted still. So you can only get to, so you can
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only see the YouTube video if you have the direct link to it. Also, of course, the comment section is
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shut off. So I feel like this was a deal that Nickelodeon could not get out of, but they had to
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commit to it. So they were just like, let's just put it out there and hope no one would even notice it.
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Because why would you put a promotional video for something you want people to watch
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and hide it on YouTube? It makes zero sense to me. It says here that it was created by
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Reynolds and George Dewey. The first season of Bedtime Stories with Ryan was directed by
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Vincent Pion. So I'm assuming this is the first season and I'm assuming there won't be more.
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And it's of course produced by Ryan Reynolds' company. I was really entertained reading all the
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comments on Instagram when Entertainment Tonight published the story yesterday. I couldn't find
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any comments of people who were actually excited about this. And now that we know who Ryan Reynolds
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really is, after reading those text messages and emails, how he was threatening and harassing people.
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And on top of that, what he was doing to his own daughter in the Deadpool movie, when he basically
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forced her to say this line that's so R-rated that I can't even repeat it here on my channel.
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Basically, Ines, who I think at that time was like nine years old, she had to say to Deadpool,
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take your D out of Wolverine's mouth. And she didn't want to say. There is a behind the scene video
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where Ryan Reynolds and Sean Levy, his BFF, they're talking about this scene specifically
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with Ines, where Ryan said that she didn't want to say it. And we had to do that take about 50 times.
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And I had to threaten her to tell her, you know, if you don't want to say it, I'll find someone else.
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And then at the end, she ended up doing it. Also, the drama last year on the red carpet at Toronto
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Film Festival, when Ryan was being rude to this kid, there were headlines everywhere saying like,
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why was he so rude to this little boy, this reporter that was on the red carpet who wanted
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to ask him a question. And Ryan just like brushed him off like, hey, what's your question? Let's just
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get to the question here. And then he was like, ha ha ha. Like, I'm a monster. What's your question
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for me, buddy? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Let's skip to the question. So to me, when I think
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about Ryan Reynolds and kids, I see a man that always just makes fun of kids. He doesn't take them
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seriously. He makes fun of kids in front of other adults. And I think that's a terrible example.
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And why on earth would anyone want to listen to Ryan Reynolds reading bedtime stories? I'm sure that
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Nickelodeon signed this deal with Ryan way before this drama started. If they had seen those text
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messages that he sent to Sony and to WME and the language he used in those text messages, why would
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they want him for a project like this for kids? There are a few stories online today talking about
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this. And one of them is mentioning the other projects that Ryan has coming out in 2026. And
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they mentioned Animal Friends and Mayday. And as we know, Animal Friends has been postponed like
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three times already. And the same for Mayday. Mayday has been, it's an Apple TV production. They shot it
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already in 2024. But they also been just like pushing the release of that film. They also
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mentioned here that there are rumors that the 49 year old Vancouver native will return to one of his
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most iconic roles of all time, Deadpool, when Avengers Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18.
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The film will mark the biggest Marvel studio crossover feature to date and could see Reynolds
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reprise his role as Deadpool, blah, blah, blah. When I read this, I was like, can you imagine for the
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other actors in the Avengers? And they set up the press junket days where they always pair people up.
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I've done a lot of junkets for the Avengers. And they always pair people like three or four people
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together. And then you read on the call sheet and you're like, oh, I'm going to be paired up with
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Ryan Reynolds. This is going to be great for my career. Yeah, I wonder how they're going to work
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around that. If it's even true that I think this is just speculations so far. But I think Ryan last
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year, he did post like a little Easter egg with the Avengers, that sign on his Instagram. And people
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were like, oh my god, why would he do that if he wasn't in the movie? So I don't know, we'll just have
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to wait and see. I know some of my friends here in LA was invited to a press conference pretty soon
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with Ryan Reynolds for that movie May Day. So let's see if he shows up this time. I know he
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didn't show up for the press days that Apple had here in LA a couple of weeks ago. He was supposed
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to be there. His name was in the press release, but he just decided to go AWOL. Okay, so let's talk
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about this photo of the cast of It Ends With Us. It's obvious that Justin Boldoni was left out of this
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promo. As we know, he wasn't promoting this movie with any of the other cast members. But what's
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funny about this is that the four of them, as you see, it's Blake and Isabelle, who played young
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Lily, and the guy Alex, who played young Atlas, and Brandon Sklenar, who played Atlas as a grown-up.
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And all of them are baking together. And if you look closely, Isabella Ferrer is licking cookie
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dough off her finger. I think people are especially reacting to that because, you know, she was
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complaining in her deposition that Justin had suggested on the set that she should lick cookie
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dough off a spoon in a suggestive way because she was flirting with Atlas. It was just before they had
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their big moment together, and they were in the kitchen, and he was baking. And she said that that
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felt very offensive to her, and he really crossed the line by suggesting that, even though it is in
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the book that that moment between them has a lot of tension. But she said that that was really
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inappropriate. But in this promotional photo here, she has no issue licking cookie dough of her own
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finger. And guess who Blake tagged in this promo? Well, of course, maximum effort, Ryan Reynolds'
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company, meaning that they were, of course, behind this stunt, that they produced this stunt.
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We gave the Atlas ingredients no directions. Challenge 2 in British Bake Off. It ends with
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a smoothie edition. It was a certified disaster. There were head shakes instead of handshakes.
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And then she's thanking all these people. It's interesting when you look at young Atlas in
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these photos because he's one of the few people from the cast, him and Hasan Minhaj. They're the
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only two people who kept a distance. They didn't pick sides. They've just been quiet. And I was looking
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at Atlas, at young Atlas or Alex Instagram, and he only has one post there of a dog. And he had the
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comment sections closed off completely. It's not limited. You just can't comment. And he only has
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one post. And he's followed by Justin Baldoni, the Wayfair Parties and Colleen Hoover and none of the
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others. So I am wondering what happened there. Did they freeze him out eventually because he didn't
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want to support Blake? I don't know. We don't know much about him. But we know that he was on set when
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Isabella was shooting those scenes that she later complained about. But we haven't really heard anything
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from him. Also, same with Hasan Minhaj. I talked about that before. He actually came out publicly
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and said the set was lovely and he had no issues and he didn't know what people were talking about.
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So, I mean, it wasn't impossible not to have an opinion about what happened here. So the people who
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picked a side, especially the people who picked a side who had no issues with Justin, like Brandon
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Sklenor, it of course makes you question the integrity of these people. Anyways, as I mentioned
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yesterday, if you watched that episode, I did read parts from Josh Greenstein's deposition.
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He was the Sony executive at the time. He later went off to work for Paramount. So in July of last
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year, he jumped from Sony, he jumped ship from Sony and went over to Paramount. And as you could see
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yesterday from his deposition, he put all responsibility for the terrible tone deaf marketing
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on Sony. He said everything was Sony's idea. It was Sony's idea to do the whole thing with
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bring your friends and wear your florals and all these pop-up events. It was also Sony's ideas.
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When they asked how much power Blake Lively had over those things, he said he couldn't really recall.
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But in other parts of his deposition, he kept saying how much influence Blake had and how much she helped
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this production. And he was so in awe over her talent and her commitment. But there's no mention
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of what hard maximum effort actually played in the promotion of the movie. But we know that Ryan
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Reynolds' company produced a lot of this marketing material. One of the things that got a lot of
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attention was that sketch, that junket crasher video that they did when Ryan Reynolds was acting like
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a jealous husband in front of Brandon Sklenar. He also got his mom in there and Hugh Jackman.
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And now thinking about it, him acting as a jealous husband in a movie about DV, it's so, so tone deaf.
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I was expecting not to like him. But he is so nice.
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It's like, how on earth can you think that that is a good idea? To make a funny sketch about a jealous
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husband when you know the theme of this film? Of course, as I didn't mention yesterday, is how much
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of an interest Josh Greenstein has in supporting Ryan here? Because Ryan's company Maximum Effort
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just signed another deal with Paramount for another four years where they have a first look deal with
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them. And now that Josh Greenstein is at Paramount, do you think it benefits him to be siding with
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Blake and Ryan or nods? And I'm wondering if that's why he takes so much ownership in the PR campaign
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here, why he's admitting that all these like bad ideas that the public reacted to so badly were Sony's
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ideas. We can also see from his deposition that they talk about a lot of these focus groups that
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they run. And from those focus groups, they thought that the best way to market this movie was to focus
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on Lily's strengths and that her relationships doesn't define her. I remember Blake talked a lot
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about that actually in interviews that, oh, this doesn't define her. It's just a part of her, but it
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doesn't define her as a person. And that's one of the things that Josh Greenstein also talks about
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in his deposition. It's also clear that Josh Greenstein and Sony were made aware of all the backlash
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that the actors received for promoting the movie this way. But then they didn't do anything about
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it. So why didn't they act on it? Why didn't they change the strategy when they knew that the
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marketing wasn't working? Well, it was because the movie was doing so well and they thought this is
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super successful. A lot of people went to see the movie. So the marketing in their eyes was really
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successful. And it seems to me like Sony didn't really care if the cast of the movie were bullied
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Okay, so let's get back into it. So yes, there was a text exchange between Josh Greenstein and Ryan
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Reynolds. And it's so clear to me, reading these texts from Ryan Reynolds, he is so manipulative.
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As a reminder, I'm going to read parts of this that he sent to Josh. And this was, keep that in
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mind, this was in May of 2024. So this was months before the premiere. This was way before Blake started
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getting backlash in the press and on social media. So if you are a husband protecting your wife,
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it would be natural for you to say that your wife feels unsafe on this set. And if Sony can do
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something about it. But instead, Ryan is writing this. First, he's congratulating him and said that
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you pulled off the marketing triumph with this. There was another movie that Josh was involved in.
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And then Ryan says, and marketing is my favorite discipline of all the martial arts. I hope I get
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the benefit of your black belt one of these days soon. And then he says, more importantly, Josh,
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I can't thank you enough for the level of integrity and leadership with the, it ends with this drama.
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You're not only backstopping a vastly better version of the film, but you're making fans and allies left,
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right and center. So he's basically saying, because you're doing as I tell you to do,
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then you're making more friends everywhere. It's so manipulative. Anyways, he continues,
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the behind the scenes stuff has been so confounding. He doesn't mention what it is. And in Josh
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Greenstein's deposition, he says that he didn't know what the drama was about. He didn't know the
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specific. He knew there were tensions on the set, but he didn't know what it was. I find it so weird
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that he wouldn't want to try to find that out. But of course, if he admits that he knew that there
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was S.H. on the set and Sony decided not to act on it, it would put Sony in a difficult position.
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So he just says that he can't recall and he doesn't know, he didn't know what all the drama was about.
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But here Ryan continues to say, if I read it in a script, my main note would be tone it down.
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This guy is genuinely touched in some very strange ways. Talking about Justin, like a melon baller
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lobotomy makes more sense than his self-propelled malignant stupidity and revolting behavior.
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I can imagine there's almost no aspect of this which has been easy for you to navigate,
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Ryan is saying. But you stood up for what's right in a system which more often than not favor what's
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easy. You protected my wife from so much and so often. Okay, what did he protect his wife from?
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And in protecting her, you've also preserved the film and its ability to not only work commercially,
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but achieve a second and possibly better objective. Going, giving voice to a vital issue
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affecting so many people. He's giving so much cred to Josh here. I mean, are people buying this
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when someone is kissing your ass at this level? Do people really buy it? I wonder what Josh was
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thinking when he received this. Anyway, he continues, no matter what, you have a lifetime supply
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of admiration, respect and friendship from me. If there's any way I can pay it forward any time,
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say the word and I'll show up for you. Try me, Ryan says. And then Josh Greenstein responds saying,
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thanks Ryan, so happy to be in same conversation as Furiosa. Crazy, he says, talking about this other
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movie. I really appreciate your kind words. I'm so impressed with how Blake has handled the
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situation. Okay, what situation when he doesn't really know what happened? Her North Star is the
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movie and the fans and you can never go wrong with that as your driver. I tell my wife and daughters
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all the time you need to advocate for yourself, especially in this world as a woman. Not only does
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Blake do that for herself, but she's a creative force and a total badass. So he's basically also saying
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here that Blake Lively is standing up for herself and she's a total badass. So how can she be a
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powerless victim at the same time? That doesn't make any sense. He continues to say, her cut is
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better, no question. I have her back all the way. So he wasn't even interested in this bake-off at all.
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He was just backing Sony or Blake's version. They call it Sony's version, but it is Blake's version.
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Blake, call it Blake's version. Anyway, and we know that Justin's cut was actually rating higher
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than hers, but they went for hers anyway. And Josh Greenstein is saying here that he has her back.
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He's going to go with her cut no matter what. And he says, would be a dream to have both of you
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making movies at Sony in the future. Well, now I think it's his dream that they will do deals with
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Paramount or maybe not anymore after this all came out. And then he ends it with, hope you enjoy
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having biggest movie of summer and probably biggest R rating opening of all time. So this
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movie was supposed to be, as I said before, an R rated movie. And then they changed it to a PG movie.
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Justin always wanted it to be R rated, but then Blake and her team on Sony maybe wanted it to be
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a PG 13 movie. And then he ends it with, you will actually have top three R rated movie openings of
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all times. So yeah, Josh is responding back to Ryan with same kiss ass. I mean, this is just makes
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me kind of like, oh, anyways, in Josh's deposition, he's asked about this exchange he had with Ryan
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Reynolds. And it's quite funny. So the attorney is asking him, what did you mean when you wrote,
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I'm so impressed with how Blake has handled the situation. And he says, I believe I meant how
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impressed I was with what all, you know, what she was doing in terms of the movie and the
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marketing campaign under these circumstances. And then he's asking, and what impressed you about
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how Blake was handling the marketing campaign under these circumstances? Well, at the time,
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let me, I'm just going to read my response. It was, it was about, uh, thanks. Uh, thank you. Yeah,
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I believe it was about, about how creative she was, how she wouldn't settle for anything but
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greatness in the film and in the marketing campaign. So he's basically saying that her handling the
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situation was only creative differences then. He's not saying her handling the situation was
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about anything that happened to her, but it's so obvious that that is what he's referring to.
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Uh, but he doesn't want to admit that. And the attorney continues to ask him about this other thing
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that he wrote to Ryan. I tell my wife and daughters all the time, you need to advocate for, advocate for
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yourself, especially in this world as a woman. I'm wondering why you included that. And he says, well,
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it's, um, I probably because I've been on so many movies where, you know, similar disagreements have
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happened between star and director or studio and star or studio and director, you know, there's all
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kind of producers or financiers. So he's saying that he said that because this is normal to have these
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kind of arguments on a movie set. So this isn't out of the ordinary at all for him. Interesting.
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And he says, and it's quite common for, in my experience, male stars to have real opinions and
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use their weight to say this is what it's got to be. And I just didn't think there should be a double
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standard. So he doesn't think that the director, who's also an actor in the movie and the producer of
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the movie should not have more of a say than the actress they hired because she's a woman.
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And then an attorney is asking, did you think there was a double standard? And he's like, well,
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I think that, uh, that the pushback, I think I was responding to from that was going on. I'm not sure.
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I felt there wasn't double standard. I was just saying, I liked the fact that Blake was really
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speaking up for herself and trying to do what was best for the movie. So again, he's trying to make
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this only about the movie. And with these things, with these conversations, like this kind of text
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exchange that he had with Ryan, and it's never mentioned anything about SH. How is that possible?
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And the language that Ryan uses here is not like he's holding back on his feelings about this.
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Why is he not saying that this man has been so inappropriate to my wife and I need to protect
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her? And at the same time, when Josh is saying that Blake is standing up for herself, it just
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looks terrible. All right, you guys, that's it for me on a Friday. I hope you're going to have an
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amazing weekend, everyone. And please take care of yourself and each other. And if you haven't
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