Are all the online commenters fighting for Blake Lively bots?
I'm trying to follow all the discourse around this "It Ends With Us" drama, and every post is filled with comments about how "Lively was sexually harassed", and saying anything other than that is a "smear campaign" by the Baldoni PR team.
But doesn't it seem like this is all just a reverse smear campaign by Lively / Reynolds (who no doubt have access to 100x more powerful PR teams than Baldoni)
If I'm reading the facts for Lively, they all seem to be provably rebutted by Baldoni?
-He allegedly repeatedly walked in on her breast feeding (he produced a text saying she at least one time asked him to do run lines while breastfeeding)
-The other producer showed her a video of a birth (they were filming a birth scene and it seems really relevant to show the aesthetic / shooting style they were hoping to reproduce to the actress in the scene?)
- He asked about her weight (he said it was because he had to lift her, and he didnt seem to do this publicly and actually seemed to ask the trainer privately trying to keep it covert?)
- He kissed her not in a way that was not in the script (maybe but this was all on camera in front of like 100 people and i think they had an intimacy coordinator)
- They had some intervention with the studio where Baldoni agreed to stop all this behavior (not sure what this is evidence of other than the studios are going to cater to its stars - and it seems like there weren't further issues after the stipulations in the sit down)
Meanwhile, Baldoni's lawsuit seems more revealing when he alleges
- Lively made a joke about his nose (I don't really care but apparently this comment was at least public and is on video which is more than you can say for her allegations)
- Lively and her husband tried to re-write multiple scenes, which she herself acknowledges - which is really kind of a shitty thing to do as an actor when you sign on to a director/producer's project
- Lively then implied that her scenes should be used because Reynolds and Taylor Swift liked it better (this is just cringe-y behavior and her trying to throw her bigger star power over the director)
- Insisted on recutting the movie (again, this is not normal - you hear directors trying to recut movies battling the studios but its weird for an actor to fight against the director). Baldoni claims that the studio agreed to release which version tested higher (and his did), but then the studio went with Lively's cut (presumably because she refused to promote the film otherwise)
- Sent a weird text referring to herself as Khaleesi and saying she has powerful dragons (presumably saying Reynolds and Taylor Swift)
I come away from this not really knowing if Baldoni did sexually harass Lively, but having a pretty clear picture (at least if Baldoni does in fact have the receipts) that she tried to use her star power to wrestle control from the movie's director.
Am i missing something? Or do others think the unanimous chorus trumpeting Lively is just bots?