Blake Lively

Sounds good to me. Thinking they rather deserve each other.

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It seems a number of women MoFos have posted on this thread saying they dislike Blake Lively or don't care for her....Question for the women MoFos: Did you dislike Blake Lively before this incident with Baldoni became public? If so why?
Did Blake play a negative or annoying character in Gossip Girl? I haven't seen that.

*No right or wrong answers, I'm just curious.

I am more or less indifferent about Blake herself. I mean, either as an actor or a celebrity.

But I don't think she had any motive to denounce something if it hadn't actually happened. And that, alone, seems like more than enough reason to be cautiously sympathetic for what she's doing now.

The more important question, I think, is where does everyone stand on sexual harassment in the workplace? I would imagine absolutely nobody here thinks it should be tolerated.

So, if the allegations are true, then we have to support anyone who denounces those actions, whether or not the person herself is "likable" or not.

At least that's how I see it.

But Baldoni seems to have gotten just what he intended - making the debate about Blake's likability, not about him being held accountable over what he allegedly did.

I like Blake Lively as an actress in films such as: The Town (2010), The Age of Adaline (2015), The Shallows (2016).

I enjoyed those movies. Forgot she was in them.

I was about to say I haven't really seen much from her, but turns out she was in Age of Adeline, A Simple Favor, and The Rhythm Section and I really liked her performances in all three films. So I guess turns out she's one of those people whose name I never remember and don't tend to recognize.

So professionally (as an actress), thumbs up. I had no feelings about her personally (as a human) one way or the other because she's not on my radar in the celebrity gossip sense.

Thanks Takoma. I had noticed a couple of female posters seemed to really dislike her (not you) I was just wondering if Blake was one of those actors/actresses that annoy people just from her onscreen personality.

I think it might be a Gwyneth Paltrow vibe people have gotten from her. I don't know if it's entirely fair or accurate but it's really hard to get too worked up over it.

I’m neutral. Not seen her in much, but I did like the movie where she got stranded & sharks were close by.

I was actually going to mention Gwyneth Paltrow in comparison to the reaction to Blake Lively. I never knew why people don't like Paltrow?

I thought Gwyneth was quite likeable - before she became a grifter.

An I sensing a pattern here, or do some discussions just start as one thing and end up becoming about the likability of random women?

It's still kinda amazing that people are talking about Blakes character on screen and not her character in real life.



Giving Blake Lively the benefit of the doubt is first of all ignoring 20 years of stories about her and also just being intellectually lazy. This small production company that she assumed she could crush and acquire the IP like a robber baron has completely turned on her. Many of Blake's lies are going to be exposed frankly easily.



But it's going to take me two-five times to even get this post to register on the board so I won't be doing the Blake Lively deep dive of all the crap she's done over the years.

Before this movie, I'd never heard of Justin Baldoni. When this controversy hit, I reviewed Blake Lively's filmography to see if I'd seen movies that she'd been in. This is not relevant to whether she was or was not harassed or the victim of a hostile work environment or a smear campaign, but I have seen Blake Lively in 4 movies, and I really only remember her being in one of them. I liked it. It was "A Simple Favor" (a sequel to this movie is being released in 2025), but more for Anna Kendrick and the story. From that, I conclude that, at least for me, I haven't been impressed with her acting, since I didn't even remember it in 3 of the 4 movies that I'd watched.

Ah attacking her character I see. Typical tactic. I notice it’s become more about what kind of person she is, which isn’t relevant to wether her accusations are true regarding Baldroni.

I could care less about whether she ia a terrible person or not. That doesn’t magically negate her allegations.
And she has made plenty of missteps over the film’s message regarding domestic abuse among other things, as Beezlebubble already mentioned.

I’m waiting to see how this all shakes out. I think there is a fair bit of wrongdoing on both sides, but if you hold their respective allegations side by side, I’d wager one of them is worse than the other, if true

I agree with you overall, but she has two claims. One is that he committed sexual harassment against her. That is not related to whether she is a nice person or not, or whether she was professional on the set, or whether she tried to do a hostile takeover of a movie that he was the director for. You can be not a very nice person and also a victim of sexual harassment, as you've said. What might be related, however, in terms of her character or her demeanor, is her behavior while promoting the movie, because it may speak to whether or not she was the victim of a smear campaign, which was created and driven forward by Baldoni, or, alternatively, whether her videos went viral because people really didn't like the way she appeared in them. If they didn't like them, that could explain why her popularity declined. "It Ends with Us" was a highly anticipated movie, and the book had a lot of fans, and Colleen Hover is a popular author of romance novels, which are all reasons that they made the film in the first place. If the reason her interviews where she treated people rudely, and when she inappropriately promoted her own hair care and alcohol brands while promoting the movie, went viral is because people, fans of the book or romance movies or who were checking out her videos looking for the next hit movie, thought her behavior was strange, or odd, or tone deaf, or unprofessional, and so they shared it widely among their circle, then it may be the case that the damage to her popularity was organic, rather than driven by a smear campaign of Baldoni's creation. We don't know the truth here, but that would be relevant to her allegations. Her behavior, her perceived character, and how she appears as a person to people watching the videos, would all, arguably, factor into a perception that someone either likes Blake Lively, or they don't.

If Blake Lively broke the law, she must face the consequences
If Justin Baldoni broke the law, he must face the consequences.

I don't hate Blake Lively. I'm kind of indifferent to her. She is very glamourous and an okay actress. I wouldn't go see anything she is in just because she is in it. I saw The Shallows and A Simple Favor, both of which I enjoyed. But if you listen to gossip podcasts and see the popculture media on youtube, she was definitely portrayed as unlikeable when the her new movie came out. The idea that it was a PR blitz of some kind was something I thought about before Blake began to push that narrative.

I am completely indifferent to how this plays out. But I am fascinated by all the inside baseball info we are getting into how the Hollywood game is played.

Thanks for posting that, that is what I was looking for an explanation as to why her public image seemed damaged.

Thanks for posting that. That goes with what AKA just said so further explains backlash against Blake.

Americans hate any kind of snootiness or snobbery. Gwyneth and Blake both carry themselves in a grand dame kind of way. I like Gwyneth as an actress. I love her performance as Emma.

I also love her performance in real life as the plaintiff when some guy tried to sue her for damages when they collided on a ski slope and he was injured. She was hilariously disdainful.

I remember a great line from Sex and the City. Carrie is seeing the same therapist as Gwyneth and her friend ask her why Gwyneth has to go to a therapist. "She suffers from high self-esteem."

If there is personal backlash against BL, that shouldn't make us forget that Baldoni's alleged sexual harassment affected numerous individuals in the cast and crew, as per the complaint filed.