The first clip is the the least sensational report I could find – well done BBC World Service.
Domestic Violence as a rom-com did make me feel a bit queasy.
In the first clip below, Blake shows contempt for a journalist by not taking the interview seriously. The second includes an interview with an intern whom Blake complained about – accusations included making eye contact! I understand making eye contact during a take is distracting. But I also remember when an actor conplained about a spark working in his eye-line to which the spark asked whether or not he wanted to be lit!
In defense of actors, usually, they are easy to get on with – team players – but hey, there are arseholes in any job. The ones I encountered were usually those who hadn’t made it to the level they thought their talent deserved.
Cringefest alert!
Below, it is very rare that crew will speak out, particularly junior crew when they talk, I listen.
A relatively inexperienced director should not have acted in his own film. It’s too hard to do both jobs well. I would never have cast someone that famous unless I knew them well. I would never have allowed actors to have that much power over me as director. It’s evident in texts that Blake was using her ‘dragons’ to intimidate Baldoni – threatening not to rejoin the shoot after the writers’ strike unless all her terms were agreed. Below is the cringest, fawning message Baldoni left Blake – trying to keep her on side. Perhaps he harassed in revenge for Blake using Ryan Reynolds, her husband, and her friend Taylor Swift to pressure him into accepting all her demands.
I don’t think I’d like to work with either of them – life is too short for her overentitled demands and his schoolboy creepiness. She had to ban him from letting non-essential crew watch sexual scenes!
Central to this will be the intimacy coordinator, whose job is to look at the sex scenes with the director and cast to work out exactly who does what to whom. Before intimacy coordinators, usually, male actors would cross boundaries – sticking their tongue into the screen partner’s mouth, groping on the slightest pretext, etc. Why wasn’t the coordinator on set during every sexual scene? Why wouldn’t Blake meet the coordinator before filming started?
Bardoni thought casting Blake got him a Barbie to direct, and he got a Diva! Perhaps both got what they deserved. It will be interesting to read what the law makes of their cases.
#ItEndsWithUs #BlakeLively #JustinBaldoni
