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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Yeah it started with her issues with Justin Baldoni her Co star and director from It Ends with Us. She made allegations against him of sexual harassment, then loads of videos came out of her being horrible in interviews and apparently in Deadpool Vs Wolverine one of the multiverse Deadpools Ryan played was mocking Justin so he's taking both Ryan and Blake to court for defamation or something. I don't know too much of the ends and outs or which of them is in the wrong but Blake and Ryan seems to be looking worse
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I have a very different read on this because I think Justin Baldoni is full of sh1t
. Though I don't think it's as simple as the other side would make it out to be either. I think there were CLEAR issues on the set of the movie and some inappropriateness, my honest read is that 1) they potentially got a little too close and blurred the professional relationship but ALSO having gotten the "wrong signal" he was further unprofessional and inappropriate. Feedback from other crew on that movie is pretty divided on "who is right" so it's definitely not clear cut. I suspect Ryan Reynolds has been drawn into it because... well... it's a mess - and it's snowballed.
The Internet has gone in heavily on Blake Lively because that's what they do, the Mens Rights types are (of course) on the Baldoni side and using it as an excuse to go on a tirade, and a lot of women are because of the dumb-old-trope that he can't possibly have been inappropriate because they think he's hot. Her "nasty interviews" read as social anxiety (both Lively and Reynolds have pre-documented anxiety issues also).
The "Nicepool" stuff is fairly dubious/ridiculous because that film would have been fully filmed before any of the drama started, so the accusation has to be that it was made to mock him BEFORE any of this, when Lively and Baldoni were supposedly still friends. The only feasible explanation for that I can see is that Reynolds personally didn't like the guy (or maybe didn't like their friendship) and so put references in Deadpool... but honestly the comparisons/reasoning that it's intended to mock him are paper thin and verging on conspiracy theory, like "one of the shops in the background is a flower shop, and Baldoni used to bring flowers!!!"
tl;dr I think the whole thing is basically a messy and nuanced interpersonal situation that's become very, very public and the internet has used it as mostly an excuse to attack the only female involved as much as possible. Which is just standard stuff really. Again not saying there isn't some mess on all sides but I personally think Baldoni
(and maybe partly Ryan Reynolds/the green eyed monster) are a big part of the equation.