Blake Lively faces backlash over It Ends With Us

Blake Lively it’s all over is the second-biggest movie in the U.S., but it is conflict Everyone is talking about the film itself, not the movie.

Apparently, Lively and her co-stars were at odds with star and director Justin Baldoni. Baldoni and Lively It is said that They could not get along, and it was said that he “Fat shamingShe asked someone how heavy Lively was — one of their scenes required him to lift her up, and he was worried about hurting his back. Rumor has it, he wasn’t too fond of Lively inviting her husband, Ryan Reynolds, to the set to direct some scenes.

But despite the amount of criticism Baldoni has received here (he even hired a Senior Crisis PR Manager Lively’s clients include Johnny Depp, but the uproar has drawn more attention to her online, as she makes her first big-screen appearance in four years. Promote To promote the film, Lively promised audiences would see her at her happiest, most girly time. Meanwhile, the actress, known for her gorgeous hair, launched a line of hair care products.

This Travel Sisterhood Stanley Cup method and Movie PlotLively’s protagonist is a budding florist named Lily Bloom who falls in love with a violent man (played by Baldoni). Lively seems to lack the care or emotional intelligence to deal with this sensitive topic, which raises questions and disgust about whether she knows what kind of movie she has made, and makes us doubt Lively herself.

Movie promotional tours aren’t an exciting business. They’re mostly actors answering the same questions from various media outlets over and over again, all in the hope that they’ll say something to entice you to go see the movie they’re promoting. The monotonous repetition of the movie promotion cycle is exactly what Lively and it’s all overThis unusual tour was very eye-catching.

First, Lively and director and co-star Baldoni have been promoting the film separately—a very strange thing for the protagonists to do. They are also giving these interviews, as my colleague Kyndall Cunningham Detailsfollowed by a series of rumors about the two having a falling out on the set.

But Lively’s comments during the film’s promotion also attracted attention. In a video clip promoting the film on TikTok, Lively said “Bring your friends, put on your flowery clothes, and go out and have a look!”

In addition to Lively’s wisecracks about a girls’ night out watching intimate partner abuse, she’s also been promoting her new line of hair care products Blake Brown and her beverage company, Betty Buzz. She uses Red Carpet Keep the public’s attention on her husband’s new movie, a violent and profanity-filled Marvel blockbuster Deadpool and Wolverinewhile giving Reynolds — rather than screenwriter Christy Hall or writer Colleen Hoover — Credit Because he wrote the film’s “iconic” rooftop scene.

A promotional video shows her giggling with Co-stars talk about their zodiac signswhile the other Lively talk about wearing your own clothes in the film — a move that seemed to be related to Lively styling one of her co-stars on the film’s red carpet. During an interview, a reporter who was clearly familiar with the film’s sensitive subject matter asked her how the film had inspired people to reach out to her and speak about abuse. Lively dismissed it flippantly. The question was a joke, assuming she wasn’t sharing her location or phone number with these fans, as many hoped, to promote Domestic Violence Services.

Lively’s critics have pointed out that Lively framed her film as a celebratory girls’ night out, but the actual content is disconnected from the film, which features a woman suffering from violence at the hands of her partner. Wearing flowers and getting the girls together to watch a woman being physically abused by her partner seems like a strange digression at best and extremely insensitive or disconnected from the subject matter of the film at worst. Either Lively doesn’t fully understand the subject matter of the film she’s making, or she understands it and is using it to sell her work.

Although the tabloid TMZ reported that Amid the PR war between Lively and Baldoni behind the scenes, some of this backlash came entirely from Lively, who alone answered these questions in the way she chose.

When actors have these moments where they no longer seem to be acting like the fun, nice people they are, it often makes the general public wonder if these celebrities have always been that way, or if they are exhibiting some unusual behavior. Lively rose to fame playing the wealthy, carefree Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl, and in many ways the character’s charismatic but selfish persona merged with her own. During her break from filmmaking, she was best known for her relationship with Reynolds, but perhaps even more notable was her relationship with Taylor SwiftAs one commentator put it, this popularity may have led to “Mean Girls” vibe. Unfortunately for Lively and her image, she’s given some pretty unflattering interviews that are easily discoverable.

One of the interactions is Coffee Commune Press Conference Title on YouTube “Blake Lively’s interview made me want to quit.” Reporter Kersti Fraser On August 10, she uploaded a photo with Lively from 2016, right in the middle of the drama. In the video, Flaa congratulates Lively on her pregnancy, to which Lively responds passive-aggressively, saying “congratulations” to Flaa, who is not pregnant yet. (Lively had confirmed her pregnancy to the media before interacting with Flaa.) She and co-star Parker Posey barely made eye contact with Flaa after Lively’s quip, and Lively proceeded to either ignore or react violently to Flaa’s questions about the movie, all but pretending that Flaa wasn’t in the room.

At the same press conference, Lively also said Coffee Commune Director Woody Allen was actually great. Ronan Farrow Lively, who recently wrote an op-ed in The Hollywood Reporter criticizing the film industry’s response to his sister Dylan Farrow’s allegations of sexual assault against her father, said when asked about Allen. explain: “I can only know my experience. And my experience with Woody is that he empowers women.”

Going back further, critics say Lively made a mistake in its first foray into lifestyle branding. Back in 2014, Lively created a digital lifestyle and e-commerce site called Preserve. One of its first ads was titled “Antebellum Charm”, putting the site’s name in a certain light. The shoot is a romanticized version of the antebellum South that fails to address the reality that these lovely costumes are rooted in the era of slavery. It’s also worth noting that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, were 2012 Plantation, South Carolina (She later apologized), which may speak to Lively’s fascination with the antebellum aesthetic—even though the actor was born and raised in Los Angeles. (Reynolds, on the other hand, is known to be Canadian.)

Lively Conservation Area Lasted about a year.

It’s not hard to see that Lively praises Woody Allen for being kind to women, Lively is clearly mean to reporters, and Lively uses flippant ways on television to gloss over the immense trauma and pain of slavery. Ending with the United States While it’s not easy to become famous when every word you say is recorded, especially the words you regret, this behavior fits a pattern Lively has exhibited before.

Perhaps more telling of the mess is the realization that Lively and her husband have become increasingly interested in the business side of their acting careers, perhaps even more so than the acting itself.

In addition to Lively’s hair care line, sparkling water line and upcoming fashion forays, Reynolds has invested in and served as a spokesperson for a number of companies. Mint MobileWelsh football club Wrexhamand until recently, held Aviation GinHe was even the CEO of a marketing company aptly called Do your bestLively and Reynolds are probably more talented at marketing their lifestyles and fame than they are at acting. For many people, drinking the same wine as Ryan Reynolds and having the same haircut as Blake Lively is more desirable than watching a Ryan Reynolds or Blake Lively movie.

When the film is clearly secondary to the personal brand, as we saw on Lively and it’s all overtheir films became commercials, a channel to further promote their brands and themselves. it’s all over At the press conference, Lively not only talked about Reynolds tinkers The script, as well as the footage from the film, and the introduction of Deadpool and Wolverine Editor Shane Reid The ads served as cross-promotion to promote her husband’s films and his credibility as a director and actor.

and it’s all overLively was faced with a high-profile movie that her brand probably didn’t want to be associated with. There was a disagreement between Blake Lively the brand and Blake Lively the actor. In this case, the brand won out; Lively chose to put her efforts into building the brand. Unfortunately for the brand, it’s Blake Lively’s movie — and her complicated image — that we can’t stop talking about.