Danny (71:52)
So what happened was a lot of things seem to be, like, weird on set with Justin Baldoni. And I'll. I'll agree with that. I think he was a little unprofessional. I think he said things he probably shouldn't, said anything that he should be, like, sued for. I don't know. I don't think so. I think he was just kind of like a creeper weirdo. And I don't know what his religion is, but I think that Blake was, like, kind of creeped out by his religion and she kind of felt like he was in a cult. And I think it was like his first experience doing such a big project that there's probably some mistakes that were made. And Blake is very experienced. She's very, like a feminist. Like, she's very strong willed. She's probably an 8 on the Enneagram where she's like, I'm gonna take. Take over and just like, do what I want. And so I think just naturally the personalities clashed. And so she had a very poor experience working with Justin Baldoni. And she kind of like, she calls him all these horrible names, like a clown. He's a douche. She's the worst. He's a narcissist. And you know, those things might be true, who knows? But at the end of the day, there were these two edits that were being done. So Justin, he purchased the rights for this movie. Like, for five years he was working on trying to get this movie. He worked with the financiers. He's the one who, like, this is his movie. He's directing, he's acting in it. Like his movie. Blake was just cast as, like, an actress. This is not her movie. She doesn't own it. Nothing. So. But while they're filming, Justin starts to feel like Blake is trying to take over his project and. And trying to in kind of starting to step on his toes. So he probably felt disrespected anyway. At the end of the day, Justin House has this edit of the movie that he's submitting to Sony. And then Blake, 10 days before the edit is due, takes all the footage and edits her own, which she's not really. Like, that's really not fair. Like, she doesn't own the rights to the footage. Like, it's like. But she just steps in because she. I'm sure she wants the movie to be great, so she edits her own version. So they submit them to, I guess, Sony, and they do, like, an audience test. Like, you get an audit. Audience score. And Justin Baldoni's version edit won by, like, a landslide. So people liked Justin's movie better, which really pissed off Blake. So Blake wrote all these emails and text messages to all of her celebrity friends. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Taylor Swift. Did I say Ben Affleck? Yep. And included their wives and wrote these pretty lengthy, kind of manipulative emails and text messages asking them to, like, basically back her edit and not Justin's. And now he's a total joke. And this has been a nightmare. It's been the worst experience of her life. So I guess they released all these. These text messages to show that she was distressed and she was, like, annoyed. But to me, they didn't really, like, prove anything, except for you have famous friends that you're trying to manipulate, and, like, you're also kind of a mean girl. So the exchanges with Taylor and Blake Lively were funny to me. Like, Taylor Swift does call him the B word. But, like, you know, you go to bat for your best friend. Like, if Ellie were to come to me and be like, this person was mean to me, I'd be like, what's their address? I'll go beat him up. Like, you know, and you just kind of, like, you. You're just, like, being a supportive good friend. You're just being silly. Whatever. So Blake is going on and on and asks Taylor to come over to her. Or, like, actually, they go over to Taylor Swift's apartment with Justin Baldoni and asks if Taylor can kind of back her version. And. And. And Taylor agrees also to give one of the songs. I think it was all too well, I can't remember, to Justin so that he can use it in the movie. And Taylor and these, like, text messages or after the event, after they. They go to meet at Taylor Swift's house. Blake Lively is texting Taylor Swift and was like, wow, you were amazing tonight. Like, you did such a good job. You're such a good friend. Like, the way you were talking about different lenses was, like, so Amazing. And Taylor goes, yeah. He basically calls him a B word and was like, if he was smart, he wouldn't put my song in your. In the film. Because now you have the upper hand. Because basically Blake is the reason why Taylor let the song in, not because of Justin. And now it almost is like Justin, like, owes her something because now Blake got Taylor's song in it. So they're just being, like, manipulative little girlies. It's like, not really that bad. Nothing like that's like character destroying, in my opinion. But people are like, do have their panties in a ruffle that Taylor Swift called him a beautiful word.
