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Blake Lively was, based on one assistant director, a terror on set.
Not on the set of It Ends With Us, the movie that led to a authorized battle with producer, star, and director Justin Baldoni. This allegedly occurred on one other challenge.
However, the declare about her on-set conduct is clearly popping out as a part of the fallout from that battle.
The assistant director accuses Lively of getting decreased her to tears — citing her as the rationale that she give up the challenge.
This Blake Lively accusation dates again to ‘A Simple Favor’
Back in 2018, Barbara Szeman labored as an assistant director on A Simple Favor, which starred Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.
Another Simple Favor — a sequel — comes out quickly. Henry Golding’s Instagram put up on the topic is the place the accusation got here to mild.
In a reply, Szeman wrote: “I worked with you on the first one. My experience with everyone was absolutely amazing, except for a certain someone who is the reason I quit being an AD. Guess who that person is. …”
Szeman didn’t identify Blake Lively (or anybody else) in that obscure put up. Instead, she merely concluded: “I wish you all the best with this though!”
After including that dramatic tease within the remark, Szeman elaborated. She claimed that she had hoped to “avoid” drawing consideration — and alleged that the actress in query had been “cruel to many.”
Szeman alleged: “I know I cried my way home many nights because you try so hard to please someone who is never pleased and puts you down constantly. I can’t believe it’s actually getting back at her. Karma is real.”
Others have loved working with Blake Lively
Barbara Szeman then responded on her Facebook web page to the large upswell of consideration that her snarky — however maybe cathartic — reply had obtained.
“Last time I leave a comment on an Instagram post,” she expressed.
When requested about how many individuals have described Blake Lively as being “nice and lovely to work with,” Szeman acknowledged: “Maybe for them. Not for me.”
Another commenter wrote: “I’ve been thinking about you and this whole situation because you told me the stories so long ago. It’s good that you commented.”
Szeman responded to that put up with a “love” response.
That Facebook put up is not publicly accessible. One should infer that Szeman relearned the lesson of publicly seen social media commentary on controversial, polarizing subjects involving A-list celebrities.
What ought to we make of this?
If Barbara Szeman has some kind of motive to manufacture a narrative of Blake Lively being “mean,” we have no idea of 1. In truth, it appears that evidently she regrets saying something in any respect as a result of public consideration.
It is definitely very regular for individuals to dislike working collectively. Sometimes, two professionals merely don’t vibe. They can have totally different communication types, totally different requirements, and conflict with out both celebration being “bad.”
That mentioned … typically, on a selected day or past, an individual could be an disagreeable coworker. Even disagreeable sufficient to drive somebody to give up.
We don’t know what issues have been like between Blake Lively and Barbara Szeman on that movie set. But we do know that this doubtless has no actual bearing on the state of affairs with Justin Baldoni … besides, after all, that it’s unhealthy PR for Blake.