Blake Lively Versus Justin Baldoni: Dissecting The 'It Ends With Us' Legal Battles
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Last summer, we covered the dramatic press tour for the on screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover's novel It Ends With Us, digging into the speculation surrounding a beef between co-leads Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Over the Christmas break the story exploded, as Lively and Baldoni filed lawsuits detailing not just the drama but levying accusations of on set abuse, social media smear campaigns and more. In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina question whether we are on the precipice of #MeToo round two.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Iione, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. |
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| 0:31.1 | have a sub-statement called Non-Threatening Boys Asterix, where we will be sharing exclusive content |
| 0:36.1 | twice a month on The Boy of theower. Do you have any reviews, |
| 0:39.5 | Ione? We do, though we still don't have an alternative for pot for chartable, so if anyone |
| 0:45.5 | knows one. Yeah, we can't touch. But five stars, finally, I love Gina and Iione's authenticity. |
| 0:52.5 | They bring anti-capitalist critique and incisive commentary on all the |
| 0:55.7 | issues they discuss. Something I've been banging on about is how feminism needs to engage with class |
| 1:00.4 | politics in order to be radical. And these two put that into words and practice. I look to you both |
| 1:05.9 | when I need a hand making sense of how I feel about something, e.g. Kamala is brat. And love that you demonstrate how to create kind but productive conversations, not just create an exclusive echo chamber. I also just love it when you go, I don't know, or they're just gimps. This is so real. That is from Likes Dice. Thank you. Thank you. That is so nice. I know. Sometimes they are just gimpts as well. Sometimes people are just gimps. Speaking of gimps. No. What are we talking about today? Jesus Christ. Today, we are talking about the story we all thought was over. We all thought it ended. We all thought it had been left in last summer, but then the end of the |
| 1:44.7 | year, some shocking new revelations came forward. It didn't end. We were talking about the It |
| 1:50.2 | Ends With Us drama, Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni. Me and Gina tried to watch it |
| 1:56.4 | ends with us on the plane. I turned it off. Gina turned it off. I did turn it off and I think I was right to do so. |
| 2:02.6 | Well, especially now we know more. |
| 2:04.6 | And I'm psychic. You're a bit psychic, but I don't know if this contributed to her. |
| 2:08.6 | Okay, go on. |
| 2:09.5 | So before we start, obviously, trigger warning for this episode for sexual assault and sexual |
| 2:14.9 | harassment, domestic abuse, yeah, we're going to be discussing things from the lawsuit, quite frankly. |
| 2:22.6 | So if that is something that you don't listen to, tune out. |
| 2:27.9 | Let's get the timeline up. |
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