{"id":72713,"date":"2025-05-03T06:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=72713"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:21:57","slug":"director-paul-feig-shuts-down-rumors-about-blake-livelys-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/director-paul-feig-shuts-down-rumors-about-blake-livelys-behavior\/72713\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Paul Feig shuts down rumors about Blake Lively\u2019s behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"497\">Director Paul Feig is openly standing behind Blake Lively amid the ongoing online chatter about her legal battle with Justin Baldoni and rumors swirling around the making of the film <em data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"305\">Another Simple Favor<\/em>. In a recent interview with <em data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"343\">Esquire<\/em>, Feig praised Lively\u2019s work ethic and professionalism while also addressing some of the misunderstandings people have about how movies actually get made.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"789\">Feig described Blake as an \u201camazing collaborator\u201d and expressed his frustration that so many people don\u2019t really understand the filmmaking process. He also took a jab at the online outrage culture, pointing out that a lot of the anger people show on social media is misplaced or uninformed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"1187\">\u201cOutrage is honestly the most boring emotion these days,\u201d Feig told <em data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"868\">Esquire<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s great when people get fired up about something important. But these days, people seem to get angry about everything. Like, seriously \u2014 is this what you\u2019re upset about? There are way bigger problems in the world. If you\u2019re going to be angry, go do something good with that energy and help make the world better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1388\">His comments come after months of speculation about Blake\u2019s legal dispute with Justin Baldoni, who co-starred in and directed <em data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1332\">It Ends With Us<\/em>, a film adaptation of the popular Colleen Hoover novel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1673\">Back in December, Blake Lively filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment during the filming of <em data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1560\">It Ends With Us<\/em>. She also claimed that Baldoni started a smear campaign against her just before the film was released in August.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1675\" data-end=\"1998\">Following those allegations, Baldoni filed a lawsuit against <em data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1756\">The New York Times<\/em>, Blake Lively, and her husband Ryan Reynolds. The case has attracted a lot of public and media attention, but many people in Hollywood have chosen to stay quiet about it. Not Paul Feig, though\u2014he has consistently shown his support for Blake.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2415\">Feig has worked closely with Lively on both <em data-start=\"2044\" data-end=\"2060\">A Simple Favor<\/em> movies, and he\u2019s been very vocal about his respect for her. In December, he posted on X (formerly Twitter), saying, \u201cAll I can say is she\u2019s one of the most professional, creative, collaborative, talented and kind people I\u2019ve ever worked with. She truly did not deserve any of this smear campaign against her. I think it\u2019s awful she was put through this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Paul Feig is openly standing behind Blake Lively amid the ongoing online chatter about her legal battle with Justin\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":72714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[20185],"class_list":["post-72713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-paul-feig"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}