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Things are getting worse for Blake Lively as each day passes. Lively accused co-star Justin Baldoni of workplace harassment in December and theIt Ends with Usactor responded with a counter lawsuit. He is suing Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist Leslie Sloane for $400 million.
The lawsuit claims civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and intentional interference with contractual relations. It has brought another wave of backlash against the actress online. Now, an old video of Lively has resurfaced where she admits to appropriating a Blackface.
Blake Lively’s old video shows the actress joking about Blackface
Blake Livelycan’t seem to find a break as she continues to receive backlash from all corners after Justin Baldoni’s lawsuit. Several reportscame out about her alleged difficult behaviorat various points in her career. Lively’s comments in an old video are now the talk of social media as fans find it appalling to watch the actress joking about Blackface.
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The video is a clip from Comic-Con 2006 when the actors of the filmAcceptedappeared for an MTV interview. Lively along with Justin Long and Jonah Hill talked about“geeks”in the video. Lively seems to have an argument with Long, claiming that she is a geek too. She then delves into a story to prove her point.
Lively claimed that she and her friend once had a crush on two boys and began stalking them. She shared that they went to the arcade where the boys worked in disguise. For the disguise, she shared that they“put bronzer all over”themselves and put on a“scary spice ‘fro”. She shared,“I thought they would think I was like a Black girl.”
“i’m a geek bc one time, i did blackface! 🤪”– blake livelypic.twitter.com/qNJiWUkUYn
Fans did not find the comments in the best taste. They shared that Lively was tone-deaf in her comments, where she openly admitted to appropriating a Blackface. Fans called out her in the comments while showing support for Baldoni. Others shared that she was getting worse and worse as these videos resurfaced. Some of the fan reactions read:
Wow ! And she said Baldoni’s fault ppl don’t like herpic.twitter.com/bVo1isyr6q
Omg I just saw this on tik tok I hope he wins the case
And the fact she got married on a plantation..
Oop just tone deaf as ever
Wow she gets worse and worse
Justin Baldoniclaims in his lawsuit that Lively constantly attempted to interfere in the creative process and threw tantrums on set (via Forbes). He further shared thathe was“aggressively berated”by Ryan Reynolds, who claimed that Baldoni fat-shamed Lively during the film. Lively’s attorneys had called the earlier lawsuit“a classic tactic”to“blame the victim.”
It isn’t the first time Blake Lively has been accused of being racist
Blake Lively was earlier criticized for posting a caption,“L.A face with an Oakland booty,”which was seen as an attempt to appropriate Black culture (via Cosmopolitan). In another incident, a blog written by the actress for her online magazine Preserve was accused of being racist.
The article titled“The Allure of Antebellum”spoke supportively about the gracious, but slave-owning, Southern belles in the pre-Civil War times (via Vox). Most interesting of all, Lively andRyan Reynoldshad to apologize for their wedding venue, which happened to be a previous plantation.
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Reynolds claimed that he found the seemingly beautiful wedding venue on Pinterest. It was the mansion featured in the 2004 hit romantic movieThe Notebook, located in the Boone Hall Plantation. However, the place was infamous for housing a cluster of nine original slave cabins known as Slave Street.
Reynolds apologized for choosing a random wedding venue on Pinterest without digging into its past.The Adam Projectactor later stated they had another event at home and regretted the mistake. He shared in an interview withFast Company:
A giant fking mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action. It doesn’t mean you won’t fk up again. But re-patterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end.
Lively also issued an apology to her fans. She wrote on herInstagram,“We’re ashamed that in the past we’ve allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is.”However, fans might not be ready to let go of her ignorant past in light of the recent drama.
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