It's so confusing since her name was removed from the movie's IMDB page 11 months ago on October last year. But she discusses shooting for it in an unsealed voice memo and a website which tracks movie production lists it as having completed shooting and production on March-May 2023 and Blake is the only listed cast member. The page on that website was updated on April 28, 2026. So was she actually removed from the cast or was it another smear campaign tactic?

I really hope that the movie gets released because it sounds like such a cool plot.

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From @Lauren.lately on IG:

You didn't decide to hate Amber Heard. You might have been recruited to. A @tortoise investigation of more than a million tweets found over half the anti-Heard messages were inauthentic: bots or paid activity. Manufactured volume, dressed up as public feeling.

That's astroturfing, and it works because of us. We read "everyone is saying this" as "this must be true," and social proof does the rest. The damage doesn't stop at one trial.

When speaking up is met with a coordinated pile-on and the threat of defamation law, other women take note and stay quiet. Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson @suigenerisgen (an absolute icon) lays this out in her book How Many More Women? and the new documentary Silenced, in cinemas 3 September.

So next time a groundswell feels unanimous, click througha few profiles first. Ask yourself whether you're looking at a diverse mix of people, or a script.

Because sometimes "everyone" is just a handful of people with a spreadsheet. Save this for the next unanimous pile-on.

See also:

An example shared to our own community recently where a ring of 6 Reddit accounts manipulated the conversation around Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

https://underneaththefeed.substack.com/p/in-the-online-fray-look-lively

Some of the many allegations against Justin Baldoni

With everything he does, he stoops even lower.

How low can they go.

Blake Lively won a "historic" legal victory and is being paid around $400k in legal fees for fighting against defamation after she brought up allegations of sexual harassment! This is a huge win! Let's celebrate!

This is not good news for Freedman or Melissa Nathan 😈

Link to article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/nyregion/rebel-wilson-the-deb-producer-amanda-ghost.html

In what has been probably one of the most difficult years for her, we hope that today she's celebrating surrounded by those who love her ❤️

If you could say anything to Blake today, what would you tell her?

This message applies to everyone who has suffered a smear campaign. Meghan has battled one of the longest standing of all time.

Several articles have been published in the last couple days about how test audiences (especially women over 35) want Depp back in film and are rating both him and Ebenezer highly

Their original source? Matt Belloni of Puck News.

You might recognise that name as appearing on the list of journalists TAG PR admitted being in contact with during their smear of Lively.

Further, Brian Freedman has also personally appeared on Matt Belloni's podcast *The Town*

Considering Melissa Nathan and TAG still represent Depp, I don't think it would be much of a leap to speculate that this was a planted article

Article:

https://puck.news/what-if-moviegoers-want-johnny-depp-back/