Brett Cooper

Sie hatte keine Autonomie oder Autorität auf dem Set.

Gib mir eine Pause.

Gib mir eine Pause.

Der Judge geht weiter und sagt, dass sie nicht nur die kontraktuelle Kontrolle über ihre Partizipation in dem Film reservierte, sondern sie exercisierte diese Kontrolle.

The court need not rely on her statement in the PG letter that she, quote, produced every moment of this film to see that her role far exceeded that of a traditional employee.

She played a part in the hiring and firing of assistants.

She negotiated for the relocation of the film to be closer to home.

She rewrote the script.

She conducted meetings with all department heads.

She oversaw a team of editors.

She played a central part in shaping the film's look and marketing and release.

Sorry, I know that that was a lot of me reading, which I think maybe sometimes can get boring, but I think it's important because what Judge Lehman is saying there is that even if

Your sexual harassment claims had legs, which they don't, you don't have a case because you were not an employee.

As you so brilliantly laid out in your letter to the PGA bragging about how you were in charge of every single thing in the production.

A Redditor was posting about this and said, there is an obvious irony in writing a detailed self-promotional document arguing that you controlled everything about a film's production and then that document becoming Exhibit A in an order explaining why you don't qualify for employment protections.

You can be the most powerful person in the room

So, again, mic drop from Judge Lehman.

Now I think all of this goes to show, yet again, that this case, these claims and allegations, were more about power and maybe revenge than anything else.

Like, I don't know if she felt slighted, when that happened, what happened, if she just wanted the movie like we've talked about before, but somewhere along the line, Blake and by proxy Ryan and Taylor Swift and all of her other dragons began to conspire, we know this now, thanks to text, they were conspiring on how they could take down Justin and take over the film and possibly more importantly, take over the rest of the franchise that he has an option for, that his company has legally

In public eye, through her New York Times article and through the court system, she was painting herself as the victim.