Most Americas are probably familiar with friendly co-workers letting them know that they’re helping their kids sell Girl Scout Cookies or raise money for their schools and other worthy causes. But it sounds like the crew for Blake Lively’s film “It Ends With Us” faced a unique form of pressure to part ways with their cash when Lively, the film’s star and producer, let some of her four young children come onto the set and set up a booth to raise money for “sick kids and horses,” the Daily Mail is reporting. While it may sound sweet that Lively let her young children set up a fundraising booth, the solicitation effort actually came off as “tone deaf,” according to a film-set insider who spoke to the Daily Mail.
The crew for “It Ends With Us” was coming back to work for the first time in months after strikes by writers and actors had shut down many film and TV productions for much of 2023. The insider said not getting steady paychecks for a long period of time had left some crew members dipping into their 401ks to get by. Some were at risk of losing their homes.
“There’s nothing bad about having your kids be a part of your workplace, or having your kids be interested in activism,” the insider told the Daily Mail. But the insider felt that the manner in which Lively handled the situation was “insulting and performative.” Given her status on the production — probably as No.
1 on the call sheet — it’s also likely that the crew felt they had to .