“It Ends With Us.”“If you’re taking on the responsibility of telling the story about a woman in a domestic violence situation, you have to be respectful that you’re representing millions and millions of women and men who are victims of domestic violence,” McCain said on Wednesday’s episode of her “Citizen McCain” podcast. “I was very surprised at some of her responses,” she added.Lively has been criticized for failing to discuss the film’s domestic violence theme and instead promoting her new hair care line, Blake Brown Beauty, and her floral fashions.In one viral clip from one of her interviews, Lively told fans to “grab your friends and wear your florals” and go see the movie, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book.“I think the tone she’s setting in a lot of the press with this, saying, put on your florals and come together girls,” McCain said while criticizing Lively.“I haven’t read the book either,” the Republican blogger continued. “I didn’t know this is about domestic violence until this press tour.
I don’t want to put florals on and go with my girlfriends and go watch a fun girl movie about domestic violence. I think that’s very insensitive and very, quite frankly, strange.”McCain went on about Lively, “I don’t understand why she’s famous other than ‘Gossip Girl’ and married to Ryan Reynolds.
I can’t actually think of any movies she’s been in or projects she’s worked in.”The former “The View” host said said that Lively is “in such a high-level privilege situation” as “a beautiful blonde white woman,” and that the actress “might have done real damage to her career” based on the extreme backlash towards her handling of the film’s promotion.“That doesn’t mean that she’s going to go away,” McCain added,.
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