Apparently Blake and Ryan were in a booth. For an hour. And she was observed to be “getting handsy” with him. So there was a lot of knee touching then? Or does handsy mean something else in New York?
Before they could progress from handsy to tongue-y however, guess who came by for a little quality time of his own?
Oh... Harvey Weinstein.
According to WWD, Weinstein – responsible for selling Blue Valentine and who has campaigned tirelessly on behalf of it seeing as he’s the distributor – interrupted Ryan and Blake and instructed Ryan to hang out with a journalist, freeing up Blake all for himself, and he took the opportunity to “cozy up” to her.
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
There’s an interesting angle developing here though. Weinstein is not above romance – real or otherwise – to push a project. Whatever works, right? So this thing that’s happening between them, Ryan and Blake, it could very well have been initiated by Harvey. He pushes Ryan towards a high profile hookup – and please, look at her, why would Ryan reject that in his bed for a few weeks? – and counsels Blake about spending more time with an A list actor instead of piddling about with her boring *** tv (ex)boyfriend who is only holding her back...