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You’ve probably heard about the upcoming movie It Ends With Us, because Blake Lively has been selling it non-stop for months. But you know who wasn’t so visual on the press tour? The other protagonist and director of the film, Justin Baldoni. Once the web spotted this, it generated a lot of hypotheses that there was or was some kind of drama behind the scenes.
To put it in context, It Ends With Us is a film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling 2016 novel. In the e-book, florist Lily Bloom (Lively) falls in love with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni), who is extraordinarily handsome but abusive and controlling. Baldoni’s production company, Wayfarer, optioned the e-book in 2019 before launching Lively, which she signed on to co-executive produce.
At some point, enthusiasts say that the dating between Baldoni and Lively has deteriorated. We’ll break down all the It Ends With Us feud rumors here, but let’s keep in mind that most of this information is highly speculative.
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“I just thought she would be an amazing Lily, so I flew to meet her,” Baldoni told reporters about the decision. “We had a three-hour assembly and, you know, at the end of the assembly, I just said, ‘You’re Lily. ‘I’d love for you to play it. ‘”
He continued, “And luckily she signed up and not just as an actress. She stepped forward as a producer and executive producer and played a major role in the entire production, and I’m so grateful that she accepted because really, I, and I’m biased, nevertheless, believe that she provides the functionality of her life in this film.
Meanwhile, Baldoni says that Colleen Hoover herself asked him to play Ryle. “It was her thought that she could do it that gave me the confidence and freedom to explore it for myself. “
While browsing through footage of the film’s New York City premiere, some TikTok creators noticed that while the rest of the cast is photographed together, it doesn’t appear that they took any photos with Baldoni. Instead, Baldoni posed on the carpet with his spouse, Emily Baldoni, and some of his friends.
Emily Baldoni and Justin Baldoni attend the New York premiere of It Ends With Us at the AMC Lincoln Square Theatre on August 6, 2024 in New York City.
Hugh Jackman, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Tammy Reynolds and Brandon Sklenar at the It Ends With Us New York City Premiere at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater on August 6, 2024 in New York City.
“I’m convinced that he and Blake don’t get along. How is it possible that there is ZERO promotion of them together and no photo at the premiere?” asked a fan in one of Baldoni’s Instagram posts. This comment segment is flooded with similar questions and reviews about the alleged drama.
Podcast co-host and Baldoni’s friend Liz Plank is also not pictured with him. Plank attended the premiere of It Ends With Us and talked about it on her Instagram Stories. However, she did not pose for photos with Baldoni or tag him in any of his posts. Additionally, they haven’t released a new episode of his podcast, Man Enough, since mid-June.
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Colleen Hoover, from the book Lively, It Ends With Us, Jenny Slate and Brandon Sklenar don’t seem to stick with Baldoni on Instagram.
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When asked how it felt to have Baldoni as a co-star and director, Slate turned around and said that it was “hard work” to do both at the same time, and that she herself wouldn’t need to work two jobs. in the cinema at the same time.
Meanwhile, Lively appeared to dodge a question about building with Baldoni as a spouse in a Yahoo!Entertainment posted to TikTok on August 9. ” I mean, this movie was a big challenge because you have deeply painful feelings. “”Physical, traumatic scenes, but you also have scenes that are full of lightness and light and romance,” Lively said. “And normally, when I see this kind of character like Ryle on screen, you know what’s going to happen. “, and you’re like, ‘Oh, this guy’s full of red flags. ‘”
He continued, “But I think the way Colleen wrote Ryle is just. . . I think that’s why the story resonates with so many people, it’s [because] you understand why Lily stays. You understand why Lily chooses to do it in another truth because you’re also seeing it in real time and you say, “I know what I just saw, but I don’t need to know. . . maybe it’s not necessary. ” I don’t quite realize that. “That’s the magic of this movie, that’s how she made those characters so appealing.
Several viewers in the comments described Lively’s reaction as “wild,” given that she didn’t mention Baldoni at all in her reaction.
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Isabelle Ferrer, who plays a younger version of Lily Bloom, also seemed to forget Baldoni’s call during an interview, although her example is a little less clear. She and Lively have a similar mole on their cheeks, which Ferrer, according to her “director,” first believed was fake.
“Even in my directing session, my director asked me if the logo was real,” he told MTV United Kingdom. “And I said, ‘The mark? You mean my mole?’I was like, ‘What do you mean by the logo?'”I have my tattoo. “
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Some enthusiasts were baffled by the word “my director,” while others felt theirs was disrespectful. One fan commented, “It provides a bad woman vibe. ” Justin Baldoni is the film’s director and lead actor. He is also behind the transformation of the novel into a film. Say his name.
Well, Blake Lively (who serves as co-executive producer of the project) recently revealed that Reynolds wrote a very important scene for the film. “The iconic rooftop scene, it was written by my spouse,” Lively told E!News. ” Nobody knows you now. ” She continued, “He paints everything I do. I paint about everything he does. So your victories, your celebrations are mine and mine are yours.
This led many enthusiasts to speculate that Reynolds and Lively may have taken artistic part in the film, much to Baldoni’s dismay.
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“You literally can’t convince me that Ryan Reynolds is rarely the reason for this total Justin Baldoni/It Ends With Us drama, and I feel like Justin needs nothing to do with the drama, and for that reason, he decided to take a step back from the PR occasions that preceded the movie,” Arianna Lillie, a pop culture TikToker, said in a video. “And I’m not saying Blake Lively in particular was a problem, but I knew everything that was going on. the moment I heard that Ryan Reynolds came in and rewrote scenes from a movie that Justin Baldoni not only stars in, but also directs, and that’s the only explanation for why this task is coming to fruition.
The TikTok user noted that Reynolds interviewed Lively’s other love interest in the film and stated that he’s looking to make Deadpool and It Ends With Us “the next Barbenheimer,” adding, “Turns out Justin gets kicked out of this whole situation, which which is Honestly, a little unhappy because I was so excited about the whole thing from the beginning.
In an interview with People in April, Baldoni said that “there was no component of that production that [Lively] didn’t touch that she hadn’t had influence on,” adding, “everything that was given to her and what she had ideas about, she got better.
It turns out that she proved it in an interview with Variety. “It’s very important to me to paint off-camera,” Lively told Variety on Aug. 6. “The paintings I did as a producer are much more difficult than anything else I did. “to play Lily. I just did everything. There’s nothing I haven’t mentioned in this movie.
Meanwhile, Lively’s reaction to Baldoni fuels speculation.
At the premiere, Baldoni hinted that he didn’t need to direct the potential sequel to the film based on Hoover’s novel, It Starts With Us. “I think there are better people for that,” he told Entertainment Tonight at the New York premiere on Aug. 6, according to People. “I think Blake Lively is in a position to direct, that’s what I think. “
Meanwhile, in Lively’s interview with Vogue, she paused when asked about her own interest in writing, wondering why the interviewer brought up the topic. Then, when asked if she’d be interested in writing a script from scratch, here’s what she said: “A blank page isn’t as exciting to me as starting with a script and locating something that other people have overlooked. Say no, no, there’s something there! For me, it’s a treasure hunt. And then, when I can see the treasure, then I, as an archaeologist, can excavate it, locate it, and show other people its value. . For me, that’s what I like.
The actor burned the love of his spouse Blake Lively in the movie, as we do.
While many enthusiasts recommend that Baldoni’s isolation may simply be a public relations ploy to remind the audience that his character is the “villain” of the story, others are convinced, given that he is also the film’s director and it is strange. Baldoni will have to accept.
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One TikTok user also described some moments from Lively and Reynolds’ press tour as “tone-deaf,” given the dark themes of the e-book and film, and this is rarely the first time It Ends With Us has done so. in the face of this criticism. In January 2023, Hoover and Atria Books were accused of “romanticizing” domestic violence when a coloring book based on the bestseller was announced. Atria ultimately did not go ahead with this project.
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“When are you going to start talking about emotional and domestic abuse on a date and raising awareness about it?” one user commented on a video of the female cast members and Colleen Hoover, which was posted on Lively’s Instagram feed. It’s cute, but there’s a deeper meaning to this movie. “Another added, “Where’s Justin in all of this?
“Am I the only one who sees that [Lively] is selling stuff on his call and still talks about the actual subject of the book?? “, commented one user on Lively’s Instagram post selling her beverage company in collaboration with It Ends With Us.
Meanwhile, many of Baldoni’s interviews are heavily aimed at describing abuse in the film. “I need men to go to the movies and see, in a way, an edition of themselves,” he said in an interview with CBS News. I have two very different characters. Both Atlas and Ryle have suffered trauma in the past. One handles the scenario a lot more than the other, and my other hope is that the men who haven’t done the paintings, who haven’t done the paintings to heal, if they see fragments of themselves in Ryle, have the ability to step back and say, ‘You know what?I don’t need to waste my life, I don’t need to harm the user I love the most. ‘”
Unofficially, publications are beginning to share conflicting reports about the alleged breakup. On August 9, Page Six reported that “multiple sources” claimed that Baldoni had made Lively “uncomfortable” on set and had created an “extremely difficult” painting environment for the entire cast.
Meanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter’s report suggests that the alleged “fracture” occurred after the filming of the film. According to multiple sources, Lively commissioned editor Shane Reid, who was editor of Deadpool, to edit the film.
The report continues: “An insider downplayed any friction, noting that it is not unusual for a film to have multiple edits in post-production, adding that the team agreed on the final cut. “
Then, on August 12, another anonymous source showed the claims reported through Page Six and told People that there was much more on stage than a dispute over artistic differences. “All is not as it seems,” the source said. There is much more to this story. The main cast and [author] Colleen Hoover will have nothing to do with him. “
Baldoni responded to the complaint that Ends With Us “glorifies” domestic violence, however, by saying that critics “are absolutely entitled to that view, and it makes perfect sense why they would feel that way. “
In particular, the film’s press tour sparked online discussions.
He continued, “Look, we live in a culture where, unfortunately, too many things are glorified. And we struggle to get attention, we are in an attention economy. We’re in a world of global clickbait and everyone is looking to figure out how to get attention. Look at the news cycle – it’s all around us, so it makes perfect sense for other people to feel this way.
“Also, if anyone has enjoyed this true experience [of domestic violence], I can believe how complicated it would be to believe their experience in a romance novel,” she said. “I would just tell you that we were very intentional. ” in making this movie. “
Well, we don’t really know, however, many enthusiasts are aligning themselves with Baldoni. “I would possibly not go beyond seeing this if Justin is bullied,” one user commented on Baldoni’s Instagram, while another added: “I’m heartbroken ? to see you all separated. So sad that whatever the challenge, it can’t be communicated and solved behind closed doors for the sake of the film. I mean, he produced it. No one thanks him.
While it’s conceivable that enthusiasts are right about the divide between Baldoni and Lively, it’s vital to note how society temporarily tends to turn against women in those situations. Remember what happened with Don’t Worry Darling? Perhaps we deserve to wait for more data before jumping to conclusions.
It will be interesting to see if Lively and Baldoni respond to those rumors as the press tour continues. We will keep you informed.
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