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Meanwhile, many of Baldoni’s interviews are heavily focused on the film’s depiction of abuse. “I want men to go to the theater and in some ways see a version of themselves,” he said in one interview with CBS News. “You have two very different characters. Both of them in Atlas and Ryle have had past trauma. One handles it very different than the other, and my other hope is the men who have not done the work, who have not done the work to heal, if they see bits of themselves in Ryle, have a chance to step back and say, ‘You know what, I don’t want to blow up my life. I don’t want to hurt the person I love the most.’”
Has anyone involved in the film actually commented on the rumors?
Not officially, though publications are starting to share conflicting reports about the alleged rift. On August 9, Page Six reported that “multiple sources” claim Baldoni made Lively “uncomfortable” on set and created an “extremely difficult” working environment for the entire cast.
Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter's report suggests the alleged “fracture” occurred after the movie was filmed. “According to multiple sources, Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reid, who was an editor on Deadpool & Wolverine, and who cut the Lively-directed music video for Taylor Swift’s ‘I Bet You Think About Me,’” the publication reported. “It’s unclear if any of this cut was ultimately used in the final project, which was credited to editors Oona Flaherty and Robb Sullivan.”
The report continued, “One insider played down any friction, noting that it is not uncommon for a film to have several cuts emerge during post, adding that the team was in agreement on the final cut.”
Baldoni has, however, responded to criticism that It Ends With Us “glorifies” domestic violence, saying critics are “are absolutely entitled to that opinion, and it makes perfect sense as to why they would feel that way.”
He continued, “Look, we live in a culture where, unfortunately, too many things are glorified. And we are fighting for attention, we're in an attention economy. We’re in a clickbait world and everyone is trying to figure out how to gather attention. Look at the news cycle—it’s everywhere around us and so it makes perfect sense that people would feel that way.”
“Also, if anybody has had that real-life [domestic violence] experience, I can imagine how hard it would be to imagine their experience being in a romance novel,” he said. “To them I would just offer that we were very intentional in the making of this movie.”
So what’s going on, exactly?
Well, we don’t actually know—but many fans are aligning themselves with Baldoni. “I am not gonna go see this if they are bullying Justin,” one user commented on Baldoni’s Instagram, while another added, “I’m so heartbroken 💔 to see them all apart. So sad that whatever the issue is it cannot be communicated and fixed behind closed doors for the sake of the movie. I mean he produced it. No one is thanking him.”
