Warning: This article contains spoilers fromIt Ends With Us.
They co-parent their child for a while, as Lily takes time to heal on her own.
“And we couldn’t let that happen.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, ‘It Ends With Us’.Nicole Rivelli/Sony
Baldoni felt immense pressure to accurately depict how the difficulty in Lily’s decision to leave Ryle.
Because we have to not know what she’s going to choose.”
Portraying Lily’s experience through repressed memories was also inspired by Baldoni’s own life.
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in ‘It Ends With Us’.Nicole Rivelli/Sony
And they came suddenly, and at random times, and it really threw me.
“This is not what it’s about, but that is what inspired it.”
He says he had long conversations with the screenwriter about how to infuse that experience into Lily’s story.
Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar, ‘It Ends With Us’.Jojo Whilden/Sony
“So we wanted there to be gray areas in the movie that are not gray in the book.
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Instead of choosing one version of each scene, Baldoni chose them all.
“Which is, essentially, what ended up in the film.”
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