Justin Baldoni on It Ends With Us, Intimacy Coordinators and Blake Lively | Cosmopolitan UK

Justin Baldoni plays Ryle in the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us, opposite Blake Lively as Lily. To celebrate, he sat down for an interview with Cosmopolitan UK to share the intricacies of working with a stunt and intimacy coordinator, his favourite scene to film and how he handled the pressure of directing a film with such a dedicated fan base. It Ends With Us is in UK cinemas now.

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[sxt]

The fact that he’s humbling himself enough to say he, as a man, needed to make sure he stepped to the side and allowed women to come in and guide the intimate scenes in an appropriate way speaks VOLUMES

[audreylynn]

Why is he the only one shedding light on what this movie is actually about instead of just romanticizing it all???

[Toe]

this needs more views. He’s the only one bringing the right light to this movie

[boogerlui]

Justice for Justin!! Blake is being a high school mean girl by icing him out of his own movie press tour

[ave-]

Now that's professionalism and passion in what you do. I want to see more of Justin Baldoni's work.

[nattitv]

The way he always wants authenticity and realness in his films and being super intentional about it!! ❤

[ashleyelliott]

It’s a huge strength for him to step aside and let females take over in some of the steps during the making of this movie. It’s a strength to understand that a woman’s perspective can be necessary to make a better movie. We need to applaud that. 👏🏼

[aleksandraw]

thank you for inviting Justin to do this interview

[msreal]

Starting to think he himself decided to not market with the rest of the cast, he’s too eloquent lol he’d make them look bad😭✋🏾

[RyanLopez-dpvs]

It was a great movie!! Justin is GORGEOUS looking forward on seeing him on more movies to come!! Justin did an amazing job at bringing awareness to domestic violence abuse. It's a very real and important issue !! Not a romantic movie but real life drama!!

[EclecticBlues]

He comes over as very modest and genuine, unlike some others associated with the movie.

[StardustAnnE]

Thank you for bringing him and not the rest of the cast that are behaving like some mean girls. He's the one who bought the rights of the book and the only one who tried to represent it as it was a DV movie. But now we know what Blake and Ryan did and how are trying to sink Justin's career because of their power in Hollywood and because they just wanted to cash in with this movie and ofc Put Blake on the spotlight again but guess what? She still Can't Act. And now she's behaving like a meanie and even Insert her Brand in the promotion!! 🥴🥴🥴

[agathataylor]

The good hearted always win in the end and Justin is a man of integrity. If you listen to him speak, you can piece it all together. He has said nothing but kind things about everyone. The rest just shunned him out and act like he does not exist. I only heard of this book, this movie, because of him. I admire AND respect him. I am not throwing cancel culture at Blake, but I feel like she owes some sort of statement to redeem Justin. He has WAY more following than she ever expected and she didn’t realize his fans were just as deep as him. We shared his vision. I loved her in age of Adeline. Her interviews were even different then. I’m not sure what happened here but I have hope it’s repairable.

[angelisa]

He seems like such a gem of a guy! So down to earth and sincere. Love him❤

[Dan-uo]

The rest of the cast are acting like high school mean girls ( and guys )...and clearly the unknown actors are siding with the more famous actor and her husband making a joke out of everything.

[leditee]

This man gave Blake too much credit and her head got bigger. 😂

[pinagrrrr]

Justin ❤
Discovery of the year ❤
I am afraid Reynolds/Lively hate him and will pushed him out of every oportunity he might would have

[michelleglowala]

Diva Blake is trying to ruin this man's career

[mfc]

Kinda sad he's always alone promoting what the movie is actually about, but maybe that's for the better in his case, no one can misconstrue his intentions.

[nutellasammich]

Throughout all this and everything I’ve seen, I personally feel like this is a situation where Blake; (who is obviously more famous compared to Jason) felt like she had more experience in film and maybe felt like she could take control and direct some things, and when Jason, someone who is not as popular as Blake,
would try to direct (as the director and man who purchased the rights to the book should🙄), she maybe thought she could talk over him or take control..
seems like an abuse of power difference and popularity..

Then, all the other crowd following crew and author, just sided with her because of her status

Jason is handling all this with so much class. And the way he talks positive about Blake despite whatever is going on and also shedding light to DV issues - is enough evidence to show, who the real problem was.
A director who keeps it professional. You can just tell this man is a MAN.

Blake just seems like an immature bully.