The recent promotional run for It Ends With Us has centered around two distinct points: the flowery, bright marketing elements directly contrasting the gravity of the film’s narrative of abuse , and Blake Lively standing strongly beside her character, Lily Blossom Bloom, amid cast drama . In a recent interview with BBC News, the actress married these two elements in defense of the film. Sharing the red carpet clip to her Instagram Story, Lively wrote: “Thank you to everyone who came to show that people WANT to see films about women, and the multitudes we hold.
‘ It Ends With Us ‘ is a story of the female experience.” “The movie covers domestic violence, but what’s important about this film is that she is not just a survivor and she’s not just a victim,” she said in the clip. “And while those are huge things to be, they’re not her identity.
She’s not defined by something that someone else did to her or an event that happened to her, even if it’s multiple events.” The remainder of Lively’s Instagram Story post defends It Ends With Us as a complex reflection of womanhood. “It Ends With Us is a story of the female experience.
All the highest highs, and lowest lows. And we are so proud of it,” she wrote. “We have been in celebration of this film and of getting a message so important out there to the masses.
” About an hour after sharing the interview on her Story, the actress followed it up with contact information for the National Domestic Vio.