Blake Lively and Jenny Slate opened up about their most emotional scene together in their new movie It Ends With Us. The costars appeared in an exclusive interview with People magazine and broke down their most emotional yet key moment of the film. The film is the big-screen adaptation of Collen Hoover's novel, in which Lively portrays the role of Lily Bloom and Slate plays the role of Lily’s friend Allysa who is also the sister of Ryle (Justin Baldoni) with whom Lily embarks on a toxic relationship.
Lily and Allysa have a scene near the end of the film in which Allysa supports Lively’s character and tells her not to go back to the toxic relationship "You made it so easy. I just watched you," Lively told Slate during the interview. Lively went on to say, "I was like .
.. 'I'm not going to be emotional.
We've had so much emotion, I'm just going to play it quite stoic.' Then she comes on and I was like— I had snot pouring, full snot! [I was] really trying to hold it in as much as possible." "For both of us," Slate said adding, "there was an authentic connection where you know you are a character but you're able to use looking at the other person and really seeing the content of this story that she's telling me is truly taking me apart.
I didn't feel that there was any work involved in performing it." Moreover, the Gossip Girl alum admitted that she "felt so much love and trust and safety and connection with" Slate on set. Meanwhile Slate felt nervous, she said, "That's Bla.