Major spoilers for It Ends With Us and the book It Starts With Us are ahead! If you want to see the movie, it’s in theaters now, and you can buy both of Colleen Hoover’s novels about Lily Bloom wherever you get your books. A major symbol in It Ends With Us is an open heart. It is a sign of Atlas and Lily’s young love, because when they were teens, Atlas carved it out of wood for her, and later on Lily got it tattooed on her collarbone.
This tattoo is also where Ryle bit her during his most violent moment, clouding the pure story behind it. However, Atlas never knows about it in that first book by Colleen Hoover, he finds out about it in the sequel novel, It Starts With Us . That all changed though in the film that recently premiered on the 2024 movie schedule , and Hoover told us how she felt about it.
In the film adaptation of It Ends With Us , Brandon Sklenar's Atlas took Blake Lively ’s Lily to the hospital, as he did in the book, after Ryle bit her. While there, he noticed her tattoo. It's a touching scene in the film.
However, as a book fan, it was shocking, because this revelation of the tattoo with the scars around it is integral to the second novel as it eventually leads to Atlas and Lily’s first kiss as adults. So, when I interviewed Colleen Hoover and Brandon Sklenar about It Ends With Us for CinemaBlend , I had to ask about this massive change. In response, the author told me why it left her “a little jarred” at first.
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