Warning: This story contains spoilers for It Ends With Us . Justin Baldoni is hoping fans will take a ride with him on the EAC. With his new movie It Ends With Us out in theaters, the director and star is revealing some of the Easter Eggs he included in the film—which costars Blake Lively , Brandon Sklenar , Jenny Slate and Isabela Ferrer —because, as he noted, they couldn't include everything from Colleen Hoover 's 2016 novel.
"Something that I know so many fans love from the book that didn't make it in the movie," Justin explained in an Aug. 23 Instagram video , "was the phrase ‘just keep swimming' that Lily and Atlas shared over the course of the book." The iconic phrase—which comes from Pixar's 2003 film Finding Nemo —is a mantra repeated by Ellen DeGeneres ' character Dory that becomes a motivational message between Lily (Blake) and Atlas (Brandon) in the book.
Although the line didn't make it into the film, as long as you're paying attention during It Ends With Us , you might see a few nods to the cartoon. "If you watch the movie," Justin said, "look in Lily's bedroom on her wall, there's a poster. I'm not gonna say what it's of, but you'll see a little homage to maybe the movie or the saying, if you will.
" The 40-year-old revealed that there's also a special stuffed animal in one scene, but be careful, because "if you blink, you might miss" it. (Indeed, a plushie of a clown fish appears in Lily's nursery for her baby girl, prompting one fan to note on TikTok,.