It Ends With Us director and star Justin Baldoni knows there are some fan-favorite moments from the book that aren’t in the film adaptation, and he did his best to make up for that. “Something that I know so many fans love from the book that didn’t make it in the movie was the phrase ‘just keep swimming’ that Lily ( Blake Lively ) and Atlas ( Brandon Sklenar ) shared over the course of the book,” Baldoni, 40, who plays Ryle Kincaid, explained in a promotional video shared via the official It Ends With Us Instagram page on Friday, August 23. “If you watch the movie, look in Lily’s bedroom on her wall, there’s a poster.
I’m not gonna say what it’s [a poster] of, but you’ll see a little homage to maybe the movie or the saying, if you will.” Baldoni went on to share more nods to “just keep swimming” that fans of the Colleen Hoover novel should look for in the film, which hit theaters on August 9. “There’s also a stuffed animal that if you blink, you might miss, but I think you’ll get it,” he said.
“And then when Lily reconnects with Atlas for the first time at Root restaurant, right by the bathroom, if you look in between them, there is a frame on the wall with a very similar saying to [just keep swimming].” “Just keep swimming” is a quote from the film Finding Nemo , and a poster for the Pixar movie and a plushie of the titular clownfish can both be spotted in It Ends With Us . When Lily and Atlas meet up at the restaurant Root (rena.