‘It's like the difference between driving a Toyota Camry and a Ferrari,’ Justin Baldoni, star of , says of working with his ‘powerhouse’ co-star on the set of the new film. ‘You know, you're acting with somebody who's a Ferrari of an actor,’ he says in a game of Ask Me Anything with ELLE UK. ‘You move a little bit and then they respond, and it really was incredible just in terms of helping me craft the performance.

She touched so many aspects of this production, and everything she touched she made better. She's so responsive and she's so reactive.’ Colleen Hoover’s 2016 smash hit novel It Ends With Us follows Lily Bloom (Lively) who is recently out of college and struggling over the death of her abusive father as she passionately falls for Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni).

But as his dark side surfaces, she finds herself trapped in a cycle of abuse reminiscent of her childhood. Amid the turmoil, her first love Atlas Corrigan, (Brandon Sklenar) reappears, reigniting old feelings and offering her a glimpse of the life she once dreamed of. Torn between a toxic present and a hopeful past, Lily must find the strength to break free and protect herself and her future.

Thanks to a rebirth on TikTok, the book outsold The Bible in 2022 and with an estimate of 30 million sales worldwide since its publication in 2016, the internet has been fiercely protective of it ever since. When Lively and Baldoni’s casting was first announced, there was fan backlash over the fact that she i.