Justin Baldoni gushed over his It Ends with Us co-star, Blake Lively , calling her a “dynamic creative” after rumors of an on-set feud percolated online. Directed by and starring Baldoni, the new movie is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 romance , which follows Lily Bloom (Lively) as she fulfills her lifelong dream of opening a flower shop. After a chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle (Baldoni), Lily falls madly in love, and the two start a whirlwind romance.
But when Lily’s first love Atlas (Brandon Sklenar) re-enters her life, she’s left with an impossible choice. During a recent appearance on the Today show in promotion of the film, Baldoni, 40, praised Lively’s intelligence and creativity. Lively is also credited as a co-producer on the movie.
“I think she’s best known as an actress, and, of course, she’s a fashion icon, but she is so much more than that,” he said of the 36-year-old Gossip Girl alum. “She is a dynamic creative. She had her hands in every part of this production, and everything she touched made better.
” Baldoni’s laudatory comments come amid speculation that he’s been “shunned” by Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds over creative differences. On TikTok, a user named Jenna Redfield shared a video analyzing the film’s August 6 premiere, during which Lively and Baldoni did not take a picture together. Redfield pointed out that Baldoni and Lively share a mutual friend in the writer Liz Plank who co.