"It Ends With Us" star Justin Baldoni hopes romance movie can create change: "We need to end the cycle"

“It Ends With Us” star Justin Baldoni hopes romance movie can create change: “We need to end the cycle”

Benjamin Hughes

The highly anticipated movie “It Ends With Us,” which is an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s popular novel, is putting a spotlight on domestic violence.

The movie follows a florist named Lily, played by Blake Lively, who’s chasing her dream to open up her own shop. Co-star and director Justin Baldoni plays Ryle, a neurosurgeon who seems like a nice guy, but turns abusive. Baldoni didn’t intend on casting himself in the movie, but it was an email from Hoover that encouraged him to take on the role of Ryle.

“I was looking for movies that could be commercial and speak to the human experience,” he said. “I had never read a romance novel. By the end of the book, I couldn’t even read the text on the page because I was crying so much.”

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