On August 14, sources told TMZ that Lively’s discomfort allegedly stemmed from a scene in which Baldoni’s character Ryle lifts her character Lily into the air. According to the tabloid’s anonymous sources, “Justin has a history of back problems and before lifting Blake, he went to his trainer on set and asked how much she weighed and how he could train to protect his back from injury.” Sources also claim that Lively had an issue with how long Baldoni allegedly lingered during a kissing scene between the two.
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Both Baldoni and Lively have pointed to creative differences during production. Baldoni argued that “there’s always going to be friction when you make a movie like this,” and said ELLE UK: “I believe that it is this friction that creates beautiful art.” Meanwhile, Lively told Hits Radio UK that she was in the mood to record Lana Del Rey‘s “Cherry” in the final cut. “They begged me to take that song out of the film,” she said, adding, “I wasn’t supposed to talk about it. They thought it was too charged and heavy.”
Lively also caused a stir when she said E! News on It ends with us Premiere that her husband Ryan Reynolds wrote the scene in which she and Baldoni’s characters meet. “The iconic rooftop scene was actually written by my husband. Nobody knows that now but you,” she said at the time. The actual screenwriter of the film, Christy Hall, said she didn’t know Reynolds had contributed dialogue to the sequence. “There were a few little flourishes that I hadn’t written, but I assumed they had been improvised on set,” Hall said People“But, as I said, there are moments that I think deserve to be honored. So I recognize the scene and I’m proud of it. And when those flourishes come from Ryan, I think that’s wonderful.”
Alleged discomfort and disagreement on set turned into a “rift among the filmmakers” during post-production, when two “different cuts of the film” emerged, sources said. The Hollywood ReporterLively, who was a producer on the film, reportedly commissioned her own cut of the film from the film’s additional editor. Shane Reid, a frequent collaboration with the actress and her husband. Reid was also the editor of Reynolds’ Deadpool and Wolverine, as well as Taylor Swift‘s music video “I Bet You Think About Me”, which Lively directed.
