Blake Lively’s ‘It Ends With Us’ banned in Qatar

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Blake Lively‘s new romantic drama It Ends With Us has reportedly been banned in Qatar.According to the Los Angeles Times, the country’s censorship committee rejected the movie over kissing scenes in the film.The romantic drama stars Lively as a flower shop owner who gets caught in a love triangle with her abusive partner and her childhood sweetheart.

It is based on the 2016 bestselling book by Colleen Hoover.Its ban comes after a host of Hollywood films including Eternals, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Lightyear and West Side Story, all of which contain LGBTQ+ characters or themes, were all previously rejected in Qatar.Meanwhile, Ryan Reynolds and Lively recently became the first married couple to top the US box office since Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.The former’s Deadpool & Wolverine is currently top after clocking up $494.3million (£385.9million) domestically since its July 26 release.Lively’s It Ends With Us, which was released in cinemas last Friday (August 9), is just behind after its opening weekend.Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Reynolds wrote a scene in Lively’s It Ends With Us.

The scene in question sees Lively’s character Lily first meet Justin Baldoni’s Ryle in the film, whom she eventually marries.

Baldoni also directed the film.“The iconic rooftop scene, my husband actually wrote it. Nobody knows that, but you now,” she told E!