Justin Baldoni Responds to Claims That It Ends With Us Glorifies Domestic Violence

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, glorifies domestic violence. Speaking to the Associated Press, , who stars as abusive husband Ryle Kincaid opposite Lily Bloom, said that critics are “are absolutely entitled to that opinion, and it makes perfect sense as to why they would feel that way.”He continued, “Look, we live in a culture where, unfortunately, too many things are glorified.

And we are fighting for attention, we're in an attention economy…and so it makes perfect sense that people would feel that way.”“Also, if anybody has had that real-life [domestic violence] experience, I can imagine how hard it would be to imagine their experience being in a romance novel,” he said. “To them I would just offer that we were very intentional in the making of this movie.”This statement comes amid that there was discord behind the scenes of the film adaptation of best-selling novel, It Ends With Us, which has also for mishandling the sensitive subject matter.

The book and movie follow Lily Bloom’s journey toward ending the generational cycle of domestic violence while also tracking another love story between Bloom and her childhood love, Atlas Corrigan (played in the film by Brandon Sklenar).No author can be as massively successful as Hoover without some backlash.Fans first began to suspect there was an issue between Baldoni and the rest of the cast when he didn't pose with anyone from the production at the film’s premiere on August 6.

After doing some digging, fans noticed Baldoni had been largely absent from previous press events and had seemingly been unfollowed by a majority of the cast and Hoover on social media.