It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover defends the casting of Blake Lively amid backlash about her playing the movie adaptation's Lily Bloom.
Colleen Hoover defends the casting of Blake Lively as Lily Bloom in the movie adaptation of It Ends With Us. Released in 2016, the book has become a massive hit for the author, selling over one million copies worldwide and getting translated into 20 languages. In 2019, a film adaptation of It Ends With Us was optioned by Justin Baldoni, who not only directs the project but also stars in it as Ryle Kincaid, Lily's abusive partner.
"Back when I wrote 'It Ends With Us,' the new adult was very popular. You were writing college-age characters. That's what I was contracted to do. I made Lily very young. I didn't know that neurosurgeons went to school for 50 years. There's not a 20-something neurosurgeon. As I started making this movie, I'm like, we need to age them out, because I messed up. So that's my fault.
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