The drama surrounding "It Ends With Us" has been all over social media since the film came out on August 9th, and now, an old interview is circulating that paints Blake Lively in a fairly unflattering light.
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00:00The drama surrounding It Ends With Us has been all over social media since the film
00:05came out on August 9. And now, an old interview is circulating that paints Blake Lively in
00:10a fairly unflattering light. While Lively and her co-star, Parker Posey, were promoting
00:152016's Cafe Society, they sat down with journalist Kirstie Flaa, who posted the entire exchange
00:21to YouTube, calling the clip,
00:23"...the Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job."
00:26Lively was newly pregnant during the interview, and Flaa congratulates the star on her little
00:30bump, at which point Lively responds,
00:33"...Congrats on your little bump."
00:36She and Posey go on to make jokes about bumps on their bodies, but it also gets a little
00:41weirder from there. Asked about the costumes in the film, Lively says,
00:45"...Everyone wants to talk about the clothes, but I wonder if they would ask the men about
00:48the clothes."
00:49Then, she and Posey go off on a tangent, without Flaa participating, about the overall design
00:54of the movie. It's definitely awkward.
00:57"...It's not just the women that have the clothes."
01:00As Flaa writes in the video's description,
01:02"...Is it not okay to congratulate someone on their pregnancy or to ask another woman
01:06about costumes she's wearing in a film?"
01:08Social media reactions to the interview are definitely mixed, with some fans defending
01:13the Gossip Girl star, while others are using it as evidence that she's behind the alleged
01:18It Ends With Us drama. One ex-user wrote,
01:20People defending Blake Lively here are wild. Her pregnancy at this point was announced.
01:25The full video is far worse than this clip, as Blake refuses to acknowledge the interviewer
01:29for most of the interview.
01:30"...Kirstie Flaa is better than me. I woulda cussed Blake out on camera."
01:35Another ex-user agreed, writing,
01:36"...The fact she mostly ignored Kirstie to have a conversation with her co-actress adds
01:40insult to injury."
01:42Not everyone thought Lively was at fault here, though. Another user posted a lengthy thread
01:47that began,
01:48Few things I hate more than clout chasers like Kirstie Flaa jumping on hate bandwagons
01:53when that's the trend of the week.
01:55Another user pointed out that Lively was correct about the double standard, posting,
01:59"...2016 was the height of women in Hollywood refusing to answer sexist and invasive questions
02:04such as comments on baby bumps, relationships, and costuming when those same questions were
02:08not asked of men."
02:10So why is everyone so laser-focused on Blake Lively's behavior during press tours, and
02:15what does it have to do with her latest film, It Ends With Us?
02:18Lively stars in the film as florist Lily Blossom Bloom, opposite Justin Baldoni, who both directed
02:23the film and played Lily's love interest, Ryle Kincaid. Unfortunately, Lily soon discovers
02:28that Ryle is abusive, echoing the relationship between her parents, and has to find a way
02:33to end the cycle of generational trauma and abuse, particularly when the two have a daughter.
02:38The drama appears to be centered on an alleged rift between Lively and Baldoni, as the two
02:43have done basically zero press together, and Baldoni also seemed to be isolated from
02:47the rest of the main cast during the press tour.
02:50Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Lively and Baldoni had a falling out, so Lively brought
02:54in her own editor to recut the film, and People reports her husband Ryan Reynolds rewrote
02:59one key scene without the screenwriter knowing about it.
03:03Baldoni has even reportedly hired a PR crisis manager, as new information about the troubled
03:07production continues to leak out.
03:10It Ends With Us is in theaters now.