Taylor Swift was reportedly a significant inspiration on the set of It Ends With Us.
Justin Baldoni directed the 2024 adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, starring Blake Full of life as protagonist Lily Bloom reverse himself as Ryle Kincaid. The movie chronicled the characters’ abusive relationship.
Months after the film got here out in August 2024, Full of life sued Baldoni for sexual harassment and making an attempt to destroy her fame. He denied the claims earlier than submitting a defamation lawsuit in opposition to the actress, name-dropping Swift. In his court docket petition obtained by Us Weekly, Baldoni included a textual content message screenshot the place a Sony government allegedly revealed that Full of life personally known as Swift to “approve” using her tune “My Tears Ricochet” within the trailer. (The 2 ladies have been pals since 2015 and the pop star can be godmother to Full of life and husband Ryan Reynolds’ youngsters.)
Insiders, nevertheless, say that Swift had no “artistic involvement” within the movie’s manufacturing.
Regardless of Taylor Swift’s identify being talked about in Blake Full of life and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing authorized saga, a number of sources inform Us Weekly that the pop star was not concerned within the manufacturing of It Ends With Us. “Taylor has at all times been Blake’s buddy, however Taylor doesn’t have any involvement within the case. She wasn’t a part of the […]
“Taylor has at all times been Blake’s buddy, however Taylor doesn’t have any involvement within the case. She wasn’t a part of the film,” a supply solely instructed Us Weekly in February 2025. “Taylor was not a producer on the movie and had no artistic involvement.”
A second insider, in the meantime, instructed Us that Swift by no means noticed the movie — or “a single scene” — till the film hit theaters.
Maintain scrolling to learn what the It Ends With Us forged mentioned and claimed about Swift’s affect:
Justin Baldoni Says He ‘Had Nothing to Do’ With Utilizing Her Tune in Trailer
Swift’s 2020 tune “My Tears Ricochet” is prominently featured within the trailer for It Ends With Us.
“That’s all Blake,” Baldoni instructed Leisure Tonight in Could 2024. “I don’t know [how she did it] however Blake is aware of everyone. Her and Taylor are superb pals. I’m so glad that they agreed to have a tune within the trailer, it’s so good for the film.
Blake Full of life Explains Utilizing ‘My Tears Ricochet’ in Trailer
In June 2024, Full of life revealed how she chosen the Folklore tune within the trailer.
“Them collectively made loads of sense,” she mentioned at Hoover’s Guide Bonanza pageant. “Colleen is ready to inform one thing that’s deeply private and intimate however is ready to resonate with so many individuals. And Taylor, she’s such an unbelievable author. She writes from such private experiences and vulnerability.”
Full of life later instructed CBS Mornings that she “went backwards and forwards” with Sony so as to add the 2020 tune within the trailer.
“It’s an enormous, stunning summer season film, but it surely’s truly a fairly intimate film,” Full of life mentioned, claiming it was a small-budget venture. “We by no means thought, like, our eyeballs weren’t that massive to suppose that we might put one in all her songs within the film. It needed to be and there was a second within the film that was lacking this emotional gravitas and, as quickly as we put the tune in, I used to be like, ‘That’s the spot’ as a result of it’s the second in [Lily’s] life the place one thing occurs and … that modifications the course of her life.”
Based on Full of life “nothing would have” punctuated the second higher than “My Tears Ricochet.”
Blake Full of life and Taylor Swift’s friendship is as sturdy as ever amid the It Ends With Us star’s authorized drama with Justin Baldoni. Hypothesis of a rift between Swift, 35, and Full of life, 37, started when a report claimed that the Eras Tour performer had “taken a step again” from her pal after she was apparently […]
Blake Full of life Says Taylor Swift Was ‘With Me on This Expertise The Entire Time’
Throughout an August 2024 panel for the movie, Full of life mentioned “there have been loads of favors and begging” for tune utilization since there wasn’t a big price range to work with within the first place. The moderator then particularly requested whether or not Full of life persuaded Swift to conform to license the tune for the trailer.
“Truthfully, she was with me on this expertise the entire time,” Full of life mentioned, per social media footage. “She actually lived this with me, so she’s an individual who exhibits up for you. I’m so grateful to have that love and that assist.”
Blake Full of life Says She Reunited With ‘I Wager You Assume About Me’ Editor on the Film
Full of life, who made her directorial debut on Swift’s “I Wager You Assume About Me” music video off 2021’s Crimson (Taylor’s Model), labored with a few of the similar crew on It Ends With Us.
“We had an unbelievable music supervisor, Season Kent, and one in all our editors Shane Reid who, enjoyable truth, was my editor on Taylor’s music video I directed,” Full of life instructed the UK’s CapitalFM in August 2024. “And I used to be obsessive about him, I used to be like, ‘This man is superb!’ He’d by no means edited a film earlier than, he’d simply completed Deadpool and Wolverine [with my husband] and he got here on and helped us with this one. He has unbelievable style in music — and we share the identical composer from Deadpool and Wolverine. There’s loads of sharing occurring.”
UPDATE 1/16/25 at 12:43 p.m. ET: Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios filed a $400 million lawsuit in opposition to It Ends With Us costar Blake Full of life and her publicist, Leslie Sloane, on Thursday, January 16. Within the 179-page submitting obtained by Us Weekly, Baldoni claimed that Full of life was “decided” to make him a “real-life villain in her story.” […]
Isabela Ferrer Claims Taylor Swift Had a Hand in Her Casting
Ferrer performs the youthful model of Full of life’s Lily in It Ends With Us, later telling Further on the August 2024 premiere that Swift helped her land the function.
“She was a useful a part of the audition, which I discovered later once I bought it,” Ferrer mentioned. “And that rocked my world.”
Justin Baldoni Echoes Isabela Ferrer’s Casting Story
In his personal interview with Further that month, Baldoni revealed that he “confirmed [Isabela’s] casting tape” to Full of life and Swift.
“I used to be casting and I had truly introduced in and confirmed her casting tape to Blake and Taylor they usually had been each like, ‘Sure, her!’” Baldoni recalled to Further. “And that’s a real story, however she simply blew me away.”
