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Blake Lively and Jenny Slate were closed for their most emotional It ends with us scene together.
In the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s book, Lively plays Lily Bloom, a florist who befriends Allys at the same time she embarks on a toxic relationship with Allys’ brother Ryle (Justin Baldoni, also director).
Near the end of the movie, when Lily tells Allysa about how violent Ryle is and her pregnancy, Slate’s character offers her support and tells her not to get back into the relationship. The key scene proved to be emotional for the actresses who filmed it.
“You made it so easy for me. I was just watching you,” Lively, 36, tells Slate, 42, in an interview with PEOPLE.
Adds Lively: “I was like… ‘I’m not going to be emotional. We had so much emotion, I’m just going to play it pretty stoic.’ Then she came, and I was like— I was dripping with snot, full of snot! [I was] really trying to keep it as much as possible.”
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“For both of us,” says Slate, “there was an authentic connection where you know you’re the character, but you can take advantage of watching the other person and really see the content of this story that she’s telling me really takes apart from me. I didn’t feel that there is any work involved in performing it.”
Lively says she “felt so much love and trust and safety and connection with” Slate on set.
Slate, meanwhile, was nervous: “It’s Blake — I don’t want to eat it in front of her! I want to do a good job.” But Lively praises the comedian’s performance in the It ends with us.
“[Allysa is] an easy character who could very easily, in other hands, be someone who brings levity or comedy,” says Lively, “but the most emotional scene in this entire movie and the most emotional performance in this entire movie is hers.”
She adds that Slate is “someone who really does everything. We’re so lucky to have you in this movie and in real life.”
“It’s true,” Lively tells Slate, adding to her candid monologue scene: “People cheer. In the movie, people cheer when she does what she does.”
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Of the film’s themes, which come together in this particular scene, Lively says, “Hopefully watching a movie like this and then a story like this will remind people that there is a way out. There can be a way out, always.”
Additionally, Slate feels “so lucky” that the friendship of the supporting characters shines through the film.
“That’s one of the driving forces behind this project,” she says, adding, “Getting to work with Blake and building that relationship on this film is something I’ll always be grateful for. Allysa and Lily have a real connection, between people, and that’s was such a gift that Blake and I were lucky too.”
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