It’s been an odd few weeks for Blake Lively. Since its August 9 launch date, her film It Ends With Us has grow to be her highest-grossing movie so far—incomes greater than $242 million—whereas inspiring intense offscreen hypothesis about alleged behind-the-scenes points.
Over the weekend, because the actor spent her birthday amid star-studded firm at Taylor Swift’s home in Rhode Island, her sister Robyn celebrated the day by praising her youthful sibling on social media. On Sunday, Robyn shared a number of photographs of herself and Blake, writing, “That’s my bday queen right there!” Alongside footage of the pair posing on the seashore, taking selfies, and smiling as youngsters, Robyn wrote: “I love this girl, my sister, my best friend, my little piggy back buddy! You are one of the best humans I know. HAPPY birthday sissy britches!”
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The elder Lively, greatest identified for 1989’s Teen Witch, additionally performs a small position in the big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 bestseller. Controversy has surrounded the film since Blake and her co-star/director Justin Baldoni seemingly averted one another on the movie’s New York premiere. Lively additionally doesn’t comply with Baldoni again on social media (nor does Hoover or fellow solid member Jenny Slate), and he or she hasn’t straight talked about him in press for the venture.
While rumors about what triggered the alleged rift abound, Lively has discovered her popularity known as into query over the notion that she has downplayed the movie’s darker themes of home violence in interviews, a subject Baldoni steadily mentions throughout promotional obligations, whereas apparently utilizing the venture as a possibility to increase her personal manufacturers. After the backlash, Lively included a hyperlink to the The National Domestic Violence Hotline on her Instagram Story and known as It Ends With Us “a story about the female experience.”
The following day, Sony Pictures chief Tony Vinciquerra praised Lively for “advancing the conversation around domestic violence,” telling The Hollywood Reporter, partially: “Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this remarkable movie, working selflessly from the start to ensure that such an important subject matter was handled with care. Audiences love the movie. We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.”
On August 20, Brandon Sklenar—who performs Lively’s different love curiosity, Atlas, within the movie—tried to “address all this stuff swirling online” through Instagram. “Colleen and the women of this cast stand for hope, perseverance, and for women choosing a better life for themselves,” he started. “Vilifying the women who put so much of their heart and soul into making this film because they believe so strongly in its message seems counterproductive and detracts from what this film is about. It is, in fact, the opposite of the point. What may or may not have happened behind the scenes does not and hopefully should not detract from what our intentions were in making this film. It’s been disheartening to see the amount of negativity being projected online.”
In the feedback part of Robyn’s birthday put up, one consumer wrote: “Blake is a lovely human being!! I hope she knows that the multitudes of people who love her is so much greater than the negative voices. Happy birthday Blake!!” Her sister replied, “Thank you for this,” alongside the raised-hands and red-heart emojis.