Justin Baldoni has addressed criticism that his new film, It Ends With Us, glorifies domestic violence.
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Speaking to the Associated Press, the actor and director, who stars as abusive husband Ryle Kincaid opposite Blake Lively’s Lily Bloom, said that critics are “are absolutely entitled to that opinion, and it makes perfect sense as to why they would feel that way.”
He continued, “Look, we live in a culture where, unfortunately, too many things are glorified. And we are fighting for attention, we’re in an attention economy…and so it makes perfect sense that people would feel that way.”
“Also, if anybody has had that real-life [domestic violence] experience, I can imagine how hard it would be to imagine their experience being in a romance novel,” he said. “To them I would just offer that we were very intentional in the making of this movie.”
