Colleen Hoover’s best-selling romance novel It Ends With Us has over 200,000 reviews on “Amazon“, an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. What an impressive result! With this in mind, it was decided that this story should also be reflected on the big screen! This was confirmed by the author of the book herself, posting a video on the platform “Instagram“, expressing his delight at the cast, revealing that Blake Lively will be played by small-town florists. Namely, the main character Lily. However, not everyone is as excited as Hoover, Variety reports.
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If in the last year you have viewed “TikTok” literary corner using the hashtag #BookTok or have you seen the bestseller list, then you will definitely have already heard about this romantic book.
The award-winning romance was a huge success, with Hoover selling more than 20 million books, and It Ends With Us (selling 8.6 million copies in 2022 alone) was the best-selling print book of 2022, according to Variety, which more than 90 weeks were located “New York Times” on the bestseller list.
The book is about domestic violence, and in the video, Hoover shows fans the house her mother moved her family into when Hoover was just four years old. She praised her mother for “getting us out of a terrible situation” and bringing the family to a real home. Hoover has been open about her father’s abuse of her mother as the inspiration for “It Ends With Us.”
The New York Times bestseller tells the story of Lily, a woman in her 20s who has just moved to Boston to start her own business. Before long, she falls in love with a neurosurgeon named Ryle. Hoover has announced that her dream Lily will be played by Blake Lively!
“And then when I first met Justin Baldoni, who’s directing ‘It Ends With Us,’ I knew right away that I wanted him to play Rila. I knew he had what it took to play the character. And for good the news is – he will be Rail!”
She continued: “So we have our Ryle and our Lily. I think Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively have what it takes to bring these characters to life and I can’t wait for you to see it.”
However, not everyone is as excited as Hoover
Whether readers loved or hated the novel It Ends With Us, everyone seems to agree that Blake is not the right choice for Lily. Even those who adored the novel are just as furious about Blake’s casting. People are asking Blake to reconsider whether he really needs to be in the movie!
“Blake Lively as Lily Bloom in ‘It Ends With Us’ is confusing because the character is 23 in the book and Blake is 12 years older. Like they didn’t get someone age appropriate,” one person wrote on Twitter.
“Blake as Lily? Are you kidding me? Please stop this nonsense, who is going to watch this movie anyway?” someone else added.
Several fans write: “Blake Lively please don’t do this!”
“I’ve never been so disappointed in a casting until It Ends With Us,” admitted one fan. “What the hell just happened?”
As book lovers are wont to do, they had already made up their minds about which actor should play Lily and Ryle. Judging by the negative reaction, the main contender in the eyes of the fans was “Stranger Things” and “Fate: The Winx Saga” actress Abigail Cowen – mainly because the book describes Lily as a 23-year-old woman with red hair and blue eyes.
