So to me, um,
it wasn’t. I didn’t look at any one thing in her life
I think she’s so much more than this thing that happened to her.
And, yes,
it can. It can change the course of her.
These are answers after interviewers prompted her by saying,
how do you feel about participating in a movie
that touches so heavily on a topic like this? Okay. Life.
But it doesn’t define her.
She defines herself. And that,
to me, is really,
really beautiful. She’s not a victim and she’s not a survivor.
Well, she may be a victim and she may be a survivor.
She’s also multitudes. And I think that, um,
to not be defined by the men in her life,
whether it be her father,
whether it be this beautiful love that she has,
or whether it be this toxic love that she has,
she’s never defined by the men in her life.
And I think that that’s a beautiful story
for any gender and for any age.
Um, so, yeah,
it’s so much more than. While that thing is very big and very potent,
and there’s a lot of responsibility and care
that that needs to be handled with.
So never to diminish that,
but this movie is so much more than any one thing.
Interesting.
Okay. I mean, yeah. Yeah.
I don’t know. She just wants people to go see the movie.
I don’t know her. I don’t know her own backstory,
but Again, I feel like for situations like this,
they need people on set, writers who have gone through it.
I think that’s why people love baby reindeer,
because he actually went through that,
and it was so raw and real and people related. Yeah.
Um, Blake,
a lot of people had criticism for her during the press of this film
because of how she was acting.
And five days after the film came out,
she released onto her Instagram story, um,
something about seeking resources for domestic abuse.
Wait. Hmm.
Wait. What?
She shared, um,
she shared a message to her followers saying,
thank you to everyone who came out to the show.
That people want to see films about women and multitudes.
We hold. Right.
This is a story of the female experience
at the highest highs and lowest lows.
We are so proud of it. She can use.
We have been in Celebration of this film
and of getting a message so important out there to the masses.
And what she. She included, um,
resources in her Instagram stories for people.
She’s like, put down your flowers and pick up your phones.
Yeah.
Is that what’s the issue?
This is. It’s not an issue.
This is something just based on questions. This is his response.
The one thing you want people to take away from this project,
what would you say? Hope. Hmm.
That everybody has the ability to end a cycle that they didn’t ask for.
We Can all say it ends with us in our life.
The one thing, you want people to take that away?
I think so as well. This is
someone, um,
asked him about what it was like playing, um,
an abuser. And this is he.
He seems just to me,
he seems very genuine and like wanting to tell this story correctly.
I think of the scene show
gender based violence. I think that was very hard for me.
I almost had to step out of my body.
There were a lot of times
even thinking about it is hard.
There were a lot of times where I would have to go privately
into a room and just cry
or shake it out
and try to get him out of me and that energy out of me. Cause
it’s too real. And there are, uh.
There.
There are too many people
that are the real life Lily blooms of the world
that have to deal with that every single day.
And I wanted it to be as real as possible.
And yet it was. It was.
It was very hard to shoot those scenes.
But luckily the only way it was possible is,
you know, I had an incredible intimacy coordinator,
I had an incredible stunt coordinator.
Both of them were women. And then there was Blake.
And then there was Blake, who.
Honestly, between those two women,
they re,
uh. I’m not happy.
Yeah. Uh.
And in terms of on A movie set, like,
literally any sort of, like,
physical exertion is a stunt. Okay.
Like, somebody just, like,
gently falling to the floor.
That’s. That’s a stunt.
I. We’ve said spoilers already,
so I hope this is okay, but there’s a part where, like,
he pushes her down the stairs,
and then it cuts to black,
and I gasped so loud. It was really embarrassing in the theater,
but, I mean,
it was a scary. Yeah,
that’s. That’s the point of the film is that the, like,
the way that it’s in my brain,
Justin Baldoni is the one who made these choices.
But it could be Blake, it could be Colleen the way the movie,
and the book, too,
is done is it, like,
gaslights the viewer into.
Into thinking that it was an accident or that,
um, or that it could have been an accident
or that we don’t really know what happened.
Because that’s what, when you’re in an abusive relationship,
you gaslight yourself into staying until, like, no,
he’s not like,
he’s not like that. Yeah.
And. And the.
The movie does have a very beautiful and beautiful,
it’s disturbing sequence at the end
where she realizes what has gone on.
And it, and it shows clips of, like,
what actually happened in those scenes where they were.
They were more, like, ambiguous, blurry.
Yeah. Like,
it cut to black. Interesting.
Yeah, it showed the stairs. Yeah.
Up to the point where it gets like,
Super serious. Like,
even the audience, we believe that it was an accident.
We believe him. And.
And we see how easy it is to fall into that trap.
Like, she doesn’t want to become her mom,
but eventually she does. And it.
It’s so easy to fall into that trap. And.
And that really. That hit me so hard.
It’s like, you know,
It just happens. It’s not anything.
We’re like, oh,
my god, girl,
what are you doing? It’s like we were on that journey with her. And, like,
we believed him, too.
Yeah, we believed him, too.
He was a good guy. You were blinded,
like the audience. Yeah.
It’s pretty interesting. Yeah.