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An insider is sharing behind-the-scenes details of what helped fuel the on-set drama between Blake Lively and her co-star and director Justin Baldoni while filming ‘It Ends With Us.’
The rumors about troubles for the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book have run rampant since the film’s New York premiere on August 6, when Baldoni was not photographed with his fellow cast members.
But now, an insider exclusively tells DailyMail.com what they saw of Lively on set during the filming, claiming that ‘everyone was a little bit afraid of Blake.’ Baldoni, meanwhile, was derided as a ‘woke and performative feminist.’
Lively ‘wasn’t mean – she was just so effortlessly rude,’ the source confided.
There ‘wasn’t outward feuding or fighting’ but the 36-year-old actress was ‘so extraordinarily opiniated’ and ‘had really strong feelings about things’ that it caused great stress and tension on the set.
There was tension on set whenever Lively was around, claims the source, because she wasn’t shy about having workers ‘wait on her.’
There was a ‘palpable sense that everyone was a little bit afraid of Blake,’ the insider said.
‘I got this impression from Justin that he was just really, really stressed and fatigued about this constant inability to control the project he was making… so much so that when you’d ask him questions, he’d be like, “Well just ask Blake”… because when Blake got there she would have a lot of really strong thoughts and feelings.’
On the first day back from shooting – after production had been waylaid by nine months of writer’s strike, workers on set were desperate – dipping into their 401Ks, losing their houses, etc.
The insider felt it was ‘tone deaf’ for Lively to bring her kids to set that day so they could set up a booth to raise money for ‘sick kids and horses’ amid the crew’s own struggles.
‘There’s nothing bad about having your kids be a part of your workplace, or having your kids be interested in activism… but it’s hard not to have it feel insulting and performative.’
