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Many ideas for the film, he added, came from Lively.
“She was extremely involved and really made the movie better,” Baldoni said. Access to Hollywood August 7. “There have been many occasions where I have honestly just tried to step aside and let her take the lead.”
However, colleagues don’t always agree. And Lively noted that there were sometimes creative differences in the filmmaking process, including whether to keep Lana Del Reythe song “Cherry” in the movie.
“They begged me to take that song out of the movie,” he said. Gossip Girl the former student said in a recent interview with Hits Radio UK, without naming names. “I shouldn’t say it, but because they felt it was too heavy and too loaded and things were still going well with Ryle at that point, so you don’t want to feel that load.”
As Lively saw it, “The moment Atlas walks in, things are charged and heavy,” she continued. “There’s conflict, there’s pain, there’s turmoil, there’s tension. Because you’re like, ‘Oh my god. My soulmate, the one who got away, this person who haunts me in everything I do and everywhere I go is here now and we still have that connection.’ And you can be deeply in love with this person, but this person walks in and your insides are going to be a mess.”
