‘I Really Wanted To Make Sure That I Delivered That:’ Blake Lively And Jenny Slate Open Up Details From The Book 'It Ends With Us' They Prioritized

Interview with Blake Lively and Jenny Slate

Transcript

00:00when you guys were reading the book was there a line or a detail that you like wanted to make sure

00:04made it into the film the way colleen writes is like fan favorite lines so you know like okay

00:10this is a you're not like i hope i guess you know like there there are some like greatest hits um

00:15but also it was just more about capturing the spirit of um of these people and capturing the

00:21heart of these people and um doing it in the most authentic way and we were all given um a level of

00:28like uh freedom to inhabit the characters um in a way that felt most authentic and real and raw and

00:36honest and i think you feel that like we're not trying to do like a caricature of something we

00:41think someone might want we're really just trying to make these people as living and breathing and

00:46real as like your friends and your loved ones as as possible the moment where alissa walks in

00:54and meets lily like to me it's in that moment and also like to relieve a little bit of pressure to

01:00just you're like i don't want to disappoint the fans which is like a very real thing the fact that it's

01:04fleeting and storytelling and sign me up wonderful thanks you can feel in the writing in the book

01:10that like there's something between these two people and i really wanted to make sure that i

01:15delivered that and that um the audience would be able to feel that alissa is refreshment and support

01:22for lily as she goes through darkness and and light