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Justin Baldoni has hired Johnny Depp's crisis manager amid the reported 'It Ends With Us' cast drama. Baldoni has hired veteran PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan who represented Johnny Depp during the Amber Heard trial. The news comes amid the reported rift and fallout between the cast specifically star Blake Lively and director and star Baldoni during the release of 'It Ends With Us,' the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 hit book.
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00:00Justin Baldoni has hired Johnny Depp's crisis manager amid the reported It Ends With Us cast drama.
00:07Baldoni has hired veteran PR crisis manager Melissa Nathan, who represented Johnny Depp during the Amber Heard trial.
00:14The news comes amid the reported rift and fallout between the cast, specifically star Blake Lively and director and star Baldoni,
00:21during the release of It Ends With Us, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's 2016 hit book.
00:27Chatter spiked when fans noticed Baldoni's absence from joint press events
00:31and the lack of photos of Lively and Baldoni together anywhere since the film was made.
00:36Some also pointed out that neither Lively, Hoover, nor the rest of the cast follow Baldoni on Instagram,
00:41though they all follow each other and he follows them.
00:44Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the post-production stage,
00:50wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged.
00:52Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reed, who is an editor on Deadpool and Wolverine,
00:58according to multiple sources.
01:01The hiring of a crisis PR manager comes as Baldoni has been the subject of negative headlines
01:05over allegations that he made Lively uncomfortable on set.
01:09For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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